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Fast Forward Hadassah Hospital Opens New Tower
Hadassah Hospital opened a new $363 million tower that will relieve patient overcrowding. Patients began moving into the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at Hadassah-Ein Kerem in Jerusalem on Monday. Patients from eight departments are scheduled to transfer to the tower in coming weeks. Fourteen of the 20 tower’s operating rooms and intensive care…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Launches Daily Prayer App
The iPad app for the Mishkan T’filah, the Reform movement’s daily prayer book, was launched. The new application, which costs less than $5, was launched at the annual gathering of the Central Council of American Rabbis that began Sunday in Boston. More than 500 rabbis from North America, Israel and Europe are attending the three-day…
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News French Jews Shaken by Attack
When Arié Bensemhoun, a Jewish community leader in Toulouse, woke up Tuesday morning, he thought for a moment that the horrific shooting of three children and a rabbi at a local Jewish school might have been just a bad dream. Like others in the close-knit Jewish community in the southern French city, Bensemhoun said he…
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Fast Forward French Neo-Nazis Quizzed on Toulouse Killings
Three former French soldiers who were believed to be involved in the shooting attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse were questioned and released by French police. The men, who were dismissed from the military in 2008 for posing with a Nazi flag, have been eliminated as suspects, the French news agency AFP reported Tuesday….
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Fast Forward E.U. Chief: School Shooting Recalls Gaza Deaths
Israeli leaders condemned remarks by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton which appeared to compare the Toulouse victims to deaths in Gaza. At a conference Monday in Brussels on Palestinian refugees, Ashton reportedly said: “When we think about what happened today in Toulouse, we remember what happened in Norway last year, we know what…
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Fast Forward Parisians March in Memory of Toulouse Victims
Thousands silently demonstrated Monday evening in Paris to pay tribute to the four victims of a shooting attack at a Jewish school in southwestern France. A man riding a motorbike opened fire Monday morning outside the Ozar Hatorah School in Toulouse, where students were waiting to enter the building at the start of the school…
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Fast Forward Toulouse Gun Tied to Attacks on Soldiers
The shooting attack that killed four people – a teacher and three students – at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, has been linked to recent deadly attacks on French soldiers, forensic tests indicate. A man riding a motorbike reportedly opened fire Monday morning outside the Ozar Hatorah School, where students were waiting to enter…
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News European Jews Condemn Toulouse Attack
The attack by an unidentified gunman on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France was condemned by Jewish leaders, who also warned against the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe. “Whoever did this is looking to target the Jewish community at its weakest point, its youth, in the hopes of spreading fear throughout the community,” said…
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