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Fast Forward Printers in Six College Campuses Hacked with Anti-Semitic Messages
BOSTON (JTA) -– Printers at a half dozen college campuses in Massachusetts and Rhode Island were hacked with an anti-Semitic, racist flyer, in a breach of the schools’ computers that also turned up at colleges across the country. The flyer reads: “White man, are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through…
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Fast Forward Canada’s Foreign Minister Calls On UN to Review Appointment of Anti-Israel Professor
TORONTO (JTA) — Canada’s foreign affairs minister has called on the United Nations to review the appointment of a Canadian law professor with a history of anti-Israel bias to a key United Nations job. Government minister Stephane Dion is questioning the appointment of Michael Lynk, a law professor at Western University in London, Ontario, as…
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Fast Forward Sanders Trounces Clinton in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii
Sen. Bernie Sanders handily won Democratic nominating contests in Washington state, Alaska and Hawaii, narrowing the delegate gap with front-runner Hillary Clinton but still facing a daunting challenge to secure the party’s presidential nod. With the Sanders’ victories on Saturday, Clinton now leads the Vermont Independent in the number of pledged delegates, 1,234 to 956….
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Fast Forward Joseph Sher, Holocaust Survivor and Elvis Presley’s Tailor, Dies at 100
A Holocaust survivor who became a New Orleans tailor with such celebrity clients as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley, is dead at 100. Joseph Sher died Thursday at Lambeth House, a New Orleans retirement community and assisted-living facility, The Times-Picayune reported. He was the oldest Holocaust survivor in New Orleans and the leader of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Condemn Hanging of ‘Gruesome’ Black-Faced Purim Doll
NEW YORK — Leaders in the Jewish community of New York’s Rockland County condemned the hanging of a black-faced doll with dreadlocks outside a local home apparently in celebration of Purim. The effigy, which according to a News12 Hudson Valley report Thursday evening was spotted outside a Spring Valley house, angered many African-Americans and others…
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Fast Forward Soldier Who Shot Downed Palestinian in Head Thought He Had Suicide Vest
In a newly public video that documents the scene of Thursday’s controversial shooting of a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, an Israeli can be heard warning that the Palestinian may be wearing an explosive vest. Army Radio published the video on its website and Twitter feed on Friday. In it, paramedics are seen carrying the soldier…
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Fast Forward Bibi Denies French Fraudster Got Him a Fancy Paris Flat
PARIS — A French journalist said he had proof that a defendant in a major fraud trial set to begin in Paris donated funds to Israel’s Likud party and gave personal favors to Benjamin Netanyahu before he became prime minister. Arnaud Mimran, a French Jew whose trial is set to begin in May for allegedly…
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Fast Forward Yemen Jails Jew, Muslim For Helping Smuggle Out 500-year-old Torah
The Yemeni government reportedly has imprisoned a Jewish man for allegedly helping smuggle a historic Torah scroll out of the war-torn country and into Israel. The man and a Muslim airport worker were arrested for their suspected roles in moving the more-than-500-year-old sefer Torah, of which the government claims ownership, the London Jewish Chronicle reported…
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