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Fast Forward Marc Chagall’s Belarus Hometown Celebrates First Synagogue In Century
(JTA) — The hometown in Belarus of the late artist Marc Chagall saw its first opening of a synagogue in over a century. The Jewish community of Vitebsk, which is located 155 miles northeast of the Belarusian capital of Minsk, last month celebrated the inauguration of the new synagogue. Vitebsk’s rabbi, Malkiel Gorgodze, affixed a…
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Fast Forward Bomb Threat Shuts Florida Jewish Museum For Balfour Declaration Event
(JTA) — An event scheduled to take place at the Jewish Museum of Florida on the Balfour Declaration was cancelled following a bomb threat. Law enforcement apprehended a Florida International University student after he allegedly issued the threat ahead of the event, which was slated to take place Thursday, the American Jewish Committee’s Miami office…
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Fast Forward Toulouse Killer’s Brother Jailed For Terrorism But Cleared Of Murder
(JTA) — In what French Jews decried as judicial “weakness,” a Paris court sentenced the brother of a jihadist from Toulouse to 20 years in prison for terrorism in 2012 but cleared him of murder charges. Abdelkader Merah, whose brother, Moahmmed Merah in 2012 killed three soldiers and four Jews, including three children at a…
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Fast Forward Where Did All The Canadian Jews Go?
(JTA) — The Jewish community in Canada is taking issue with new census figures showing the country’s Jewish population falling 56 percent over the past five years. The decline to 143,665 in 2016 from 329,500 in 2011 was the largest drop for any ethnic group recorded in the Statistics Canada census data released last week….
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Fast Forward Billionaire Trump Backer Robert Mercer Sells Breitbart Stake Over Racism Claims
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Robert Mercer, a billionaire backer of President Donald Trump, is selling his stake in the right-wing news site Breitbart, citing in part what he said were scurrilous allegations that he is a white supremacist. Mercer in his statement Thursday did not name an immediate predicate to his decisions, but did note that…
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Fast Forward Right-Wing Israeli Lawmaker Compares Non-Orthodox Jews To Dogs
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A haredi Orthodox lawmaker in Israel appeared to compare non-Orthodox Jews to dogs amid sparring over the Western Wall plan at a Knesset committee meeting. Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements in the United States, as well as other guests representing American and non-Orthodox groups, were on hand Wednesday for the…
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Fast Forward Birthright Slammed For Scrapping Interaction With Arabs
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Reform movement criticized Birthright Israel for stopping meetings between Jewish participants in the free trip and Arab Israelis. Birthright’s education department in recent days ordered its trip providers to stop including the meetings with the Arab citizens of Israel, Haaretz first reported on Wednesday. The program first began adding such meetings…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Surge: ADL Study
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League reported that anti-Semitic incidents in the first nine months of 2017 have risen 67 percent since the same period last year. If the current pace holds, they will nearly double the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2015. There was also a 92 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in New York…
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