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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Has Bar Mitzvah To Remember Slain Family — At 83
(JTA) — An 83-year-old Holocaust survivor living in northern Israel celebrated at a Safed synagogue his bar mitzah ceremony 70 years after its die moment. A few dozen friends and family, as well as Safed’s police commissioner, accompanied Hanoch Shachar to a local synagogue where many of them sang and danced with him before he…
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Fast Forward Russia Will Get Its First Jewish University, Modeled On Yeshiva U
(JTA) — Russia will receive its first Jewish university next month, the institution’s dean said. Modeled after Yeshiva University in the United States, The Jewish University of Moscow is a private institution with a student body of 200 whose budget comes mostly from donors and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, dean Alexander Lebedev…
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Fast Forward French Judge Drops Hate Crime Charges Against Gang Accused Of Assaulting Jew
NICE, France (JTA) — A French judge preparing a trial of Arab teenagers who allegedly assaulted a Jewish youth outside a synagogue omitted hate crime charges from a draft indictment, a watchdog group said. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Ant-Semitism, or BNVCA, protested in a statement on Tuesday the omission from the indictment of…
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Fast Forward Ex-Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Says He’s Complying With Russia Probe After All
(JTA) — Sam Nunberg, a former aide to President Trump, said he is cooperating with a probe on Russian intervention in the 2016 election. Nunberg, who is Jewish, earlier this week said he would ignore a subpoena to appear before a jury sent to him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. But on Wednesday, he…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah On ‘Alert’ In Fear Of Israeli Strike
(JTA) — An Arabic-language newspaper based in London reported that Hezbollah has declared a state of emergency, fearing an Israeli attack. The report Thursday in A-Rai al-Yum said that the Shi’ite militia has been on alert since Tuesday at least in southern Lebanon in anticipation of an Israeli strike on its forces or facilities. Citing…
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Fast Forward J Street Reconsiders Endorsement Of Congressman Who Praised Louis Farrakhan
NEW YORK (JTA) — J Street, the dovish pro-Israel group, said it is re-evaluating its endorsement of a congressman who praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. JStreetPAC, the arm of the liberal Israel lobby that funds and endorses candidates, currently lists Rep. Danny Davis, an Illinois Democrat from the virulently anti-Semitic Farrakhan’s home base…
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Fast Forward Arizona State University Sued Over Anti-BDS Law
(JTA) — A federal lawsuit filed against Arizona State University claims the school is violating the free speech of a student Muslim group by not allowing it to sponsor a speaker who promotes a boycott of Israel. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed the suit last week in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on behalf of…
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Fast Forward Ex-Argentina President Faces Trial For Jewish Center Bombing Cover Up
(JTA) — Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will go to trial over accusations that she covered up the alleged involvement of senior Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center. Eleven other former government officials also will be tried on charges involving the cover-up and abuse of power, a federal…
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