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Fast Forward Jude Law Reads Jewish Letter To Highlight Refugees’ Plight
At an event to promote awareness of the challenges facing refugees in Europe, actor Jude Law read aloud a German-Jewish author’s Holocaust-era letter. The British actor, whose recent films include “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” read Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1935 open letter to the Nazis occupying his Berlin home, The…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Passenger Goes on Rampage Over El Al ‘Immodest’ Movie
A haredi Orthodox man rioted on an El Al flight home from Poland after complaining that the in-flight movie was “immodest.” The passenger, 36, from Beit Shemesh, damaged two viewing screens and attacked the cabin crew during his rampage on Wednesday, the Hebrew-language news website Walla reported. Police, who were waiting for the man when…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Lawmaker Compares Reform Jews to Mentally Ill
A haredi Orthodox lawmaker in Israel reportedly compared the Reform movement to a mentally ill person. Israel Eichler of the United Torah Judaism party made his remarks Tuesday in the lead-up to a Knesset debate the next day on the Supreme Court’s decision that non-Orthodox converts can immerse in a public mikvah, according to the…
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Fast Forward Suicidal Orthodox Man Dies in Wrong-Way Crash on Florida Turnpike
A 26-year-old Orthodox Jewish man killed himself by driving the wrong way on the Florida Turnpike days after saying on Facebook that he had already tried to do so. Tzvi Yeheskel Ference of Miami Beach was killed on Sunday night when his car driving north collided head-on with a tractor trailer in the southbound lanes…
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Fast Forward French Rabbi Accused of Concocting Anti-Semitic Attack
A French-Jewish teacher who in November told police he had been assaulted by Jihadists was arrested on suspicion that he lied about the attack. Rabbi Tsion Saadon was taken into custody Wednesday following the discovery of inconsistencies in his account of the alleged Nov. 18, 2015 attack, which prompted passionate condemnations by police and even…
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Fast Forward Photographer Brian Hendler Dies at 63
Award-winning photographer Brian Hendler, who served for many years as JTA’s staff photographer in Israel, has died. Hendler, a South African immigrant to Jerusalem, died suddenly on Wednesday at 63, according to The Jerusalem Post, one of the many news outlets for which Hendler worked. The report did not offer any information on cause of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Bystander Killed by Soldiers Who Opened Fire on Palestinian Attacker
Israeli soldiers who opened fire at a knife-wielding Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday accidentally shot dead an Israeli whom he was trying to stab, hospital officials said. The Israeli army described the man who was killed as a civilian, and said the Palestinian assailant was wounded in the incident near the Gush…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Protest New Statue for Far-Right Wartime Leader
Hungarian Jews protested a new government plan to honor a Holocaust-era politician who supported anti-Semitic legislation. The controversy that unfolded Tuesday between the Mazsihisz umbrella group of Jewish communities and the government concerns a statue scheduled to be unveiled in Budapest in the presence of government officials on Wednesday of Gyorgy Donath – a lawmaker…
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