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Fast Forward Convicted Australian Chabad Camp Molester Gets Suspended Sentence
A dual Australian-American citizen avoided prison time in the assault of a teenage boy at a Chabad-run camp in the 1980s. Daniel “Gug” Hayman, who lives in Los Angeles, was given a 19-month suspended sentence in Sydney on Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty in May to indecently assaulting the 14-year-old in the woods at Camp…
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Fast Forward Holocaust-Denying Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson Denied Australia Visa
Australia canceled the visa of a British Catholic bishop who has denied that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. Richard Williamson was scheduled to speak in rural Australia this month but his visa was canceled this week, the Australian Jewish News reported. The Australian Jewish News said it had contacted the Department of Immigration…
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Fast Forward Israeli Sports Minister Defends Ban on Palestinian Soccer Players
Israel, looking to avoid censure at the FIFA Congress in Brazil on Wednesday, has defended its arrest of a Palestine national team player, telling the world soccer body he was a courier for Islamist militants. Sameh Fares Mohammad had intended to “harm the state of Israel and its citizens”, Israeli Sports Minister Limor Livnat wrote…
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Fast Forward Reform Rabbis Join Push To End North Carolina Same-Sex Marriage Ban
The Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis joined a lawsuit against North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriages. The lawsuit, which was filed April 28 by the United Church of Christ and several same-sex couples, alleges that North Carolina’s Amendment One and other state laws make it illegal for clergy to officiate at a same-sex…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wants Oversight of Orthodox E. Ramapo School Board
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pressuring the state Department of Education to ensure oversight of a troubled school district run by a majority haredi Orthodox school board. The East Ramapo Central School district encompasses a suburban area where haredi Orthodox Jews, who do not enroll their children in public schools, make up more than…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teenager Wearing Kippah Attacked With Taser Stun Gun in Paris
French police are looking into reports that a gang of youths tasered a Jewish teenager in central Paris. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, said it had contacted police based on reports in French Jewish media of the alleged assault, which according to the news site Alliance.fr happened on Tuesday on Paris’…
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Fast Forward Eric Cantor Loses Republican Primary to Tea Party Challenger by 56%-to-44% Margin
Rep. Eric Cantor, the majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives and the highest-ranking Jew in congressional history, lost his Republican primary in Virginia to a Tea Party challenger in a major upset. Cantor, 51, who rode the Tea Party wave to majority leader after the 2010 elections, was trailing Dave Brat, 56 to…
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Fast Forward French Participation in Birthright Expected to Increase Tenfold This Year
The number of French participants in Taglit-Birthright Israel is slated to increase to 1,000 this year from approximately 100 a year ago. The Birthright organization decided to focus on France this year due to recent anti-Semitic attacks there, expanding its cooperation with local Jewish organizations and increasing its French online marketing effort. “We have decided…
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