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Fast Forward Homeless Man Charged in Crown Heights Stabbing of Orthodox Jew
Police arrested a 26-year-old homeless man they said had stabbed three people in New York over the past month, including an Orthodox Jew in Crown Heights. The suspect, identified as Keny Rochelin, was taken into custody late on Thursday after allegedly stabbing two men in two separate incidents in Prospect Park, the New York Police…
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Fast Forward 140,000 Demand Airbnb Scrap Listings in West Bank Settlements
An international coalition of pro-Palestinian groups is demanding that the online vacation rental company Airbnb immediately stop listing properties in West Bank Israeli settlements. The groups, which include Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, made the demands in a petition delivered to Airbnb offices in London, Paris, San…
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Fast Forward Indiana Universities Hit With Swastikas
Two Indiana universities — the University of Indianapolis and Purdue — were vandalized with swastikas this week. According to The Associated Press, University of Indianapolis President Robert Manuel sent an email to students Tuesday saying a swastika was discovered scratched into a bust of a Chinese artist. On Monday, a swastika and anti-Semitic slur were…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cyclists Retrace Path of ‘Righteous’ Italian Champ
Israel’s pro cycling team will cover the route Italian champion road cyclist Gino Bartali took secretly during World War II to save Jews escaping from Nazi persecution. The March 20 ride by the team, Israel’s first, will begin in Florence, his native town, and finish in Assisi. “As representatives of Israel and of its cycling…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Tells Bibi He Knows Harsh Reality From Growing Up Black in America
President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that as “the African-American son of a single mother” he understands Israel’s harsh Middle Eastern reality. The revelation of another wrinkle in the contentious relationship came during an extensive interview Obama gave Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic that was posted online Thursday. Obama describes his frustrations…
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Fast Forward Suburban Boston Principal Sorry for Not Reporting 2 Anti-Semitic Incidents
The principal of a suburban Boston middle school apologized to parents for failing to notify them about two anti-Semitic incidents at the school, days after he notified them about a third incident. The words “Burn the Jews” was written on the wall of a boys’ bathroom at the F.A. Day Middle School in Newton, Massachusetts,…
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Fast Forward Marco Rubio Plans Push on Israel as Florida Primary Looms
Sen. Marco Rubio, in the fight of his political life to win his home state of Florida in the Republican presidential primaries, will take questions on his Israel policy at a Palm Beach synagogue. On Thursday, a statement from the Rubio campaign said the candidate will be joined by Jewish and national security leaders at…
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Fast Forward Poland Ceremony Honors Jews Who Fled Anti-Semitic Push of 1968
A ceremony at a Warsaw train station commemorated the 20,000 Jews who were forced to leave Poland following the anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968. Golda Tencer, director of the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw, who organized Tuesday’s event at the Gdansk Station, said at the ceremony that the crisis in 1968 was her personal tragedy. “A…
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