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Fast Forward Spokane Community Building Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — A building housing community support services and non-profit groups in downtown Spokane, Washington was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. The epithets written in chalk on the side of the building were discovered on Friday morning. Among the anti-Semitic statements were: “Hitler did nothing wrong,” “Gas the Kikes,” and “Juden Raus,” German for Jews Out….
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Fast Forward Bullet Fired Through Front Door Of Milwaukee Jewish School
A bullet was fired through the front door of a Jewish elementary school in Milwaukee — but a school official insisted there was “no real security issue.” No one was injured when the bullet hit the glass front door of the Yeshiva Elementary School in Milwaukee on Friday morning. The bullet broke the glass but…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Lays Wreath At Holocaust Memorial
Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, visited a Holocaust memorial in Marseille days after news that her choice for interim party head had denied aspects of the Holocaust. Le Pen on Sunday laid a wreath at a memorial in Marseille to French victims of the Holocaust. The memorial was erected…
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Fast Forward Trump Proclaims Jewish Heritage Month
President Donald Trump declared May 2017 Jewish American Heritage Month in a proclamation. “During Jewish American Heritage Month, we celebrate our nation’s strong American Jewish heritage, rooted in the ancient faith and traditions of the Jewish people. The small band of Dutch Jews who first immigrated in 1654, seeking refuge and religious liberty, brought with…
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Fast Forward London Knife Suspect ID’d As Activist From Mavi Marmara Gaza Flotilla
The man arrested carrying a knapsack full of knives near the 10 Downing Street office of British Prime Minister Theresa May was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara when it was raided by Israeli soldiers in 2010. The suspect arrested Thursday on suspicion of planning a terrorist act was identified on Friday as Khalid Omar…
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Fast Forward North Korea Threatens Israel With ‘Merciless’ Punishment
North Korea threatened Israel with “merciless, thousand-fold punishment” and labeled it the only “illegal possessor” of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The country’s Foreign Ministry in Pyongyang issued a statement blasting Israel on Saturday, after Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in an interview with the Hebrew-language news website Walla! called North Korean leader Kim…
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Fast Forward Jewish Couple Dies Minutes Apart Holding Hands — After 69 Years Of Marriage
A Chicago Jewish couple who were married for 69 years died moments apart in the same hospital room while holding hands. Teresa Vatkin, 89, died at 12:10 a.m. Saturday at Highland Park Hospital, and her husband, Isaac, died at approximately 12:50 a.m. as they wheeled his wife from the room and their hands separated, according…
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Fast Forward Fired Mexican Diplomat Honored For Standing Up For Israel
The Mexican diplomat who was fired from his ambassador position for walking out an anti-Israel vote by a United Nations agency will be honored by the American Sephardic Federation. Andres Roemer, who is Jewish, will be awarded the International Sephardic Leadership Award at a ceremony on May 21 at the Center for Jewish History in…
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