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Fast Forward Toulouse Massacre Sparks Anti-Semitic ‘Explosion’
The recent massacre at a Jewish school in Toulouse “triggered an explosion” in anti-Semitic attacks across France, according to the French Jewish community’s protection service. The Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive, or SPCJ, made the observation in a statement about its report released Monday, which documented more than 90 anti-Semitic incidents in the…
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Fast Forward Nazi Name Parents Can’t Raise Children: Judge
A New Jersey couple who gave their children names linked to Nazism cannot have custody of their children, a judge ruled. The children of Heath and Deborah Campbell have been in state custody for the last three years, since a local supermarket refused to print Adolf Hitler Campbell’s full name on a cake for his…
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Fast Forward Bloomberg and Cuomo March in Israel Parade
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were among the dignitaries who marched in Sunday’s annual Celebrate Israel Parade in the Big Apple. They joined tens of thousands of marchers who paraded up Fifth Avenue under blue, sunny skies amid a sea of blue-and-white Israeli flags….
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Fast Forward French Jews Attacked in Hate Crime
Three Jews wearing yarmulkes were assaulted by 10 people in southeast France in what the French Interior Ministry is calling an anti-Semitic attack. The attack, which occurred on Saturday and was announced by the Interior Ministry on Sunday, took place in Villeurbanne, located near Lyon. The attackers, who used a hammer and an iron bar,…
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Fast Forward CUNY Angers Some With ‘Jewish’ Category
City University of New York has created a new faculty demographic category of White/Jewish in a report on its Demographic Action Plan. The designation has angered some university faculty, both Jewish and non-Jewish, according to the New York Post. The plan, issued last month by CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, is to assist in boosting the…
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Fast Forward Texas Prof Ousted After Fight Over Crosses
A Jewish lecturer at Texas A&M University-San Antonio says she has not been asked back to teach because she complained about crosses placed near the entrance of the public university. Sissy Bradford, who lectured on criminology at the university, said she received hate mail both physically and electronically, including death threats, the San Antonio Express…
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Fast Forward Asian Jews Gather Near China’s Great Wall
Jews from throughout Asia gathered near the Great Wall of China to learn about their Judaism. The Limmud International program, also supported by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, brought nearly 100 Jews from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, the Philippines, Japan, and Singapore, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States,…
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Fast Forward Cuba: Alan Gross Has Received Perks
The daughter of Cuban head of state Raul Castro said that jailed American Alan Gross “has been granted everything that he’s asked for.” In an interview on CNN to be aired Monday, June 4, Mariela Castro told host Christiane Amanpour: “Alan Gross has been granted everything that he’s asked for: he has been able to…
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