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Fast Forward Heartbreaking Letter From Israeli Father Who Died Waiting for Son’s Remains
Herzl Shaul, who died waiting for the remains of his son, Oron, to be returned by Hamas in Gaza, wrote a farewell letter to his son, who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war. The letter released Sunday by the family more than a week after Herzl Shaul’s death shows that he firmly believed his…
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Fast Forward Judges Slam Israeli Government for Refusing To Implement Western Wall Prayer Deal
Israeli Supreme Court justices chastised the government for not implementing the government’s plan to create an ecumenical prayer section at the Western Wall. Monday’s hearing was in response to a 3-year-old petition complaining about the treatment of egalitarian worshippers at the site. At the hearing, the justices called for the plan to be implemented. The…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman in Iconic World War II Kiss Photo Dies at 92
Greta Zimmer Friedman, the Jewish refugee whose Times Square kiss from a sailor on the day World War II ended became an iconic photo, has died. Friedman, who had been living at an assisted living facility in northern Virginia, died Sept. 8, CBS reported, quoting her son, Joseph Friedman. She was 92. She will be…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Endorses Hillary Clinton, Citing Her Cuba Policy
Alan Gross, imprisoned for five years in Cuba for his efforts to assist its Jewish community, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, citing in part her commitment to the Obama administration’s new openness to Cuba. “I support her commitment to continue and improve our new Cuba policy,” Gross, who was arrested in 2009 for distributing internet…
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Fast Forward Letting Student Wear Hitler Costume Was ‘Innocent Mistake,’ School Says
A private school in Australia said allowing a student to dress up as Adolf Hitler while students from a Jewish school visited was “an innocent mistake.” The Jewish students were present at an assembly on Wednesday when the boy was given a “best dressed” award for his Nazi costume, which a teacher at the private…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Says Palestinian State Without Jews Is ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Facebook saying that calls for a Palestinian state without Jews amount to “ethnic cleansing.” “[T]he Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one pre-condition: No Jews,” Netanyahu says in the video, released Friday. “There’s a phrase for that: It’s called ethnic cleansing. And this demand is…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman is Pregnant With Second Child: Report
Natalie Portman is expecting a second child with husband Benjamin Millepied. An unnamed source confirmed the news to Us Weekly on Thursday. Portman, 35, was comfortable showing her new baby bump Thursday during the premiere of her film “Planetarium” at the Venice Film Festival. Us Weekly reported that the Jewish Oscar winner for “Black Swan”…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi Grandma’ Jailed for Denying Holocaust — Again
An 87-year-old German woman dubbed the “Nazi grandma” was sentenced to a second jail term in less than a year for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced Friday by a court in Detmold in northeastern Germany to eight months in jail on charges of sedition, the German Deutsche Welle news service reported. Haverbeck claimed that…
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