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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi Dies Of Injuries After Brutal Beating In Ukraine
(JTA) — A Chabad rabbi who was severely beaten six months ago at a train station in the western Ukrainian city of Zhitomir has died. Rabbi Mendel Deitsch was 64. He died in Israel where he was airlifted and treated following the attack days after Rosh Hashanah, which he spent in the Ukrainian town of Haditch, the resting place…
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Fast Forward Orthodox British Mayoral Candidate Sorry For Burning New Testament
(JTA) — A far right-wing Orthodox candidate for mayor of the British city of Manchester apologized after burning what he called a “missionary bible” and posting images of it on social media. Shneur Odze, who is a candidate for the right-wing populist UK Independence Party, or UKIP, on the eve of Passover found the Hebrew-language…
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Fast Forward Trump Calls America ‘A Nation Of Believers’ In Passover And Easter Messages
(JTA) — President Donald Trump offered Passover and Easter greetings. Trump called this a “season of great hope” and the United States “a nation of believers” during his weekly address, released on Friday, in the middle of the Passover holiday. “As families gather in houses of worship across the nation, we are grateful for the…
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Fast Forward Sheryl Sandberg Credits Mark Zuckerberg With Helping Cope With Husband’s Death
(JTA) — Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg said that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, helped her to survive the sudden death of her husband. Sandberg talked with The Guardian daily newspaper about the sudden death of her husband Dave Goldberg, who had been CEO of Survey Monkey, after exercising at a resort in…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Set To Meet Trump Within Next Month
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on May 3 in Washington DC, a Palestinian official confirmed. The visit was confirmed to the Jerusalem Post on Sunday by top Palestinian official Ahmad Majdalani. Other Israeli media outlets cited a report in the Jordanian newspaper Al…
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Fast Forward Jesse Lurie, Longtime Hadassah Magazine Editor, Dies At 103
(JTA) — Jesse Lurie, the longtime executive editor of Hadassah Magazine and a peace activist, has died at 103. Lurie, an Israeli American, was the magazine’s founding executive editor in 1947 and held the post for 33 years. Volunteers had run the magazine since its founding in 1914. In the 1950s, Lurie also served as…
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Fast Forward Moscow Limmud Sees Record Enrollment Of 2,500
(JTA) — A record 2,500 people signed up for this year’s Limmud conference on Jewish learning in Moscow. Attendance this year at the main event organized by Limmud FSU – an international organization putting together Jewish events in the former Soviet Union — exceeded last year’s tally by 25 percent, organizers said in a statement…
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Fast Forward 2 House Reps, Samantha Power Call On Trump To Fill Anti-Semitism Envoy Post
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Democratic congressmen and Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, have called on President Donald Trump to fill a State Department position tasked with fighting anti-Semitism worldwide. On Thursday, JTA reported that the office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism could be left…
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