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Fast Forward Gal Gadot Speaks Hebrew, Dates O.J. Simpson While Hosting ‘SNL’
(JTA) — Gal Gadot, during her first time as host of “Saturday Night Live,” spoke Hebrew, kissed SNL cast member Kate McKinnon and went on a date with O.J. Simpson. Gadot opened her stint on the show with a monologue in which she switched to Hebrew to address her friends and family back in Israel,…
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Fast Forward Mourners Call Murder Of Israeli Settler A Terror Attack
(JTA) — Thousands of people gathered in the West Bank settlement of Elkana for the funeral of a resident whose body was found near an Arab village. Reuven Schmerling’s body was found near Kafr Kassem, an Arab-Israeli village, on Wednesday with severe signs of extreme violence, the Israel Broadcasting Corporation reported. Police and the Israel…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Arrests 3 Accused Of Targeting Jews In Uman
(JTA) — Ukrainian police arrested three men they said were terrorists who, in their efforts to pit ethnic groups against one another, also targeted Jews in the central city of Uman. The men were arrested earlier this month at a border crossing while carrying explosives, according to the KP news site. Citing unnamed officials from…
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Fast Forward French Girl Hospitalized After Anti-Semitic Assault
(JTA) — A 10-year-old girl was assaulted by her classmates and the home of a family was daubed with racist graffiti in two Paris-area incidents deemed anti-Semitic. The alleged assault was reported to France’s ministry of education by the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, the watchdog group wrote in a statement on…
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Fast Forward Jewish Pianist MIkhail Klein Dies On Stage In Russia
(JTA) — The celebrated pianist Mikhail Klein collapsed and died on stage at the age of 72 while performing his own composition in his hometown of Irkutsk. Klein, who in 1987 was awarded the prestigious title of Honored Artist of Russia, died at the foot of a grand piano of the Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra on…
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Fast Forward Warsaw Jewish Museum Hits 1 Million Visitor Milestone
(JTA) — Less than three years after it opening, the core exhibition of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews registered a million visitors. The millionth ticket was bought by a Polish couple, Barbara and Sławomir, from the city of Szczecin in northwest Poland, a museum spokeswoman, Zaneta Czyżniewska, wrote in a statement…
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Fast Forward Polish Historian Says Nazi Invasion ‘Not Very Bad’ For Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The Polish Institute of National Remembrance has distanced itself from one of its historians who wrote in an op-ed that the situation of the Jews “did not look very bad” after the Nazis entered Poland. The piece by Tomasz Panfil, the historian responsible for education at the Polish Institute of National…
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Fast Forward Brookyn Rabbi Handcuffed At Gunpoint By Police During Traffic Stop
(JTA) — A Brooklyn rabbi was left traumatized by an incident in which a Vermont state trooper ordered him at gunpoint to lie down after he failed to pull over his car, his son said. Rabbi Berl Fink did not pull over for more than 4 miles when the officer, Justin Thompson, flashed his blue…
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