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Fast Forward Magician David Copperfield Forced To Reveal Signature Trick In $400K Negligence Suit
(JTA) — Magician David Copperfield was forced to reveal the secret behind one of his most famous tricks in court this week. The 61-year-old illusionist from New Jersey, who is Jewish, is being sued for negligence by a British man who claims to have been injured while taking part in one of his shows at…
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Fast Forward Syracuse Frat Suspended For Anti-Semitic And Racist Video
(JTA) — Syracuse University has suspended a campus fraternity after a video surfaced of members using racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and ableist slurs. In the video, discovered by the Daily Orange, Syracuse’s student newspaper, a member of Theta Tau gets on his knees and repeats an oath with slurs against blacks, Hispanics and Jews, among others….
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Fast Forward Rabbi Rafael Grossman, Strengthened Jewish Life In The South, Dies At 84
(JTA) — Rabbi Rafael Grossman, who founded and expanded Jewish institutions in the American South, has died. Grossman died April 12 in Jerusalem. He was 84. He served as a pulpit rabbi at Baron Hirsch Congregation, an Orthodox synagogue in Memphis, Tennessee, for nearly three decades, according to an announcement from the congregation. Grossman was…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Driving Explosives-Laden Truck Tries To Enter Israel From West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was arrested trying to enter Israel through a West Bank checkpoint with a truck carrying “powerful” explosives. On Wednesday, security guards found the explosives embedded in the truck’s air conditioning system during a routine check of its roof. The vehicle, which was attempting to enter Israel at a northern…
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Fast Forward Jewish Cemetery Vandalized Near Paris
(JTA) — A Jewish cemetery near Paris was desecrated by a person who vandalized eight headstones, a watchdog on anti-Semitism said. The incident earlier this week resulted in light damage to the headstones at the cemetery in Seine Saint Denis north of the French capital, according to a statement Wednesday by Sammy Ghozlan, president of…
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Fast Forward Israel’s President Broke Holocaust Law During Poland Visit, Group Charges
(JTA) — A far-right Polish nationalist group has filed a complaint with the country’s High Court, accusing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin of violating a law that makes it illegal to suggest that Poles or the country were complicit in Nazi crimes during the Holocaust. The group, the National Movement, accuses Rivlin of breaking the recently…
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Fast Forward Barbara Bush Was ‘Gold Standard’ For First Ladies: GOP Jews
(JTA) – Barbara Bush “was the gold standard for what it means to be First Lady,” the Republican Jewish Coalition said. The wife of the 41st president, George H.W. Bush, as well as the mother of the 43rd, George W. Bush, died Tuesday night at her home in Houston. She was 92 and had been…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Wearing Kippah Attacked By ‘Yehudi’ Screaming Assailant On Berlin Street
BERLIN (JTA) – A young Jewish man wearing a kippah was physically attacked on a Berlin street by an Arabic-speaking man in an apparent anti-Semitic attack. Police are investigating the Tuesday evening incident, which the victim, 21, filmed on his cell phone. During the attack, the assailant lashed the kippah-clad Jewish man with his belt…
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