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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Hit Car in Boston
A Jewish-owned car in the Boston area was keyed with a swastika and an anti-Semitic epithet. The car was vandalized on the eve of Passover. It was parked near a synagogue in the upscale Brighton neighborhood. A swastika was also scratched into a delivery truck parked nearby, according to a statement from the Anti-Defamation League….
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Fast Forward California Bans Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola
Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola has been barred from California. California’s new state laws on toxic chemicals are keeping kosher for Passover Coke out of the state, a company spokesman told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Coke was required to change the way it manufactures caramel due to the high levels of the chemical 4-methylimidazole, or…
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Fast Forward Montreal District Bans Parades Amid Tension
City officials in a Montreal borough have banned all street parades and processions in response to escalating tensions with the Chasidic community. The episode is the newest dispute between the expanding Chasidic community and its mostly secular neighbors in Outremont, a central district in Montreal. Outremont’s mayor and a majority of councilmen voted on April…
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Fast Forward Controversial Blogger Quits Media Watchdog
M.J. Rosenberg, the controversial critic of Israeli policies who drew fire for using the term “Israel firsters,” is leaving the liberal media watchdog, Media Matters. In what he billed as his last column for the group on Friday, Rosenberg said he would now blog on his own website MJayRosenberg.com. “The reason for this step is…
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Fast Forward Bernard Rapoport, Democratic Donor, Dies
Bernard Rapoport, a major backer of Bill Clinton and of Democrats, has died. B. Rapoport, as he was known, died Thursday night in Waco, in his native Texas, the Texas Tribune reported. He was 94. Rapoport, who made his fortune in the insurance industry, was close to the Clintons and a major backer of the…
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Fast Forward Canadian Faces Trial in 1980 Paris Bombing
An Ottawa professor has been ordered extradited to France, where he faces charges related to the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in Paris that killed four people. Canada’s Justice Minister, Rob Nicholson, issued the extradition order on April 4 against Hassan Diab, who teaches sociology at two Ottawa universities. The RCMP arrested Diab in November,…
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Fast Forward Fort Lauderdale Cemeteries Accused of Wrongdoing
A $200 million lawsuit alleged gross misconduct at a well-known Jewish cemetery in Florida. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Palm Beach Circuit Court, alleges that two cemeteries misplaced human remains, buried individuals in the wrong graves and improperly disposed of burial containers, the Sun Sentinel reported. The two cemeteries named in the suit are Star…
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Fast Forward Jonathan Pollard Hospitalized Outside Prison
Jonathan Pollard reportedly was hospitalized at a facility off his prison campus. Israel radio and representatives of Pollard’s wife reported Friday that Pollard was taken to a facility outside the Butner Federal Correctional Complex, the prison complex in North Carolina where he is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel. Butner has a medical…
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