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Fast Forward Al Chernin, Soviet Jewry Advocate, Dies
Albert Chernin, executive vice chairman emeritus of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs who helped lead the Soviet Jewry movement, has died. Chernin died in his sleep on Nov. 26, according to his daughter Anne Chernin. Chernin headed the National Jewish Community Relations Council, the original name of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, or…
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The Schmooze Sigmund Rolat Receives Jan Karski Award
Recipient of the Jan Karski Award at the November 18 David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies 10th Anniversary Dinner was survivor, philanthropist, Sigmund Rolat. In his acceptance speech Rolat — who unveiled a monument dedicated to Czestochowa’s 40,000 Jewish citizens who perished in Treblinka, restored the city’s philharmonic–naming it after Bronislaw Huberman (founder of…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Wife Plans New Freedom Push for Jew Held in Cuba
Alan Gross’ wife and Washington’s Jewish community will call on President Obama to make a priority of securing his release from a Cuban jail on the fourth anniversary of his imprisonment. Judy Gross will appear with officials from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington on Dec. 3 outside the White House in a…
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Fast Forward Pleading With Iran To Free Robert Levinson
The Obama administration reiterated its plea to Iran’s government to track and free a Jewish man held hostage for six years. “On March 9, 2007, American citizen and retired FBI Agent Robert Levinson went missing during a business trip to Kish Island, Iran,” said the statement issued Tuesday by the White House press office. “Today,…
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Israel News Jewish Groups Back Away From All-Out Fight Over Iran Nuclear Deal
American Jewish organizations have taken a step back from the barricades in the emergent conflict between Israel and the United States over the interim agreement with Iran on its contested nuclear program. Even as Israel has fiercely attacked the agreement, signed by the United States and five other countries with Iran, the Jewish organizations have…
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Life Who Harasses Women on the Street
It’s getting to the point where I can feel it in my posture. The inevitability of street harassment makes my shoulders tense up before I even leave my house. I don’t make eye contact on the street, ever, but especially with men. I wear headphones all the time anyway, but because of them, I probably…
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Fast Forward Israel and European Union Reach Research Deal Despite Settlements
Israel struck a compromise deal with the European Union on Tuesday allowing it to join a prestigious EU scientific research project, Israeli government sources said, resolving a dispute over Jewish settlements in occupied territory. Israeli participation had been jeopardised by new EU guidelines unveiled in July effectively barring EU money from being allotted to Israeli…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders in Oregon Protest Neo-Nazi Analogy in Gay Marriage Debate
Jewish leaders in Oregon protested the use of an analogy about a Jewish business serving neo-Nazis to make a point about whether businesses should have to serve same-sex weddings. Responding to the analogy used last week by a spokeswoman for the Oregon Family Council, 13 Oregon rabbis and leaders of the Jewish Federation of Greater…
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