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By Forward Staff
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Fast Forward Hundreds Protest ‘Price Tag’ Attack on Mosque
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Israel Monday evening to protest the recent vandalism of a mosque in a largely Arab town. Protesters held signs denouncing anti-Arab “price tag” attacks as hate crimes, Haaretz reported. Police were on hand in force in the town of Umm al-Fahm, but there were no confrontations. Early Friday morning, assailants…
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Fast Forward London Synagogue Worshippers Pluck Baby From Burning Car
A baby was saved from a burning car outside a London synagogue when two men rushed out of a Passover service to rescue him moments before the vehicle turned into a fireball. The family of four was trapped inside their Peugeot when it caught fire on a street in north London’s Tottenham section Sunday, according…
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Fast Forward Overland Park Rampage Killer Ranted to Rabbi About ‘You Jews’
The notorious white supremacist charged with fatally shooting three people outside of Jewish community centers near Kansas City reportedly called a Jewish hotline weeks earlier to rant to a rabbi about “getting rid of every Jew.” Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, was connected to Rabbi Menachem Siegal, director of the United Jewish Communities of Eastern Europe…
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News Did Smirking ‘Nazi’ Gunman Single Out Jews for Death in Kansas City Rampage?
A smirking gunman who reportedly shouted Nazi slogans opened fire at a Jewish community center and an old-age home in a suburb of Kansas City, killing three people. The gunman, later identified as notorious white supramacist Frazier Glenn Cross, singled out Jewish victims for death, Rabbi Herbert Mandl, a chaplain with the Overland Park Police…
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News Kansas City Jewish Community Stunned by Rampage On Eve of Passover
Jewish community leaders were stunned by the shooting rampage at two suburban Kansas City Jewish institutions on the eve of Passover — but urged Jews to continue with their preparations for the holiday. “Our hearts go out to the families who have suffered loss on this tragic day,” the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas…
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News Jew-Hating Ku Klux Klan Leader Identified as Overland Park ‘Killer’
The suspect in the Passover Eve killings of three people at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area has been identified as a notorious white supremacist and former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said suspect Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73, was once the…
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Books Remembering Herman Taube, Witness to a Vanished World
Herman Taube, a novelist, poet and longtime Washington correspondent for the Forverts, died March 25 in Rockville, Maryland. He was 96. Born on February 2, 1918, in Lodz, Poland, Taube was orphaned at a young age and was raised by his grandparents, Mirle and Gershon Mandel. In an interview with the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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Fast Forward How 764 Jews Jumped From Moving Shoah Trains To Escape Death Camps
At least 764 Jews managed to escape the Holocaust by jumping out of moving trains on their way to the death camps, new historical research shows. “I was amazed that this happened at all,” Tanja von Fransecky, a German historian, told the Independendent newspaper.) “I had always assumed that the wagons were stuffed full prior…
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