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Fast Forward American Groups Launch $5M Rocket Victim Fund
U.S. Jewish groups launched a $5 million “terror relief fund” in the wake of hostilities between Israel and the Gaza Strip. “This new Fund will help support the more than one million residents of Israel’s South and provide aid to those who are victims and the most vulnerable Israelis during this time of conflict,” said…
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Fast Forward Two Baltimore Day Schools Will Close
Two non-denominational Baltimore Jewish day schools will close at the end of the school year to make way for a new one. The Shoshana S. Cardin School and the Day School at Baltimore Hebrew announced Wednesday that they will close at the end of the school year and on July 1, The Independent Jewish Academy…
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News Anti-Semitic Scrawl Left on Beverly Hills Package
Beverly Hills police asked the public’s help in identifying people who placed a package covered in anti-Semitic text in front of a Chanel store. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that police are searching for seven people believed connected to a package found in front of the Chanel store on Rodeo Drive that was at…
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Fast Forward Jewel Box Hidden From Nazis Returned to Son
The mayor of Amersfoort in the Netherlands returned a box of jewels to a Jewish man 70 years after his parents hid the box in their pharmacy. According to De Telegraaf, a Dutch daily, the parents of 73-year-old Bert Manasse hid the box in the cellar of the building and fled to Soest, a nearby…
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Fast Forward California Synagogue Hit With Swastikas
A temple in an upscale neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., was vandalized. Two-foot tall swastikas and the words “Nazi” were painted in red spray-paint on the front of the Temple Israel building on Monday night. Temple Israel is the oldest Reform synagogue between Los Angeles and San Diego, the Long Beach Post reported. Long Beach…
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Fast Forward Argentina Won’t Release Bombing Talks Info
Argentina’s Foreign Ministry rejected a request from the Jewish community and survivors of the AMIA Jewish center bombing for information about current negotiations with Iran over the case. The ministry’s attorney, Agustin Medrano, said late last week in refusing the request made through the judiciary that “as a process of diplomatic negotiations between States, the…
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Fast Forward Students Mount Anti-Israel Protest at Rome Shul
Protesters chanted anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian slogans outside the main Rome synagogue during mass student protests that blocked the city center and saw violent clashes between police and demonstrators in several parts of the city. Tens of thousands of people in dozens of Italian cities reportedly took part in strikes and demonstrations Wednesday protesting the economic…
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Fast Forward California Students Call for Israel Divestment
The student senate of the University of California, Irvine unanimously passed a non-binding resolution calling on the school to divest from companies doing business with Israel. All 16 members of the legislative council of the Associated Students of UCI voted for the resolution on Tuesday that calls on the university to divest from companies that…
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