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Fast Forward Right-Wingers Arrested for Plotting Against IDF
Six right-wing Jewish activists reportedly were arrested at their homes in the West Bank and Jerusalem for gathering intelligence on Israeli troop movements. The suspects were arrested early Thursday morning in a joint operation by the Israeli police and the Shin Bet in Jerusalem and the West Bank settlements of Yitzhar, Itamar, Harsha, and Kiryat…
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Fast Forward Atlanta Synagogue Members Face Harassment
Members of an Atlanta-area synagogue have been facing harassment. Bagels have been left on the lawns of and tied to the trees of members of Congregation Beth Jacob in DeKalb County, Ga., the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Eggs have also been thrown at people walking out of the synagogue, according to the newspaper. In addition, cars…
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Tabloid Paper Spouts Anti-Semitism
The Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed “disgust and outrage” over the front-page of a Lithuanian tabloid newspaper that it termed a “blatantly anti-Semitic attack on the Lithuanian Jewish community.” The front page of the Dec. 21 edition of the Lithuanian tabloid “Vakaro Zionios” bore a large picture of the Vilnius Chabad Rabbi, Sholom-Ber Krinsky, in his…
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Fast Forward Australia Jews Hit by Anti-Semitic Incident
A pig’s head was hung from a tree outside an apartment block in a heavily populated Jewish neighborhood in Sydney. The pig’s head, an insult to Judaism, was spotted by a Jewish resident as she exited the apartment block on Dec. 25. Neither the police nor the State Emergency Services responded to the incident, according…
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Fast Forward Iran Threatens To Block Mideast Oil
Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz if its oil exports are subjected to foreign sanctions, the Islamic Republic’s official news agency reported. “If they impose sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, then even one drop of oil cannot flow from the Straits of Hormuz,” IRNA quoted Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Iran’s first vice-president, as saying, referring…
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Fast Forward Handler, Ex-Brandeis Leader, Killed in Car Crash
Evelyn Handler, who served as the fifth president of Brandeis University from 1983 to 1991, was killed last Friday after being struck by a car. Handler was crossing a street in Bedford, N.H. to meet her husband, Eugene, when she was hit. She was taken to Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. where she was…
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Fast Forward Germany Adds Payouts to Holocaust Victims
Germany has agreed to changes to one of its restitution programs that will add payouts of approximately $3,300 to some 10,000 Jews, the Claims Conference announced. The changes, which will affect the Hardship Fund, will expand the class of World War II survivors eligible for one-time payouts to those who fled Soviet areas between June…
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Fast Forward Thousands To Protest Treatment of Women
Watch a live feed from the rally JERUSALEM —Thousands are expected to participate in a rally in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh against women’s exclusion and violence against females by haredi Orthodox men. The rally is set to be held Tuesday evening near a national religious girls school which has been at the center…
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