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Fast Forward Thousands of Kapparot Chickens Die in Brooklyn Heat
Thousands of chickens designated for the pre-Yom Kippur kapparot ritual died in New York due to unseasonable heat. An estimated 2,000 chickens died Wednesday in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on Wednesday, when temperatures climbed into the mid-90s, the New York Daily News reported. Chaim Singer,32, told the newspaper that water and shade were…
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Fast Forward Floods in Colorado Close Shul Before Yom Kippur
Flooding in Colorado submerged a synagogue and a rabbi’s home. The flooding, which has killed three people and displaced hundreds, hit Boulder County hardest, including the Chabad synagogue near the University of Colorado. “Thank G‑d, the students have been immensely helpful moving the Torahs and other sacred items to higher ground, and we still have…
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Fast Forward Jewish Students Attacked on Sports Courts in France
A group of 10 teenagers in Paris assaulted ten Jewish school pupils at a public sports center. According to France’s Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, several teenagers “of African and North African origins” on Thursday attacked the group of Jewish 13-year-olds from the Ner HaThorah private Jewish school. There were no serious injuries. The attackers…
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Fast Forward Budapest To Get $22 Million Holocaust Memorial Center
A disused train station in Budapest will soon become a $22 million Holocaust memorial center. Janos Lazar, the Hungarian prime minister’s chief of staff, said the memorial will feature an educational center and will be opened by spring next year at Budapest’s Jozsefvaros train station, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported Thursday. That timing coincides…
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Fast Forward Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Agrees To Ban on Chemical Weapons
JERUSALEM — Syrian President Bashar Assad said Israel should be required to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons. “If we want stability in the Middle East, all countries should adhere to agreements and the first country to adhere to the agreements should be Israel because Israel has nuclear, chemical, and…
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Fast Forward Peres To Award Presidential Medal To Spielberg and Wiesel
Israeli President Shimon Peres will award his Presidential Medal of Distinction to Steven Spielberg, Elie Wiesel and five other recipients. The awards were announced Thursday with a statement from Peres’ office. Spielberg is being awarded the medal “for his contribution to cinema over the past 50 years and specifically his unique contribution to the memory…
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Fast Forward Accused Bomber of California Chabad House Dies in Federal Custody
A homeless man accused of setting off a bomb outside a Southern California Chabad House has died in federal custody. Ron Hirsch, 62, who set off the bomb in April 2011 at the Santa Monica Chabad House, died last month at a federal medical center in North Carolina, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported….
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Fast Forward Leading Orthodox Rabbi in Australia Apologizes for Abuse Cover Up
The president of the Orthodox rabbinate in Australia issued an unequivocal apology to the victims of child sex abuse and urged perpetrators to turn themselves in to police. On the eve of Yom Kippur, Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, president of the Organization of Rabbis of Australasia, said the “culture of cover-up” in Australia is wrong. “An…
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