Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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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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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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