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Fast Forward California State University Student Body Votes To Boycott Israel
(JTA) — A student association affiliated with California State University, Long Beach passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies “profiting from Palestinian oppression.” The senate of Associated Students, Inc., a nonprofit membership association and auxiliary organization of the university, passed the call Wednesday in a resolution addressed to the university but which is not binding…
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Fast Forward Christ’s College Apologizes For Botching Anti-Semitism Abuse Complaint
(JTA) — The head of a prestigious Cambridge University college apologized to two students whose complaints of anti-Semitic abuse were not upheld fully and inadequately handled. Jane Stapleton, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge, said on Thursday that the college now “accepts that racist and anti-Semitic conduct occurred and has apologized to the students who reported…
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Fast Forward Danish Teen In Jewish School Bomb Plot Inspired By Copenhagen Synagogue Gunman
(JTA) — A 17-year-old Danish girl charged with planning to bomb two schools in Denmark, including a Jewish one, allegedly was inspired by the terrorist who killed a security guard at a Copenhagen synagogue in 2015. A Danish prosecutor alleged last month that the teen looked up to the 2015 synagogue gunman, Omar El-Hussein, according…
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Fast Forward The Death Of The TV Channel That Once Unified Israel
(JTA) — On a chilly fall night in 1993, I learned that the bespectacled army reservist sitting across from me in an Ottoman-era building in Nablus and dining on watery yogurt and hard-boiled eggs was an executive at Israel’s then-nascent Channel 2. He wanted to continue our chat on Jane Austen — he noticed I…
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Fast Forward Textbooks In Israeli Haredi Schools Demonize Reform Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Textbooks used in Haredi Orthodox schools in Israel promote the community’s insularity, according to a study by an education watchdog. The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, or IMPACT-se, studied 93 textbooks used in grades 1 through 12. The curricula of the Haredi schools oppose modernity, and acceptance…
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Fast Forward Knesset Bill Would Reject All Israeli Conversions Not Done By Rabbinate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill submitted to the Knesset would require the state to recognize only conversions completed under the auspices of the Orthodox-dominated Chief Rabbinate. The measure, which was submitted by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, former head of the Haredi Orthodox party Shas, appears to be an effort to circumvent a 2016 Supreme Court…
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Fast Forward Smiling Makes You Look Older, Israeli Research Finds
JERUSALEM (JTA) — People who smile at others are perceived as being older, not younger, than those with a neutral expression, a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev study found. The findings were published in the May 8 edition of Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. In a series of experiments intended to gauge age perception based on facial…
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Opinion Jewish College Students Aren’t Losing Their Religion
In a recent analysis of U.S. religious groups, the Pew Research Center reported that the most educated American Jews are also the least religious. In considering these findings, it’s tempting to think that secular education leads to assimilation among American Jews (I want to be clear that Pew, a leading source of data on contemporary…
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