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Fast Forward Guma Aguiar Left Tefillin on Ghost Yacht
Guma Aguiar, a Florida businessman and philanthropist who went missing in June, left his tefillin on his abandoned boat. All of the life jackets also were accounted for, the Coast Guard reported, according to the Sun-Sentinel, after getting the records through a Freedom of Information Act request. His wedding ring and watch were left at…
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Fast Forward S. African University Says No to Israel Boycott
Witwatersrand University in South Africa has distanced itself from a student association decision to boycott Israel. In a statement released Monday, the university said that it does not share the initiative of the Wits Student Representative Council, adopted Aug. 31, which calls for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and for further support of…
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News Tribute to Disappearing Jews of Friesland
When Jacob Nathan de Leeuwe found himself returning nearly two decades ago from his home in a suburb of Amsterdam to this isolated idyll he calls “the end of the world,” it undoubtedly was the pull of his roots. De Leeuwe’s family had lived in this semi-autonomous region in the northern Netherlands known as Friesland…
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Fast Forward Indian Clothing Store Drops ‘Hitler’ Name
The owners of a men’s clothing store in the Indian state of Gujarat said they would change the store’s name from Hitler. The store in Ahmedabad is named for one of the proprietor’s grandfather, whose nickname was Hitler. He reportedly was called Hitler “because of his strict nature,” according to The Times of India. Shop…
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Fast Forward Christian Monastery Torched by Angry Settlers
A Christian monastery was vandalized and set alight in what appears to be a price tag attack. The door of the Latrun Monastery was set on fire early Tuesday morning, and the names of West Bank outposts were spray-painted on the walls, as was the epithet “Jesus is a monkey.” No one was injured in…
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Fast Forward Polish Pogrom Memorial Probe Fails To ID Culprits
A yearlong investigation into anti-Semitic epithets painted on the memorial to the Jedwabne pogrom was closed. The Lomza District Prosecutor ended the investigation on Monday after being unable to locate the perpetrators. In August 2011, graffiti painted on the wall next to the monument in Jedwabne read “I do not apologize for Jedwabne” and “They…
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Fast Forward Settlers Evict Family From Room of Jerusalem Home
A room and a courtyard of a Palestinian family home in eastern Jerusalem were turned over to Jewish residents. On Sunday, the room was sealed off from the rest of the house with metal sheeting and barbed wire, according to reports. A Palestinian couple and their 2-year-old son had lived in the room. Seventeen other…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Organize Against Metzitzah B’Peh Forms
Haredi Orthodox rabbis in New York are accusing the city’s Department of Health of “spreading lies” in order to pass a law mandating that parents sign a consent waiver in order to use a controversial circumcision-related rite. The health department is scheduled to vote next week on the waiver for the use of direct oral-genital…
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