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Fast Forward Ukraine Jewish Group Loses Funding Over Russia Criticism
An organization representing Russian-speaking Jews cut funding for its Kiev office because of the office head’s criticism of Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, or EAJC, in February stopped funding its Kiev office, which is run by Josef Zissels, he told JTA on Thursday. “I don’t know for sure why they stopped the…
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Fast Forward 15 Teens Win Tikkun Olam Awards
Fifteen U.S. teens were recognized for their volunteerism with Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards. Each will receive an honorarium of $36,000 from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. The winners and their programs can be found here: http://www.dillerteenawards.org/award-recipients/2014-recipients. “Acknowledged…
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Fast Forward German Teacher Caught Stealing 10 Victims Items From Auschwitz
A teacher from Germany was arrested at Auschwitz after being caught with items that belonged to Holocaust victims. The 47-year-old educator on Tuesday admitted to taking the items from an area where possessions of the former concentration camp inmates had been stored during World War II. He said he wanted to show the items to…
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Fast Forward Malls Bar Dead Sea Makeup Kiosks Over $5K Wrinkle Cream Scam
Kiosks selling Dead Sea beauty products were removed from all Westfield malls in New Zealand in the wake of a TV investigation exposing its sales practices on elderly and vulnerable shoppers. Kiosks in several malls in New Zealand were closed down as a result of an expose on the “cynical” methods used by young Israeli…
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Fast Forward Canada’s Lev Tahor Settle in Guatemala
Members of the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor are slowly leaving Canada for Guatemala, effectively ending the group’s tumultuous situation in Quebec and Ontario. All phone numbers for Lev Tahor leaders have been disconnected, according to BlackburnNews.com. The landlord at the location in southwestern Ontario to where sect members fled last fall from Quebec also…
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Fast Forward World B’nei Akiva Chief Slammed for Bloody ‘300 Foreskins’ Revenge Call
The secretary general of the World B’nei Akiva movement is under pressure to resign after he called for the murder of three Israeli teens to be avenged with blood. Rabbi Noam Perel made the call in a Facebook post on Monday, hours after the bodies of three Israeli teens were discovered in a field north…
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Fast Forward Jewish Analyst Pedro Brieger Justifies Killing of Israeli Teens
Argentine Jewish leaders slammed CNN in Spanish contributor Pedro Brieger for justifying the killing of three Israeli teens in a commentary on Argentina television. “Every occupation provokes resistance of all kinds, peaceful and violent,” said Brieger, who is Jewish, in a commentary that aired Monday on public TV. It was the same day that the…
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Israel-Bound Jews Say Adieu to France
Hundreds of soon-to-be immigrants to Israel gathered at one of the French capital’s largest synagogues for a sendoff ceremony celebrating their departure. Some 700 people attended the ceremony Wednesday at the Synagogue de Tournelles, which began with a moment of silence in memory of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach and Gilad Shaar, the Israeli teenagers whose…
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