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Fast Forward Trump To Visit Holocaust Museum
(JTA) — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and then deliver public remarks as part of the museum’s annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony. The ceremony will be held on Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, a day after Holocaust Memorial Day is observed in Israel. The week-long Days of Remembrance was first held in…
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Fast Forward Israeli Families Light Memorial Candles For Holocaust Victims
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Patients and their families at three Israeli hospitals were able to light memorial candles for victims of the Holocaust under a new initiative. The memorial organization Shem V’Ner, or Our Six Million: A Candle for Every Name. distributed the memorial candles to Ichilov, Rambam and Tel Hashomer hospitals. Each candle has a…
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Fast Forward Israel Denies Extradition Request For Teen In JCC Bomb Threats
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Justice Ministry reportedly has denied a U.S. Justice Department request to extradite the Israeli-American teen charged with making threats against Jewish community centers throughout the United States. The State Attorney’s Office in Israel told its American counterpart that though the 18-year-old computer hacker has committed crimes in 10 different countries, he…
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Fast Forward 6 Israelis Arrested For Racist Attacks On Arabs Who Dated Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Six Israelis from the southern city of Beersheba were arrested for violent attacks on Arabs whom they suspected of engaging in romantic relationships with Jews. The agency, known as the Shin Bet, announced the arrests on Sunday. It did not say when the arrests took place. Among those arrested were a minor,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Loses UN Gig Over Ties To Hamas
(JTA) — A Palestinian Gazan is no longer employed by a United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees after it was discovered that he was elected to the leadership of the terrorist group Hamas. Agency leaders did not tell media who inquired over the weekend whether Suhail al-Hindi resigned or was fired from the U.N. Relief…
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Fast Forward Australian Piercing Store Refuses To Serve Israelis
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — A retailer in the Australian North Queensland city of Cairns displayed a sign in its window saying that it does not serve Israelis. Israeli tourist Mohr Wenger posted a photo of the sign in the window reading “No Israelis served here” on Facebook. Wenger wrote in her post that she and a…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Stabs 4 On Tel Aviv Beachfront
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man stabbed four people in Tel Aviv in two separate attacks. The assailant, identified by police as an 18-year-old Palestinian, was captured and arrested. The attacks took place in two hotels along the Tel Aviv beachfront promenade, located near the U.S. embassy on the same street. Three of the injured…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Dip By 12% Worldwide — Rise In U.S.
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide has decreased by 12 percent in 2016 despite a spike in cases in the United Kingdom and the United States, Tel Aviv University’s watchdog on anti-Jewish racism said. The data were published Sunday, Israel’s national day of remembrance of the Holocaust, in the annual “Antisemitism Worldwide” report…
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