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Fast Forward Winnepeg Students Ban ‘Israel Apartheid’ Group
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union voted to strip funding and official club status from an anti-Israel group on campus. The vote on April 11 went against legal advice and bucked the trend among other student councils at Canadian universities which in recent months have voted to divest from Israel. The vote of 19 to…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi Probed Over Circumcision Rite
Berlin’s district attorney is investigating complaints about a circumcision in the German capital involving the controversial metzizah b’peh ritual. A spokesman for the office of the public prosecutors, Martin Steltner, told JTA that several complaints were lodged formally in the past two weeks regarding the March 3 circumcision of the infant son of Berlin Chabad…
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Fast Forward Israel Marks Yom Hazikaron Memorial Day With Air Raid Sirens
Israel began memorializing its more than 25,000 fallen soldiers and terror victims. Yom Hazikaron, or Memorial Day, began in Israel on Sunday night with the sounding of a siren. “We will not forget even for a moment and will always remember those for whom the survival of Israel and its glory are indebted. Those who…
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Fast Forward No John Galliano for You! Israeli Songbird Told To Shun ‘Anti-Semitic’ Coutier
Israel’s contestant in the international Eurovision music contest was barred from wearing a dress by designer John Galliano. The Israel Broadcasting Authority, which sponsors the Israeli contestant and broadcasts the popular competition, would not allow Moran Mazor to wear the dress that Galliano agreed to design for her. Mazor said in a recent interview for…
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Fast Forward American Teacher David Kramer Convicted of 6 Abuse Counts at Australian Chabad Yeshiva
An American Jew pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault against students at an Orthodox boys school in Melbourne. David Kramer, 52, pleaded guilty to five charges of indecent assault via video link Friday at Melbourne Magistrates Court. He also pleaded guilty to one count of an indecent act with a minor; six of the…
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Fast Forward Holland Holds ‘Open Houses’ at Homes of Jewish Holocaust Victims
Dozens of houses that belonged to Dutch Jewish Holocaust victims across the Netherlands will be open to visitors on May 4, the country’s official memorial day for the victims of World War II. The “open house” initiative commemorating deported Dutch Jews began in Amsterdam last year, when 20 such addresses opened their doors to the…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Mezuzah-Burning Suspect Takes to Facebook: ‘I Don’t Hate Jews’
A man arrested for allegedly setting mezuzahs on fire in a Brooklyn apartment building addressed the accusations on his Facebook page. Rubin Ubiles, 35, was taken in for questioning on Wednesday and later arrested. Eleven mezuzahs were set afire on Monday afternoon – the day Israel observed Holocaust Remembrance Day – in public housing located…
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Fast Forward Hungary Priest From Far Right Jobbik Party Plans Anti-Jewish Rally
A far-right Hungarian priest said an “anti-Zionist” demonstration will be held in Budapest on the first day of the World Jewish Congress’ General Assembly. Lorant Hegedus Jr., a Calvinist priest and member of the ultrarightist, anti-Semitic Jobbik party, announced that an “Anti-Bolshevik and anti-Zionist people’s gathering” will be held in the Hungarian capital on May…
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