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Fast Forward Stephan Kramer Named Chief of AJC Europe Office on Anti-Semitism
Stephan Kramer, a Jewish leader in Germany, was named director of the American Jewish Committee’s new European Office on Anti-Semitism. Kramer, the general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany for 10 years, will head an initiative that aims to raise awareness about and help combat anti-Semitism. Concerns about the problem in Europe…
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Fast Forward Mother of Alan Gross Dies of Cancer
The mother of Alan Gross, the Jewish-American contractor imprisoned in Cuba, has died. Evelyn Gross died Wednesday in Plano, Texas, according to a statement by Emily Black, a spokeswoman for the Gross family. She had long been suffering from cancer. She was 92. “This is a devastating blow for Alan and our family,” Alan Gross’…
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Fast Forward Russian Investigators Accuse Jewish Ukraine Oligarch of War Crimes
Russian investigators accused Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian Jewish billionaire and district governor, of murder and human rights violations. The accusation came Wednesday in a statement by Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee of Russia, a federal body that investigates serious crimes. Besides murder, Kolomoisky is suspected of using “prohibited means and methods of…
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Fast Forward Presbyterian Panel Approves Israel Divestment Proposal
A committee of the Presbyterian Church (USA) passed a resolution endorsing divestment from three U.S. companies that “profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.” The Middle East Issues Committee in 45-20 vote on Tuesday at the church’s 221st General Assembly advanced the measure to divest from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions. The resolution likely will…
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Fast Forward Black Fashion Student Sues Shomrim Hasidic Security Patrol Over Brooklyn Beating
A gay black man who says he was beaten by a group of Hasidic men in Brooklyn sued five of his alleged assailants and a local Jewish volunteer security patrol. Taj Patterson, 22, who was brutally beaten on Dec. 1 in the Williamsburg section, filed the lawsuit Monday in Brooklyn Supreme Court against the five…
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Fast Forward Ex-Met Council CFO Herbert Friedman Gets Four Months in $9M Kickback Scheme
The former chief financial officer of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty was sentenced to four months in prison for his role in a $9 million kickback scheme. The sentence of Herbert Friedman, 80, was announced Tuesday in a news release from the New York State attorney general’s office. Friedman had pleaded guilty last…
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Fast Forward South African Rabbi Steps Down Over $4K Blackmail of Other Rabbi
A South African rabbi was jailed and resigned from his synagogue after attempting to blackmail another rabbi. Cape Town Rabbi Bryan Opert stepped down from the Milnerton Hebrew Congregation and was jailed for 48 hours after trying to blackmail Rabbi Ruben Suiza, the longtime head of the city’s Sephardic community, Haaretz reported. The case was…
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Fast Forward Canada Public Split on Middle East Conflict
Canadians were evenly split in their support for Israel and the Palestinians, according to a new poll. The survey by the Toronto-based Forum Research found that 17 percent of respondents sided with Israel in the Middle East conflict, while 16 percent favored the Palestinians. Fully 64 percent said they lean toward neither side, and 3…
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