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Fast Forward Jewish Inmate Demands Transfer in Alabama Prison Kosher Food Fight
A Jewish man being held in an Alabama prison who sued the federal government demanding to be served kosher food has asked a federal judge to grant a transfer to another prison. Rafael Alberto Lloveras Linares, a federal immigration detainee from Venezuela, has asked to be transferred to a facility in Miami or Newark, N.J….
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The Schmooze Palestinian Artists Pull Out of Pittsburgh Show
An art exhibition in Pittsburgh featuring the work of Israeli, Palestinian and American artists was canceled after the Palestinian artists withdrew from the show. “Sites of Passage: Borders, Walls & Citizenship,” scheduled to run at Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory museum from June 1 to July 27, was the culmination of a joint multimedia project begun a…
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Fast Forward Tens of Thousands March in 50th Annual N.Y. Israel Parade
Tens of thousands marched in New York in the Celebrate Israel Parade, which is marking its 50th anniversary. Organizers had expected some 35,000 participants in Sunday’s parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Among the elected officials participating in the annual parade were New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio….
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News A Decade Later, Mass. Jews Look Back at Legacy of Same-Sex Marriage
Ten years ago, shortly after midnight on May 17, 2004, a jubilant Arthur Lipkin and his longtime partner descended the stone steps of Cambridge City Hall clutching a marriage license application. It was a historic night of revelry and celebration, as Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to allow same-sex couples to legally…
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Fast Forward Why Did Rolling Stones Delay Start of Israel Concert?
The Rolling Stones have pushed back the start time of their Tel Aviv show to enable religiously observant concert goers to attend. The Stones are scheduled to perform at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv on June 4, which is the holiday of Shavuot. The concert originally was scheduled to begin at 8:30, minutes after the…
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Fast Forward Brussels Museum Shooting Suspect Confesses in Video
A man arrested on suspicion of killing four people last month at the Jewish Museum of Belgium claimed responsibility for the attack in a video. Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said Sunday in a news conference in Brussels that a video found after the arrest of Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, at a bus and train…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Groups Fight For Muslim Inmate’s Beard Length
A coalition of Orthodox Jewish groups filed friend of the court briefs in two high-profile cases involving religious practice in prisons. The National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs on May 28 filed a brief in the Atlanta-based federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the matter of access to kosher meals in the…
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Fast Forward Z Street Can Sue IRS, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge ruled that a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of Israel-related groups may proceed. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. on May 27 dismissed U.S. government claims that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the lawsuit filed in 2010 by an Israel advocacy group, Z Street….
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