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Fast Forward Russian Firm Admits Using Stolen NSA Hacking Tool, Confirming Israeli Claim
(JTA) — The Russian company Kaspersky Lab confirmed that it had taken source code for a secret American hacking tool via its antivirus software. The company’s internal investigation came after Israeli intelligence discovered that Russian hackers were using the antivirus software to steal classified information from the United States. Kaspersky’s anti-virus program is used by 400 million…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Blames ‘Politics Of Anger’ For Corroding American Public Life
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Accepting the American Enterprise Institute’s annual Irving Kristol award, Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s chief rabbi emeritus, inveighed against a “politics of anger” he said was corroding the fabric of U.S. society. “The politics of anger that’s emerged in our time is full of danger,” Sacks said, speaking Tuesday night at the conservative institute’s…
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Fast Forward 3 New Jersey Towns Sued For Blocking Eruvs
(JTA) — Three New Jersey towns are being sued for legislating against the construction of an eruv in their borders. The frontrunner in the state’s gubernatorial race also criticized the towns’ actions in an op-ed in a local Jewish newspaper. A few New Jersey towns on the border with New York have been trying for…
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Fast Forward Ukraine President Mistakenly Tweets Photo Of Jews Deported By Nazis
(JTA) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in a post on Twitter added a picture of Jews being deported by Nazis to a text about mass deportations carried out by Soviets against Ukrainians. On Friday, Poroshenko, who rose to power in 2014 following a revolution fueled by anti-Russian sentiment and dissatisfaction over corruption, wrote on Twitter: “Today is…
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Fast Forward Polish Restitution Law Would Exclude Most Holocaust Survivors And Heirs
(JTA) — The Polish government has published draft legislation on the return of confiscated property that would exclude most Holocaust survivors and their families. The bill, which was announced Friday, would require claimants to be citizens living in Poland and exclude all heirs except “first-line heirs,” meaning spouses, children or grandchildren. Most Jews who survived…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Snaps Photos Of Argentine Jewish High School Students
(JTA) — A man wearing a hat and shirt bearing Nazi symbols was arrested in Buenos Aires after taking photos of students leaving a Jewish high school. Police detained the man, 62, on Monday outside of the ORT high school in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires after asking him to explain why he was…
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Fast Forward Snapshot With Gorgeous Israeli Soldier Sparks Controversy For Colombian Star
(JTA) — A photo published by a Colombian pop star posing beside an Israeli border police officer has led to a passionate debate among his nearly 30 million followers on social media. Singer Maluma, who performed in Tel Aviv on Oct. 12, shared on his Instagram account the picture with the smiling female Israeli border police…
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Fast Forward Polish Historian Who Said Nazi Invasion Not So Bad Is Honored
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish historian who said the country’s Nazi invasion was not so bad for Jews on Friday received a medal from the Polish Minister of National Education “for special merits for education.” Tomasz Panfil, who is responsible for education at the Institute of National Remembrance, earlier this month wrote an article in which…
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