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Fast Forward French Comedian Makes Holocaust Joke On Prime-Time Broadcast
(JTA) — A public broadcaster in France is being criticized for airing a Belgian comedienne’s joke about the Holocaust. France 2 aired the joke by Laura Laune, 31, on Friday in its 8 p.m. news journal. A winner of the 2017 season of the French counterpart of the America’s Got Talent show, she was seen…
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Fast Forward 11% Of American Jews Say They Don’t Feel Safe: Poll
(JTA) — In a survey conducted online among hundreds of respondents who identified as Jews, 27 percent of Europeans and 11 percent of Americans said they felt unsafe. In the World Zionist Organization survey, which was conducted last year among a total of 1,361 respondents, 51 percent of those in Europe said that wearing Jewish…
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Fast Forward Italian Jewish Holocaust Survivor Named Senator For Life
ROME (JTA) – Italy has conferred one of its highest honors on one of the few Italian Jews who survived Auschwitz. In a decree issued Friday, Italian President Sergio Mattarella named Liliana Segre, 87, a Senator for Life – and he personally phoned her to tell her the news. The recognition was announced in the run-up…
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Fast Forward Israeli Protesters Disrupt Attorney General’s Prayers For Dead Mother
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Anti-corruption protesters accosted Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit as he said Kaddish for his deceased mother. The incident occurred on Saturday night outside of a synagogue in Petah Tikvah near Mandelblit’s home. The worshippers had stepped outside of the synagogue to participate in the prayers that bless the new moon and Mandelblit…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Defends Deportation Of Africans — Insists They Aren’t Refugees
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that Israeli will deport what he called illegal migrants who came to Israel to find work. “We are not acting against refugees. We are acting against illegal migrants who come here not as refugees but for work needs. Israel will continue to offer asylum for genuine…
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Fast Forward Kosher Restaurateur Says Rabbis Shun Him Over Non-Jewish Wife
(JTA) — The owner of a high end, glatt kosher restaurant claimed in a lawsuit that local rabbis are forcing him out of the kosher community because his wife isn’t Jewish. Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, in a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court, alleges that his landlord Moses Marx and…
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Fast Forward Barry And Honey Sherman Murdered: Private Investigators
(JTA) — Billionaire philanthropist Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, were murdered in their Toronto home by more than one killer, private investigators believe. The finding, reported by CBC Toronto citing a source with direct knowledge of the private investigation, contradicts the theory that the deaths were a murder-suicide, a theory which has been rejected by…
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Fast Forward New Orleans Mayor Walks Back Support Of Pro-BDS Resolution
(JTA) — New Orleans Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell has walked back her support for a resolution she authored and supported that lends support to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The resolution to boycott investments with human rights violators, which passed the New Orleans City Council on Jan. 11 with all five members present voting in support, mentions neither…
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