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Fast Forward Damaged Torahs Found by U.S. Troops in Iraq Are Buried in New York
Damaged Torah scrolls found by U.S. troops in Iraq’s intelligence headquarters were buried in a cemetery in New York. The burial, the method under Jewish law of disposing of unusable religious objects and texts, took place Sunday at the New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon, Long Island, the Associated Press reported. More than 100 people…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Directors Protests Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
Directors of museums located at the sites of former Nazi death camps are protesting a Polish prosecutor’s office decision not to initiate an investigation into the phrase “Polish death camps.” On Monday, a joint letter to the Polish Attorney General and Polish Minister of Justice signed by the heads of state museums at Auschwitz, Belzec,…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Businessman Held in Bolivia Returns to U.S.
Jacob Ostreicher, a New York businessman held in Bolivia since 2011, has returned to the United States, the U.S. State Department reportedly confirmed. An unnamed State Department official late Monday confirmed to the Associated Press that Ostreicher was in the United States for the first time in more than two years, but did not provide…
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Fast Forward Canadian Protestant Leaders Speak Out Against Church Boycott
Leaders of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination are speaking out against their church’s boycott of products made in Israeli settlements. “We believe that this decision [to boycott] has damaged relationships that are vital to growing a just peace,” according to the website of United Against Boycott, which represents 47 leaders of the United Church of Canada….
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Fast Forward Two Children From Haredi Canadian Sect Taken Into Custody by Child Services
Child-protection authorities in Ontario have taken two children into protective custody from the reclusive Jewish sect Lev Tahor. A lawyer for the group told The Toronto Star on Monday that officials with the Chatham-Kent Children’s Services in southwest Ontario seized the two children from one family on Dec. 12. The circumstances surrounding the seizure are…
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Fast Forward Jewish Argentine Woman Wins World Boxing Organization Title
Carolina Raquel Duer, a Jewish Argentine retained the World Boxing Organization bantamweight title. Duer, popularly known as “The Turk,” defeated Mexican Estrella Valverde in a unanimous decision on Friday in Buenos Aires to take her second world title. The Jewish boxer raised her professional record to 16-3. The judges scored the 10-round bout 97-90, 99-88…
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Fast Forward 18th Century Mikvah Discovered in Venezuela
A mikvah dating from the 18th century was discovered in Venezuela. The Jewish ritual bath was discovered in the state of Falcon during the remodeling of the Art Museum Alberto Henriquez in the central town of Coro, according to the Prensa Latina news agency. Its discovery was reported late last week. According to Prensa Latina,…
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Fast Forward ‘Superman Sam’ Loses Fight to Leukemia, Dies at 8 Years Old
Samuel Asher Sommer, known as “Superman Sam,” whose fight against leukemia inspired many to raise money to fight the disease, has died. Sam died Saturday in his Chicago-area home at the age of 8. His death was announced during Shabbat morning services at the Union for Reform Judaism biennial convention, according to the Times of…
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