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Fast Forward Rome Marks Anniversary of Synagogue Bombing
Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano participated in a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of a terror attack on Rome’s main synagogue that killed a toddler. Speaking Wednesday at the commemoration in Rome, the city’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, said the Oct. 9, 1982 attack had not been an “isolated event.” Di Segni said it had…
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Fast Forward Israel Lawmaker Seeks To Block Olmert Run
Likud Party lawmaker Tzipi Hotovely reportedly petitioned Israel’s Central Elections Committee to prevent former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from running for office. Israel’s Army Radio reported that Hotovely asked committee chair Elyakim Rubinstein, a Supreme Court justice and former attorney general, to disqualify Olmert, the former leader of the centrist Kadima Party, from contending in…
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Fast Forward Malmo Jews Not Cowed by New Attack
Hours after the late-night explosion outside the Jewish community center in Malmo, Sweden, the scent of baking challah already was wafting from the center’s ovens into the chilly morning air, as it does every Friday morning. Later, the Jewish preschool at the site would open as usual. A smashed bulletproof glass window and two police…
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Fast Forward Italian Women Object to Monument to Fascist
A new Italian women’s group has added its voice to protests over a publicly funded monument honoring the World War II-era fascist leader Rodolfo Graziani. The leadership of Binah, an all-women Jewish party represented on the board of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, recently urged Italian Jewish leaders to take urgent measures against what…
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Fast Forward 1M American Jews Seek Identity Outside Shul
Some 1 million American Jews – or one in 6 – are actively seeking Jewish expression and engagement outside of synagogue life, according to a new study. The results of a study released by the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring break down the notion that American Jews either are affiliated with synagogues or have a Jewish identity…
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Fast Forward Israeli Rabbi Steals Torah Scrolls From Shul
Police in Israel have reportedly arrested a rabbi suspected of stealing Torah scrolls from the synagogue of his community near Be’er Sheva. Kikar HaShabat, a hebrew-language news site on religious affairs, reported that police requested on Oct. 10 that the Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court remand the suspect for a further 24 hours. He had been…
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Fast Forward London Police Probe Jewish School Attack
Police in the London area are reportedly investigating a suspected arson attack at a Jewish primary school. The fire at the Talmud Torah Toldos Yakov Yoser school in Hackney, a north-eastern London borough, occurred on the night of Sept. 28, a Friday, and did not result in any injuries, The Jewish Chronicle reported. The paper…
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Fast Forward French Police Bust Anti-Jewish Bomb Lab
French police have linked an explosives lab which they discovered near Paris to alleged members of a Jihadist cell suspected of the recent bombing of a Jewish store. On Oct. 9, French police officers discovered firearms and “all the elements necessary to produce explosive devices” at a parking lot in the eastern Paris suburb of…
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