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Fast Forward Two Rockets Fired From Sinai At Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two rockets were fired at southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula. The Code Red alert siren sounded in Israeli communities on the border with Gaza on Sunday night. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that two rockets were launched from Sinai. It is not known if the rockets fell in Israeli territory. The…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Vandalized In Uruguay
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Uruguayan Holocaust memorial rededicated last year was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti minimizing the Holocaust. “They have vandalized us again. What’s going on?” Montevideo Mayor Carlos Varela tweeted along with photos of the vandalized memorial. “We call for sanity, tolerance and peace,” he added. Unveiled in 1994, the site in the country’s…
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Fast Forward Kansas State Sukkah Damaged By Weather, Not Vandalism, Police Say
(JTA) — A sukkah erected on the campus of Kansas State University was damaged by severe weather and not vandalism as first reported. The sukkah was found bent, destroyed and wrapped around a car on the night of Oct.6. It was initially believed that the sukkah had been vandalized, since its pieces were found around the…
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Fast Forward National Front Politician Says ‘Jewish Cabal’ Controls French Far-Right Party
(JTA) — A far-right lawmaker who got suspended from France’s National Front party for equating immigrants and Nazis said she was a victim of a “cabal” headed by a Jewish party member. The conflict between the suspended senator Claudine Kauffmann and party spokesperson David Rachline erupted last week, further underscoring longstanding tensions and divisions within…
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Fast Forward Activist Threatened Over Ukraine City Honoring Nazi
(JTA) — An activist against fascism who sued a Ukrainian municipality for naming a street for a Nazi SS officer has come under a campaign of intimidation, he said. Mikhail Voroniak, a Red Army veteran, in summer sued the western municipality of Kalush near Lviv for deciding to name a street for Dmytro Paliiv, a…
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Fast Forward Canadian Rabbi Owns Omission Of Jews From Holocaust Monument
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Canadian rabbi who participated in the planning of a Holocaust memorial monument whose plaque omitted any reference to Jews apologized for what he said was inattentiveness. Rabbi Daniel Friedman of Edmonton made the apology in an interview this week with the Ottawa Citizen about a gaffe that ended with the removal…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Painted On Synagogue Sign In British City Of Leeds
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was daubed on a sign of a synagogue in northern England. The incident involving the Etz Chaim synagogue in Leeds was discovered earlier this week, when visitors saw a red swastika and the word “kikes” spray-painted on a sign affixed to the synagogue’s perimeter fence, the Jewish News of London reported…
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Fast Forward Poland To Partially Compensate Jews For Looted Property
(JTA) — The World Jewish Restitution Organization cautiously welcomed a Polish official’s announcement of plans to pass legislation offering partial compensation for property confiscated from private owners during communism. Polish Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki announced plans for the legislation on Wednesday, marking a break from the government’s previous reliance on individual court rulings to determine…
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