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Fast Forward 2 Israelis Killed In Terror Attack At West Bank ‘Coexistence’ Industrial Zone
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israelis were killed and another injured in a terror attack in the Barkan industrial area in the West Bank. The attack took place on Sunday morning shortly before 8:00 at the beginning of the work week in the settlement’s industrial zone that is home to 160 factories that employ thousands of…
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Fast Forward Israel Closes Roads Near Gaza Border After Veiled Threat To Hamas
(JTA) — Israeli security forces closed off roads near the Gaza Strip in an unusual move that comes hours after the country’s defense minister tacitly threatened military action against Hamas. Ahead of the four road closures Friday, Avigdor Liberman on Thursday noted in a Twitter message that the Israel Defense Forces have “exacted a heavy…
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Fast Forward Walter Laqueur, Holocaust Survivor Who Reinvented Terrorism Studies, Dies At 97
(JTA) — Walter Laqueur, a Holocaust survivor and one of the 20th century’s most prominent scholars, has died. Laqueur passed away at his home in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. He was 97. Born in Wroclaw, Poland, and raised in Breslau, Germany, he was a teenager when his parents sent him to Mandatory Palestine only days before the…
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Fast Forward Trump Mocks Al Franken’s Senate Resignation Over Sexual Misconduct Claims
(JTA) — President Trump mocked former Senator Al Franken for resigning quickly from office when faced with a sexual misconduct allegation. “That guy was wacky. Boy, did he fold up like a wet rag,” Trump told a rally Thursday night in Rochester, Minn. to cheers. “Man, he was gone so fast,” The New York Post quoted…
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Fast Forward Woman Who Faked Being Jewish To Avoid Extradition Convicted Of Murder
(JTA) — A Puerto Rican woman who falsified documents to show she was Jewish and explored moving to Israel in order to avoid extradition from Italy to the United States was found guilty of murder by a U.S. court. Aurea Vazquez Rijos was convicted Wednesday of offering millions of dollars to a hitman who killed…
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Fast Forward NASA Signs Deal With Israel Space Agency For Lunar Mission
JERUSALEM (JTA) — NASA has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency and the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL to collaborate on the Jewish state’s unmanned moon mission slated to launch from Cape Canaveral next year. The landing would culminate eight years of collaboration on the $88 million project. If it succeeds, Israel will become the…
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Fast Forward Trump Signs Law Expanding Hate Crime Protections To Religious Institutions
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump enacted a law that expands hate crime protections to religious institutions. The bill signed last Friday by Trump, Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act, was prompted in part by a series of bomb threats last year against Jewish institutions. The American Jewish Committee on Wednesday praised the passage of the…
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Fast Forward Chicago Kosher Supervisor Shot Dead On Simchat Torah
CHICAGO (JTA) — Eliyahu Moscowitz, a kosher supervisor at a supermarket, was shot dead in Chicago on Simchat Torah in what local residents fear might be a killing spree. Moscowitz, 24, was shot once in the head and left for dead on a rainy Monday night in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, just a mile…
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