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News Protest Slams Washington Jewish Funeral Home Merger — Fear Higher Costs
Standing in front of an empty coffin carrying signs reading “I can’t afford to die,” leaders of the Washington D.C. Jewish community staged a protest outside the offices of the Federal Trade Commission urging it to block expected rate hikes following a planned merger of two funeral conglomerates. “Our point of concern is that the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Congressman Presses Turkish Foreign Minister About Reports of Anti-Semitism
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), a co-chairman of the Congressional caucus on Turkey, pressed the Turkish foreign minister on reports of anti-Semitism and human rights abuses in his country. Cohen said he asked Ahmet Davutoglu when the caucus met Monday with a Turkish delegation about reports of a surge of anti-Semitism of the repression of dissent…
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Fast Forward Senate Leaders Warn Obama to Stay Tough on Iran’s Uranium Enrichment Program
Senate leaders appeared ready to delay intensified sanctions targeting Iran while President Obama seeks a deal to roll back that country’s nuclear program, although several warned not to yield on demands that Iran end its uranium enrichment. In comments after the meeting, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Corker…
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Fast Forward Norway Academic Boycotts Kristallnacht Memorial as ‘Israeli Propaganda’
A Norwegian university distanced itself from a professor who said he opposed commemorating Nazi-era pogroms because it serves Israeli propaganda. The views expressed last week by Trond Andresen, an assistant professor in the department of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, are “far from what we stand for as…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Blasts Disruption of Kristallnacht Event by Catholic Extremists in Argentina
Pope Francis, reacting to the disruption of a recent interfaith Kristallnacht memorial, told Latin American religious leaders visiting the Vatican that “aggression cannot be an act of faith.” “Preaching intolerance is a form of militancy that must be overcome,” Francis told the delegation on Tuesday. The pope made his remarks a week after fundamentalist Christians…
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Life The Muslim Film Every Bat Mitzvah Girl Should See
“Wadjda,” the first feature film shot in Saudi Arabia, seems an unlikely fit for a b’nai mitzvah curriculum. Haifaa al-Mansour’s film about a plucky Muslim tween girl in Riyadh whose greatest desire is to buy a bicycle has no reference to Jews and no coming-of-age celebration to speak of. The film’s one connection to issues…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Hebrew Charter School’s F Grade Doesn’t Reflect Movement, Leaders Say
(JTA) — On a bright autumn morning, Hebrew songs and phrases fill the sun-drenched, freshly painted blue and white classrooms of New York’s Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School. A group of kindergartners, representing such an even mix of black and white children that they resemble a 1980s Benetton ad, clasp each other by the…
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Opinion Meet Max Levin, Teenage Stock Pick King
Max Levin makes more money sitting in his high school math class than most people do during a day at their office. At 11, the Jewish boy from Voorhees, N.J., was making his first stock picks, guided by his grandfather, a day trader in New York City. Two years later, he used his bar mitzvah…
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