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Fast Forward British Couple Eyed in Anti-Jewish Plot
A couple in Manchester, England, allegedly purchased items for homemade bombs to be used against Jewish targets, a court in that city was told. “It was jihad at home,” prosecutor Bobbie Cheema told the Manchester crown court on Thursday, according to the Guardian. “Between them they acquired substances, common or garden, that can be purchased…
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Fast Forward Latvian Quits Over Holocaust Restitution Plan
Latvian Justice Minister Gaidis Berzins has resigned in protest of plans to offer restitution for Jewish property seized after the Holocaust. Berzins, chair of the rightist All For Latvia-For Fatherland and Freedom Party, announced his resignation on Wednesday, the country’s news agency Leta reported. In 2006, the Latvian parliament blocked a bill proposing $55 million…
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Fast Forward Hungarian Jews Feel ‘Increasing Danger’
Hungarian Jews “feel increasing danger” in a country with a government that condones anti-Semitism, the president of Hungary’s Jewish community said. Peter Feldmajer, president of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, made the remarks Tuesday at a conference on anti-Semitism in the European Parliament in Brussels. Though Hungarian government officials say they want to combat…
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Fast Forward Slovakia Opens First-Ever Jewish Museum
The Jewish community in Bratislava has inaugurated a community-run Jewish museum in the women’s gallery of the only synagogue in the Slovak capital. Officially opened this week, the museum displays Judaica and other items owned by the Jewish community or donated by individual members. “It tells a story, our story, that dates back centuries,” Jewish…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman Detained at Western Wall
Israeli police detained a woman wearing a tallit at the Western Wall and later questioned her for four hours. The woman was participating Thursday in a rosh chodesh prayer service held monthly at the Wall by the Women of the Wall organization. Police were present during the service and filmed it, according to Women of…
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Fast Forward ADL Slams Jews for Mosque Attacks
The Anti-Defamation League said repeated attacks by Jewish extremists on mosques are “unacceptable.” “Mosques are repeatedly being subjected to attack by Jewish extremists and this activity is completely unacceptable,” Abraham Foxman, ADL’s national director, said in a statement Tuesday after vandals burned and defaced a mosque in Jabaa, a village near Ramallah, apparently in response…
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Fast Forward GOP Jewish Liaison Quits Over Anti-Zionist Ties
The Jewish outreach official for New York Republicans quit not long after he was hired because of revelations of his ties to an anti-Zionist haredi group. Yossi Gestetner, named June 12 as director of Jewish Outreach for the New York Republican State Committee, quit Wednesday after The Jewish Channel published a detailed account of his…
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Fast Forward Bolivians Vow To Consider Jailed Hasid’s Case
The chairman of the House human rights subcommittee said he was told by two Bolivian Cabinet ministers that they would look into the case of a jailed Brooklyn Chasidic Jewish man. U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) said in a statement that Minister of Government Carlos Romero and Minister of Justice Cecilia Luisa Ayllon, with whom…
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