Andrew Tobin
By Andrew Tobin
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Culture When Holocaust Survivor Tormented Hitler’s Henchman — as Told to ‘This American Life’
(JTA) — It sounds like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film. A Holocaust survivor, whose mother and sister were killed in the genocide, said he locked a Nazi prisoner in a shed for three days, made him strip and urinated on his face, “This American Life,” the weekly public radio show, Sunday. “I told him, from…
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Breaking News Israel Raids Palestinian ‘Weapons Factories’ on West Bank
Overnight, forces seized 22 weapon manufacturing machines, dozens of weapons & arrested 2 dealers in Judea & Samaria — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) August 23, 2016 (JTA) — Israeli security forces shut down six illegal weapons manufacturing plants in the West Bank in what a senior officer said was among the biggest such operations yet in an ongoing…
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Life Israeli Women Inch Toward Gains in Religious Divorce Struggle
(JTA) — In this case, the sins of the son are the sins of the father. Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court this month sentenced a haredi Orthodox man to 30 days in jail for pressuring his son to withhold a divorce from his wife for more than a decade. By upholding a lower rabbinical court decision,…
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Israel News Most Israelis and Palestinians Oppose Realistic Peace Deal: Poll
JERUSALEM — Most Israelis and Palestinians oppose the kind of peace deal that has been under negotiation in the past, a new poll found. When presented with a permanent status agreement based on previous Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, nearly 60 percent of both Israeli Jews and Palestinians are against it, according to the joint poll by leading Israeli…
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Breaking News Jerusalem Pride Stabber Beaten in Prison Over Murder
JERUSALEM — The man who is serving a life sentence for killing a 16-year-old girl at least year’s Jerusalem gay pride parade was beaten up by fellow inmates during an argument over the murder. Yishai Schlissel, a haredi Orthodox Jew, was hospitalized Wednesday after being assaulted by the two inmates at the Ayalon Prison. Schlissel went…
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Breaking News Israeli Buys Palestinian Girl New Bicycle After Police Trashed Her Old One
JERUSALEM — An Israeli Jewish man bought a Palestinian girl a new bicycle after border guards took and broke hers. Sami Jolles donated the pink bike Wednesday, according to The Times of Israel. He told the news website the girl’s experience reminded him of when anti-Semites attacked his father in 1920s Europe and threw his bike in the river. “I…
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Breaking News Poland Wants To Jail Users of Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
The Polish government proposed a bill that would make the use of terms like “Polish death camps” a crime punishable by jail time. The bill, which the government put forward Tuesday but has not been passed into law, would prohibit assigning blame to Poland for the actions of Nazi Germany. Historians and artists would be…
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Breaking News Woman Who Was Cut Out of Dad’s Will for Marrying a Jew Loses Appeal
— A woman who alleged her father disinherited her for marrying a Jewish man lost her appeal in a New Jersey court. The father’s “alleged discriminatory motive does not provide a basis to set aside the will,” the state appeals court ruled Friday in upholding a lower-court decision, according to The Wall Street Journal. Stacy…
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