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Fast Forward Moroccan Jews Plan Return to Cape Verde for Cemetery Dedication
Descendants of Jews from Cape Verde plan to rededicate a burial plot in the West African island state next week, largely thanks to funding by the king of Morocco. The rededication ceremony is scheduled to take place in Praia, the capital, on May 2 and is expected to be attended by a small group of…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jews Irked by Yom Kippur Conflict With Queen Beatrix Farewell
A Dutch chief rabbi said his community was “vexed” because a farewell event for the Dutch queen was scheduled on Yom Kippur. “Jews are again faced with a reality in which they don’t belong and that is painful,” Holland’s chief interprovincial rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, told NRC Handelsblad on April 26. On Yom Kippur, a day…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jews Worry Rise of Nationalist Party Will Revive Anti-Semitism
Marching in formation, six young men in dark jackets approach an anti-government rally in Cherkasy, a city some 125 miles southeast of Kiev. At the appointed moment, they remove their windbreakers to reveal white T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Beat the kikes.” Their jackets carry the name of Svoboda, the ultranationalist Ukrainian political party. A…
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Fast Forward Jews and Palestinian Backers Face Off in Rome at Liberation Day Parade
Jewish and pro-Palestinian demonstrators faced off in Rome during a parade marking the World War II liberation of Italy. At the annual parade in Rome on Thursday marking Liberation Day, a small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators waving a Palestinian flag bearing a portrait of Yasser Arafat protested against the group of Jews and others who…
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Fast Forward Europol Finds Links Between Hezbollah and Bulgaria Bombing
The European Union’s police body, Europol, said in a report that “indications suggest possible links” between Hezbollah and a deadly terrorist attack in Bulgaria last year. The statement, published Friday by the news site EuObserver, suggests Europol has adopted the findings of a six-month-long investigation by Bulgarian security services into the July 19, 2012 bombing…
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Fast Forward Dresden Gets First Town Rabbi Since 1938
The Jewish community of Dresden is installing its first hometown rabbi since 1938. Alexander Nachama, 29, is to be formally inaugurated this Sabbath as rabbi of the new synagogue in Dresden, which is in eastern Germany. Dresden’s Semper-Synagogue was destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938. The new synagogue was dedicated at the original site…
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Fast Forward British Mandate Chief Compared Jewish Fighters to Nazis
The High Commissioner of Palestine viewed the behavior of Jewish fighters as comparable to that of the Nazis, newly published records show. On April 30, 1948, Alan Cunningham wrote to his superiors that as the Jews celebrated military successes their “broadcasts, both in content and in manner of delivery, are remarkably like those of Nazi…
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Fast Forward Canadian Government To Build Holocaust Memorial in Capital
The Canadian government announced plans to build a national Holocaust memorial in the nation’s capital. The monument “will be a testament to the importance of ensuring that the memory of the Holocaust is never lost,” Tim Uppal, minister of state for democratic reform, said in a statement Tuesday following remarks at the Canadian War Museum,…
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