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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Breaks Guinness Record for Largest Shabbat Dinner
More than 2,000 people set the Guinness World Record for “largest Shabbat dinner” in Tel Aviv. At an event Friday evening hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch and White City Shabbat, a Tel Aviv organization that hosts and coordinates Shabbat meals, 2,226 people gathered for what was billed as the largest Shabbat dinner ever. An official representative of…
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Fast Forward Spain Village Makes Ancient Jewish Cemetery Accessible to Disabled
A Spanish municipality launched a project which aims to make one of the country’s largest Jewish cemeteries accessible to disabled people. Work on the accessibility project began Wednesday at the Jewish cemetery of Lucena in the autonomous province of Cordoba in Spain’s south, Europa Press reported. The project, which was first announced earlier this year…
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Fast Forward Sweden Vows To Bar Neo-Nazis From Schools
Swedish neo-Nazi activists will not gain access to schools, the country’s education minister said amid a public debate on a far-right party’s request to expose pupils to its materials. Minister Jan Bjorklund said on June 11 that “we all agree, that to let pure Nazi parties meet with our young people will not happen,” during…
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Fast Forward Brussels Museum Gunman Was No ‘Lone Wolf’
France’s interior minister said he believes the Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium should not be considered a “lone wolf.” Bernard Cazeneuve made the statement on Tuesday during an address before the French Senate about Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old alleged radical Muslim whom French and Belgian authorities believe committed…
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Fast Forward Methodist Pension Board Divests From Company That Aids Israeli Occupation and Prisons
The United Methodist Church’s pension board is selling its shares in a British company that supplies security equipment to Israel for use in prisons and in the West Bank. A press release issued by United Methodist Kairos Response, a movement within the church that advocates on behalf of Palestinian Christians, said the decision to divest…
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Fast Forward 4,000 Moscow Jews Fete Russia Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar on 50th Birthday
Approximately 4,000 Jews attended Moscow’s first “Festival of Judaism” which organizers planned as a celebration of the 50th birthday of Chief Russian Rabbi Berel Lazar. The festival was held on June 8, two days after Lazar’s birthday, at the Jewish Museum And Tolerance Center in Moscow and featured 50 stations where staff and volunteers presented…
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Fast Forward Russian Jewish Students Get Shavuot Do-Over Test Date
Russia’s education ministry has agreed to provide Jewish students an alternative date for a matriculation exam which took place on the Shavuot holiday. The concession was announced last week in a letter addressed to Berel Lazar, a chief rabbi of Russia. “Students and graduates unable to take the Unified State Exam for religious reasons may…
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Fast Forward Is French Far Right Patching ‘Anti-Semitic’ Family Spat?
The website of France’s far-right National Front party has resumed offering access to the blog of party founder Jean-Marie le Pen, after the deletion of his speeches because of their allegedly anti-Semitic references. The party’s website used to host directly videos of interviews on current affairs with Le Pen, but since Thursday its homepage features…
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