Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Murderer’s Cousins Busted in Slaying of Hasidic Brooklyn Landlord
— Two brothers were arrested in connection with the 2014 kidnapping and murder of a Jewish Brooklyn landlord. Erskin and Kendall Felix, aged 38 and 28, respectively, were taken into custody for their alleged roles in the killing of Menachem Stark, the New York Daily News reported Friday based on information obtained from police sources….
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Terrorist Attacks Doubled in September From Previous Month
— Terrorist attacks in Jerusalem doubled last month compared to August. Whereas the number of attacks perpetrated against Israelis in the West Bank remained almost unchanged – 78 incidents last month compared to 78 in August – the number of attacks in Jerusalem rose by 100 percent, from 13 attacks in August to 26 incidents…
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Fast Forward Bar Refaeli Wows World With ‘Sexiest Mom’ Figure
(JTA) — Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli is wowing media from around the world with the results of her efforts to regain her pre-pregnancy figure. People magazine on Monday joined a flood of articles from publications from around the world — and in Latin America especially — congratulating the 31-year-old on returning to her slender figure…
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Fast Forward French Center-Right Candidate Blasts Hillary Clinton’s ‘Submission to Zionists’
— French Jews demanded the country’s Republican party take disciplinary action against a lawmaker who said Hillary Clinton endangers Europe because she is controlled by Zionists. The president of CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, made the demand in a statement Thursday about Jean Fréderic Poisson, a National Assembly lawmaker whose Christian Democratic Party…
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Fast Forward 4 Ukrainians Busted in Beating of Chabad Rabbi
– Police in Ukraine arrested four suspects, including two teenagers, in the beating of a rabbi in the western city of Zhitomir earlier this month. The suspects in the Oct. 7 beating of Mendel Deitsch, 63, were apprehended Sunday at a bus station in the city, which they planned to flee because they believed that…
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Fast Forward Dutch Chief Rabbi Decries Planned Euthanasia Laws For Healthy People
AMSTERDAM — Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs urged his country’s government to drop plans to legalize assisted suicide for healthy individuals. Jacobs was reacting to a statement made earlier this week in the Tweede Kamer, the Dutch lower house, by the country’s health minister announcing planned legislation designed to broaden existing laws on assisted suicide…
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Fast Forward Jewish Member of UK Parliament Frightened By Anti-Semitic Personal Attacks
— Luciana Berger, a well-known Jewish lawmaker in Britain’s Labour Party, said her family was pained and worried over threats and anti-Semitic slurs made at her. Berger, who rarely speaks about her private life in interviews, made the statements in a filmed interview posted online Wednesday by the Liverpool Echo ahead of Britain’s National Hate…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Allegedly Mocked Deaf Jewish “Apprentice” Contestant
— Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is attempting damage control following his misogynistic statements, is accused of mocking the deaf Jewish actress Marlee Matlin over her disability. Trump ridiculed Matlin, a 1986 Academy Award winner, during filming in 2011 of his reality television show “Celebrity Apprentice,” The Daily Beast reported Thursday, allegedly calling the…
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