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Fast Forward Lithuanian President Shrugs Off Protest Over Jewish Cemetery Construction
(JTA) — The president of Lithuania dismissed concerns raised by 12 U.S. Congress members over the planned construction of a conference center atop what used to be a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius. Responding to a letter sent last month by the lawmakers about the Piramont cemetery, Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday told the BNS news agency…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Plans Landmark Visits To Argentina And Mexico
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu is planning trips to Argentina and Mexico in September that would make him the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America. Netanyahu is scheduled to visit the region before flying directly to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 19, according to The…
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Fast Forward Diamond Mogul Beny Steinmetz Arrested For Money Laundering
(JTA) — Police in Israel detained the businessman Beny Steinmetz and four others for questioning in a money-laundering investigation involving real estate deals abroad. The five were questioned on Monday under caution, meaning they are considered suspects in the case, the Times of Israel reported. The suspects were brought in for questioning on suspicion of…
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Fast Forward Israel Experts Defend H.R. McMaster
(JTA) — A former leader of Israel’s National Security Council defended U.S. National Security Adviser Herbert Raymond McMaster against claims that the American general is hostile to Israel. Yaakov Amidror, a reserves major-general of the Israel Defense Forces, defended McMaster, who was appointed in February, in a Jerusalem Post op-ed published Sunday, which Amidror co-authored with…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Victims’ Marriage Certificate Found Stuffed In Chimney
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Historians in the Netherlands are searching for relatives of a couple murdered in the Holocaust, whose marriage certificate was found concealed inside a chimney. Paul Harmens, a curator for the Overijssel Historical Center, told the Algemeen Dagblad daily last week that his institution has been searching for relatives of Siegfried de Groot…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Jewish Community Hires Security Guards
(JTA) — The Jewish community of Charlottesville, Virginia hired security guards for the first time in its history ahead of a far-right event that ended with a deadly attack on protesters against racism. Rabbi Tom Gutherz of Congregation Beth Israel told Haaretz Sunday that the move was deemed necessary ahead of Saturday, when 20-year-old white supremacist…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Group Sues New Jersey Town For Ordering Eruv Removal
(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish group has sued a town in New Jersey for ordering it to remove an eruv, or religious boundary, from utility poles in the town. The Bergen Rockland Eruv Association and two residents of Rockland County on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against the town of Mahwah, saying the town is…
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Fast Forward Arab Woman Stabs Israeli Man Near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab woman from eastern Jerusalem stabbed an Israeli man near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The victim was lightly injured in the Saturday afternoon stabbing attack, according to reports. He was taken to the Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus. The woman, 29 and a mother of…
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