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News Jacob Bender Is First Jew To Lead Chapter of Muslim Advocacy Group CAIR
Jacob Bender is set to be the voice of Philadelphia-area Muslims, to take on discrimination they encounter in workplace and in the public sphere, and to fight expressions of hate. And his Jewish faith, Bender believes, can only help him do the job effectively. “The Muslim community is under attack from Islamophobic forces, and it…
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Fast Forward Nepal Chabad Rabbi Prevents Cremation of Jewish Accident Victim
A Chabad rabbi in Nepal averted the cremation of a 32-year-old Australian woman who died in a road accident. Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz told JTA by phone from Kathmandu Wednesday that he had just recovered the body of the former student of Beth Rivkah College in Melbourne. He said he was flown by helicopter from Kathmandu…
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Fast Forward Conservative Movement to Launch Rabbinical Seminary in Germany
The Conservative movement will open a seminary in Germany near Berlin. The Zacharias Frankel European Campus of the American Jewish University’s Ziegler Rabbinical School in Los Angeles is scheduled to launch next fall at the University of Potsdam. The seminary outside Berlin is believed to be the first Conservative seminary in Europe and will start…
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Opinion Russian Jewish Region’s ‘Gay’ Flag Is Kosher!
The Kremlin’s self-styled flag experts have declared that the flag of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region —which bears an uncanny resemblance to the rainbow gay pride symbol — is in fact 100% kosher, Buzzfeed World reported. The flag, designed in 1996 for the Birobidzhan region, boasts colorful stripes on a white background. It was under review…
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Fast Forward Jewish Soccer Coach Leads Colombia to World Cup
Led by its Jewish Argentine coach, Jose Pekerman, the Colombia soccer team will be returning to the World Cup following a 16-year absence. With Tuesday’s 2-1 victory over Paraguay, Colombia was in second place in the World Cup qualifying tournament for South American teams with 30 points, two behind Argentina. The top four squads automatically…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Passes Bill Backing Kosher Slaughter
The Lithuanian parliament passed a draft amendment aimed at preventing the outlawing of kosher slaughter. The amendment submitted by Vytautas Gapsys of the Labor party would benefit the “export of meat to Israel and Arab countries, which are new opportunities,” Gapsys told the news website obzor.lt on Tuesday. Fifty-one lawmakers in the 141-seat parliament voted…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Is Back!
After two years off-screen, the tribe’s pride and joy (a Harvard graduate!) is back in the limelight. Natalie Portman shines on the November cover of Marie-Claire, and dishes about her love for Los Angeles, her upcoming move to Paris and how, really, she’s just like you and me. She even has bad habits! “I bite…
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News Demanding Answers in Unsolved Murder of Palestinian-American Activist Alex Odeh
Civil rights groups are demanding that the FBI solve a 28-year-old California murder long thought to be the work of Jewish extremists. Alex Odeh, the Palestinian-American regional director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, was killed in October 1985 by a pipe bomb that exploded when he opened his office door. No one has ever been…
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