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Fast Forward Philadelphia to Honor Harvey Pollack, Late Pioneering NBA Statistican, with State Marker
(JTA) – Harvey Pollack, a pioneering NBA statistician, will be honored posthumously this spring with a state historical marker in his native Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission approved the nomination on Wednesday, on what would have been Pollack’s 94th birthday. Pollack, who was Jewish, died last June. Until being hospitalized five months earlier,…
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Fast Forward German Right-Populist Party Elected to 3 State Parliaments
BERLIN (JTA) — Riding a wave of anti-refugee sentiment, Germany’s leading right-populist party was elected to three state parliaments in regional elections throughout Germany. The upstart party, Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is now in a position to put up candidates for the national parliament in 2017. Exit polls on Sunday showed that the AfD…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Gunman Planned to Attack Kindergartens According to Police
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Arab Israeli who killed two Israelis in a shooting attack in a Tel Aviv bar on New Year’s Day planned to attack kindergartens in the city, according to a police investigation. In its report released Sunday, the Israel Police also looked at its failures during the weeklong manhunt for Nashat Milhem,…
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Fast Forward Murder of Uruguay Jewish Man Spurs Warning of Islamic Terrorism’s Arrival to Latin America
(JTA) — The murder of a Jewish businessman in Uruguay marks the arrival of Islamist terrorism from the Middle East to Latin America, a Jewish group said. “The murderer’s cry of ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Great) points to the transplantation of Islamist terrorism from the Middle East to Latin America,” Shimon Samuels, the director of…
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Fast Forward Boston-Area Catholic High School Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Chants at Basketball Game
(JTA) — A Boston-area Catholic boys’ school apologized after some of its students chanted an anti-Semitic taunt at a basketball game with a predominantly Jewish area high school. “You killed Jesus,” students from Catholic Memorial School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, shouted Friday night during a basketball game with Newton North High School. Following the chant,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Says Hamas Must Prevent Firing of Rockets From Gaza To Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas must prevent the firing of rockets from Gaza on Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted. Netanyahu’s remarks on Sunday morning at the weekly Cabinet meeting came after four rockets were fired on southern Israel on Friday night. The rockets landed in open areas, causing no injuries. “Our policy regarding the…
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The Schmooze Adam Sandler Buys $150 ‘Plumbers Menorah’ at Manhattan Judaica Store
Hollywood star Adam Sandler bought a $150 “plumber’s menorah” at a Jewish-owned Manhattan hardware store. The actor spotted the unusual Hanukkah candelabra in the window of Beacon Paint & Hardware while shooting a Noah Baumbach film,”Yen Din Ka Kissa,” on the Upper West Side and sent a staffer to buy it for him, DNAinfo reported…
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Life Half-Japanese ‘Kind of Modern Orthodox’ Mom Joins ‘Real Housewives of New York’
The newest cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York” reality show is a woman who identifies as both Japanese and Jewish and describes her family as “kind of modern Orthodox.” According to the the New York Post, Julianne “Jules” Wainstein, 35, joins the Bravo series about the lives of uber-wealthy women for its…
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