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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Join Minimum Wage Campaign
Jewish clergy joined religious leaders of several faiths at a breakfast meeting to discuss the need for a higher minimum wage in New York. Organized by a non-partisan advocacy group Working Families, the Faith and Clergy Breakfast was intended to gather support for the campaign for raising minimum wage, and specifically for a rally being…
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Fast Forward Muslim Candidate Claims No Jews Died on 9/11
A Muslim politician running for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State in Missouri has stated that no Jews died in the World Trade Center on 9-11 and has alleged that Jews were involved in the deadly attack. MD Rabbi Alam, chairman of the National Democratic Party Asian American Caucus and, according to the Washington…
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Fast Forward Jews’ ‘Ethnic’ Category Scrapped for Testing
Jews should no longer be categorized by their ethnic origin when being tested for hereditary conditions, says the Health Ministry. The mixing of Jewish communities – mixed heritage – has rendered such categorization pointless, the ministry’s community genetics department says. Because of the proliferation of “mixed marriages” between Jewish communities, as well as technological advances,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Sperm Declines in Quality: Report
The growing mass of research pointing at the decline in the quality of Israeli male semen is joined recently by a study conducted at the Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, which found a 15-year decline in the quality of semen donated by Israeli sperm donors. The study looked at several factors of 2,182 sperm samples gathered…
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Fast Forward Israeli Protest Demands Equal Service
Thousands of protesters marched in central Tel Aviv on Saturday to demand ultra-Orthodox and Arab sectors share the burden of military and civilian service. Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz and his predecessor Tzipi Livni also attended the rally, as did “Yesh Atid” chairman Yair Lapid. According to Police estimates 20,000 persons arrived at the Museum Plaza….
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Fast Forward British Town Marks Old Jewish Cemetery
A Jewish heritage committee in Oxford marked an medieval Jewish cemetery in the university town. The burial site, not in use since the 1290 expulsion of the Jews from Britain, is located at the city’s Rose Garden, and was identified by Pam Manix, a historian and a member of Oxford Jewish Heritage. The Jewish Chronicle…
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Culture Where Have All the Nurses Gone?
One of my favorite television programs is “Nurse Jackie,” which casts a rueful eye on the complicated life of an emergency nurse in a contemporary urban hospital. My husband’s formidable great-aunt, Vera Libo Grinspoon, was a nurse, too — a head nurse at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital in the years leading up to the birth of…
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Fast Forward Ex-CIA Chief Calls for Release of Pollard
Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard must be released, former CIA chief R. James Woolsey wrote in a letter to the editor sent to the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, arguing that one reason Pollard has remained in prison for as long as he has was that he was an American Jew. Woolsey, who has voiced…
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