Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Fast Forward Disgraced former Reform movement leader Sheldon Zimmerman expelled from rabbinical association
The expulsion provides a measure of closure in a reckoning that has gripped the Reform movement for nearly two years
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News Soviet Jewry protest leaders in San Francisco secretly recruited help from Jews for Jesus, FBI file says
If the FBI’s intelligence is accurate, a movement that unified much of the global Jewish community relied at least to some extent on the support of a reviled group whose mission is to proselytize to Jews
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Fast Forward As foreign investors warn over Israel’s future, ratings firm accused of anti-Israel bias says it’s not worried — for now
A spokesperson for the investing rating company Morningstar said that its analysis designating Israel a low-risk country does not yet account for Netanyahu's judicial reform overhaul
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Fast Forward Half of America’s 25 most generous philanthropists are Jews. Few give much to Jewish causes.
Of the Jews who made Forbes’ annual list of top philanthropists, only Lynn and Stacy Schusterman of the Tulsa oil dynasty, are prominent donors to Jewish causes
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Fast Forward Hasidic schools are exploiting special education funding, says latest New York Times probe of yeshivas
Private companies serving Hasidic and Orthodox schools receive millions in government money for services that are not always needed or even provided, according to the paper
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Fast Forward Christian churches are urged to act against antisemitism, including by scrutinizing their own practices
The Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations said it was alarmed by the possible “normalization of antisemitism in American discourse.”
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Fast Forward Synagogues are joining the ‘effective altruism’ movement. Will the Sam Bankman-Fried scandal stop them?
The charitable philosophy has been quietly gaining traction in the Jewish world, especially in the Reform movement
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Fast Forward Trump hosts Kanye West and prominent antisemite Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago
Trump claims he didn't invite white nationalist Nick Fuentes and that he didn't know anything about him
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