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News Bulgarian Jews Reeling After Deadly Bombing
Until this week, leaders of Bulgaria’s small, generally placid Jewish community said they felt untouched by hate crimes or terrorism. But after Wednesday’s apparent suicide bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Black Sea city of Borgas, Jews in the country are speaking of a basic change in their sense of security. “We…
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Fast Forward Germany Had a Month Warning of Munich Plot
Germany was warned about a possible terror attack against Israeli athletes one month before the Munich Olympics in 1972, Der Spiegel reported. The weekly magazine reported Sunday on its website that though solid warnings of an attack plan were received a month before the Games, no action was taken. The Palestinian terrorists, for example, were…
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Fast Forward Hollande Admits Jews Rounded Up ‘By France’
The roundup of thousands of Jews in Paris during World War II was a crime “committed in France, by France,” French President Francois Hollande said. Hollande was speaking Sunday at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the largest French roundup of Jews. Some 13,000 French Jews were deported on July 16-17, 1942 from…
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Fast Forward Israel Denies Report of Olympic Terror Plot
Israel is denying a report that it is on the lookout for a terrorist group made up of converts to Islam that is planning to attack Israeli targets at the London Olympics. The Sunday Times UK reported that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency “is hunting a group of white Europeans who are thought to have converted…
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Fast Forward Search On for Accomplices in Bulgaria Bombing
Bulgarian police are still searching for accomplices to the suicide bomber that killed six on an Israeli tour bus in Burgas. One accomplice is believed to have been a backup for the suicide bomber, the Novinite.com website reported, and is likely to still be in Bulgaria, possibly with another bomb. The second was set to…
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Fast Forward ‘Batman’ Shooter Worked at Jewish Summer Camp
The alleged shooter who killed 12 in a crowded Colorado movie theater worked at a Jewish summer camp for underprivileged children. James Holmes spent a summer working as a counselor for Camp Max Straus in Glendale, Calif., which is run by Jewish Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported….
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Fast Forward Boy Killed When Sand Tunnel Collapses
Jews in Ocean Township, N.J., buried a 12-year-old boy, Ezra Cornman, who died a day after a sand tunnel he was digging on a beach collapsed on him. The boy was visiting the beach in Long Branch, N.J., on Tuesday afternoon when he was buried by sand in the 2- to 3-foot hole in which…
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Fast Forward American Jews Condemn Bible-Ripping Lawmaker
Several U.S. Jewish groups condemned the public destruction of a copy of the New Testament by Israeli Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari. Ben-Ari, a member of the National Union Party and reportedly a devotee of the late Meir Kahane, invited a legislative aide to photograph him ripping up a New Testament and throwing it in the…
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