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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Blasts Amusement Park ‘Apartheid’ and ‘Price Tag’ Vandals
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned racism against Israeli Arabs, and vandalism attacks against Palestinians. “I would like to strongly condemn recent phenomena of racism against Israeli Arabs and hooliganism against Palestinians, which were without any provocation or justification whatsoever. We strongly reject these phenomena and will act with all legal means at our disposal…
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Fast Forward Canada’s Oldest Synagogue Marks 150th Birthday in British Columbia
Canada’s oldest continuously operating synagogue is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Congregation Emanu-El, located in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, will host a reenactment of its dedication ceremony on Sunday, The Times of Israel reported. In 1863, even before Canada had become a country, Jewish community members in Victoria and non-Jewish patrons got together to…
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Opinion Let’s Talk About Not Having Sex
I believe in abstinence, at least personally, and I believe in Jewish law. So it makes sense to me that a Jewish organization that promotes both Jewish law and abstinence would create a website dedicated to teenagers and sex. That organization, the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, is the Orthodox Union’s youth movement, and the…
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News Grave-Robbers Target Cuba’s Jewish Cemeteries in Search of Bones for Rituals
Guanabacoa, a colonial town southeast of Havana where the first African guild was created to alleviate the plight of slaves in Cuba, is a somewhat improbable home for not one, but two Jewish cemeteries, both of them more than a century old. They are not the only places where Jews are buried on the island,…
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The Schmooze All About 5 Jewish Drag Queens
There is no shortage of Jewish contributions to the arts, even in the world of drag. Drag dates back to the days of Shakespeare, if not before, when women were not allowed to perform onstage and men would appear on their behalf in drag, or “dressed as girl.” Today, of course, women perform onstage and…
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News Hungary Mayor Rethinks Naming Street After Anti-Semitic Author
The mayor of Budapest ordered a re-examination of a controversial decision to name a street after an anti-Semitic author. Maria Szucs Ciuc, a spokeswoman for Mayor Istvan Tarlos, told the news site FN24.hu on Thursday that the mayor had ordered a re-examination of the city council’s decision to name a street after Cecile Tormay, a…
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Fast Forward Handful of Dutch Jews Live in Shadow of Muslim Area Dubbed ‘Sharia Triangle’
On a cold winter night in 2008, Wim Kortenoeven was startled by the crackling of a large fire raging near his home on the edge of this city’s last remaining Jewish enclave. Rushing from his apartment, Kortenoeven walked 70 yards and crossed the line separating his Jewish-owned housing project from the predominantly Muslim borough containing…
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Culture Malcolm X and the Jews
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 100 years ago 1913 Joseph Hoffman, head of a gang of schnorrers, was sentenced to six…
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