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Fast Forward Tunisia Holocaust Conference Honors 5,000 Forced Into Labor Camps, Deportees
A conference commemorating the effects of the Holocaust on Tunisian Jews is being held in Tunis. Historians, scholars and authors are scheduled speak at the two-day conference, which ends on Sunday. The conference aims to remember the 5,000 Jews subjected to forced labor in Tunisia during a six-month Nazi occupation of the country. Some were…
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Fast Forward Italy Is Slave to ‘Jewish Bankers,’ Says Populist Leader
A populist protest leader’s claim that Italy is “slave to Jewish bankers” has drawn condemnation. Andrea Zunino, spokesman for the Forconi, or Pitchforks Movement, which spearheaded widespread anti-government and anti-austerity protests in Italy last week, made the comment in an interview with La Repubblica newspaper Friday. “We want the government to resign,” he told the…
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Fast Forward Thousands of Israelis Are Left Without Power After Worst Storm in Decades
Some 14,000 Israeli households remained without power in the wake of what is being called Israel’s worst snowstorm in decades. Six thousand of the households still cut off from electricity on Sunday after up to 72 hours are in Jerusalem, the Israel Electric Corporation reported. At the height of the bad weather, some 60,000 households…
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Fast Forward Institute for Contemporary History Vows to Publish ‘Mein Kampf’ Despite Ban
The Institute for Contemporary History vowed to press ahead with the publication of an annotated version of “Mein Kampf” despite a ban by the Bavarian state. In a statement, the institute said it would not abandon the project, which it considers an “important contribution toward historical-political education” and the book’s “demystification.” The copyright on “Mein…
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Fast Forward British Police Arrest Three Fans Over Anti-Semitic Soccer Tweets
Three British men have been arrested for posting anti-Semitic comments on Twitter following a soccer match in October. Police said two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested Thursday in London and in Wiltshire, Reuters reported Friday. A third man, 48, man was arrested at his home in Canning Town in London last week on…
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Fast Forward French Suburb Honors Man Imprisoned for Murder of American and Israel Diplomats
A suburb of the French capital honored a man imprisoned for helping to murder diplomats from Israel and the United States. A majority of aldermen in the city council of Bagnolet east of the French capital voted on Wednesday to make the Lebanese citizen Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an honorary resident, calling him a “communist activist”…
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Fast Forward American Jew Who Vanished in Iran Was on Rogue CIA Mission
An American Jewish man who disappeared in Iran in 2007 had been working for the CIA in a rogue operation, an American newspaper reported. Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent, traveled to the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007 to investigate corruption at a time when he was discussing the renewal of a Central…
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Fast Forward Spanish Hotel Built on Ruins of 15th Century Synagogue Opens New Shul
A Spanish hotel built on the remains of a 15th century synagogue opened a new synagogue on its seventh floor. The opening last week at the Parador de Lorca hotel, a four-star establishment, was the result of negotiations between management and the Sefarad Beitenu Jewish association, which will run the shul, according to a report…
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