Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Fast Forward Conservative Ziegler rabbinical school to relocate to ‘heart of Jewish life’ in Los Angeles
American Jewish University is renting space for Ziegler in a commercial building in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood
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News The historian who uncovered the ADL’s secret plot against the far-right John Birch Society
The Birchers’ mission to defend Christianity and capitalism morphed into a radical anti-civil rights agenda that groups like the ADL saw as an existential threat
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Fast Forward Jewish institutions awaken to climate crisis, with hundreds pledging action
Jewish climate activists are declaring a "paradigm shift" and "culture change" that they say have put an end to decades of inaction on climate
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News Hebrew school enrollment across US down by nearly half since 2006, report says
The report identifies pockets of growth, mostly in the small number of programs that operate outside of synagogues, and in schools operated by the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement
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Fast Forward Funds for Tel Aviv apartment given to Putin’s former teacher came from Roman Abramovich, records reveal
The records undermine denials by Abramovich, a Russian Jewish oligarch, of a financial relationship with Vladimir Putin
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News Inside the auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world
Booming sales at Genazym are credited to a newly affluent Orthodox community willing to spend on heritage items
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News Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust
The online encyclopedia will probe allegations that volunteer editors put blame for the genocide on Jews and absolve Poles of collaboration
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Fast Forward American patron of Israeli archaeology becomes focus of New York’s antiquities trafficking unit
Shelby White, who donates to several Jewish institutions, has already relinquished at least two dozen items worth at least $20 million
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