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Fast Forward Portugal To Offer Passports To Sephardic Jews
Following Spain’s lead, Portugal announced this weekend that it will grant citizenship to descendants of Portuguese Jews who were expelled during the Inquisition. The drafted legislation is identical to Spain’s, according to Haaretz. While the principles of the bill are set, the specific wording and criteria still need to be finalized. Spain’s bill provides a…
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Fast Forward Etan Patz Murder Case Plagued by New Questions
Manhattan prosecutors are reportedly worried about the weakness of their case against the South Jersey man accused of the notorious 1979 kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz in SoHo. Pedro Hernandez, 52, of Camden, N.J. confessed to the notorious slaying, but there is no physical evidence tying him to the Jewish boy’s killing and he…
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Recipes Video: DIY Chocolate and Cinnamon Babka
Homemade babka is a pure delight, filling your home with the smell of yeasty bread, cinnamon and chocolate. This video breaks the whole recipe down.
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Fast Forward Slain Pittsburgh Jewish School Aide Susan Wolfe Seen on Bus With Mystery Man
A slain Pittsburgh Jewish day school teacher’s aide was spotted riding a bus home with a man the night before her body was found along with her pediatrician sister, police said. Susan Wolfe, 44, is shown on video surveillance tape sitting together with the unknown man as she rode home from her job at the…
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Fast Forward Abe Foxman Lauded by Barack Obama as ‘Tireless Voice’
President Obama lauded retiring Anti-Defamation League leader Abraham Foxman as a “tireless voice against anti-Semitism. In a statement, the president praised Foxman, who will retire next year after 50 years of service, as a fighter against prejudice who pushed all Americans to reject hatred. “For decades, Abe Foxman has been a tireless voice against anti-Semitism…
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Fast Forward Police May Have Suspect in Double Murder of Pittsburgh Jewish School Aide, Sister
A slain Jewish day school teacher’s aide was reportedly found naked in the basement of her Pittsburgh home along with her sister who was also murdered. Susan Wolfe, 44, who worked at Hillel Academy in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, was found naked with a single gunshot wound to the head, police sources told the Pittsburgh…
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Fast Forward Abraham Foxman To Step Down as Anti-Defamation League Chief
Abraham H. Foxman announced he will step down from his position as national director of the Anti-Defamation League on July 20, 2015, ending a 50-year career in Jewish communal service. “ADL offered me the perfect vehicle to live a life of purpose both in standing up on behalf of the Jewish people to ensure that…
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Fast Forward Robbers Targeted Home of Slain Jewish Day School Aide and Sister
Robbers reportedly targeted the home of a Pittsburgh Jewish day school teacher’s aide two months before she was murdered alongside her pediatrician sister inside the house. Hillel Academy officials told Pittsburgh’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper that Susan Wolfe had told of returning to the home to find it ransacked in December. The sisters, who recently bought…
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