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Fast Forward 60 Headstones Toppled At Connecticut Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) — Some 60 headstones were toppled in a Jewish cemetery in Hartford, Conn. The damage at the Ateres Knesseth Israel Cemetery was discovered on Friday, when a relative of someone buried there visited the gravesite. The woman who made the discovery told police that when she visited the cemetery on Monday, five days earlier,…
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Fast Forward Shuttered Bronx Synagogue Becomes A Dumping Ground
NEW YORK (JTA) — Neighbors of a shuttered synagogue in the Bronx want its apparent owners to clean up the trash that is accumulating on its property. Congregation Hope of Israel on Walton Avenue in the lower Grand Concourse neighborhood — once the hub of a vibrant Jewish community in the New York City borough…
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Fast Forward 3 Israelis Killed In West Bank Stabbing Attack
(JTA) — Two Israelis were reportedly killed and one wounded in a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement north of Ramallah. Two men, in their 40s and 60s, and a woman in her 40s reportedly died of their wounds, while a woman in her 60s was seriously injured in the stabbing attack in the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Reject Trump’s ‘Baseless’ Voter Fraud Commission
(JTA) — A coalition of faith organizations, more than half of them Jewish, issued a statement objecting to a presidential commission investigating what the 24 signatories called “baseless claims” of widespread voter fraud. In the letter sent to members of Congress Thursday, the coalition urged lawmakers not to fund the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,…
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Fast Forward 3 Palestinians Killed As Jerusalem Erupts Over Temple Mount
Three Palestinians were killed in clashes between rioters and police in Jerusalem and the West Bank over the Israeli government’s decision to keep in place indefinitely metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount, the Palestinian media reported. Thousands of Israeli soldiers and troops were deployed in eastern Jerusalem following riots Thursday, which resumed…
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Fast Forward Turkish Jews Condemn Anti-Israel Rally Outside Istanbul Synagogue
(JTA) — Leaders of Turkish Jewry condemned demonstrators who rallied around a synagogue in Istanbul to protest against Israel, including men who kicked the building’s doors and hurled objects at it. The Turkish Jewish Community on Twitter called the incident Thursday night outside the Neve Shalom synagogue, where several dozen men gathered with anti-Israel signs,…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Name Still Used To Lure Chinese In Visa-For-Cash Scheme
(JTA) — Jared Kushner’s status as a top aide to President Donald Trump was used to lure Chinese investors to his family’s real-estate company, even after it had apologized for mentioning his name during a sales pitch in May, CNN reported. References to Kushner are part of online promotions by two businesses that are working…
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Fast Forward Jewish Senate Candidate Condemns ADL, Backs ‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy Theorists
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Josh Mandel, the Ohio state treasurer who is running for the Republican nomination for U.S. senator, expressed solidarity with figures listed by the Anti-Defamation League as having a “hateful impact” on the political scene. “Sad to see @ADL_National become a partisan witchhunt group targeting people for political beliefs,” Mandel said Thursday on…
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