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Fast Forward 2 Florida Jewish Schools Shut After Ammunition Found
Two Jewish schools in South Florida were placed on lockdown temporarily after ammunition was discovered adjacent to the campus they share with the local Jewish federation. According to Local10.com, the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County released a statement Tuesday saying the Boca Raton schools, which collectively enroll 1,302 students, were locked down “as…
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Fast Forward Dutch Watchdog Issues Call To Shun Holocaust Denier David Irving
A Dutch watchdog group on anti-Semitism called on owners of event halls not to host Holocaust denier David Irving, who reportedly is planning a lecture in The Hague. Irving, who has been barred from several countries and was jailed in 2006 in Austria for denying or minimizing the Jewish genocide, is scheduled to speak somewhere…
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Fast Forward U. of Wisconsin Holds Town Hall on Anti-Semitism After Nazi Dorm ‘Prank’
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is responding to a swastika incident in a student dormitory by hosting a campus-wide forum on anti-Semitism. On Jan. 26, Nazi swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler were posted on a Jewish student’s dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Jewish student, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, described the incident…
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Fast Forward Israel Holds Secret Anti-BDS Strategy Meeting
An Israeli government ministry held a secret conference in Jerusalem with international Jewish leaders on ways to fight Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns against Israel. Some 150 leaders and activists attended the conference Sunday and Monday run by the Strategic Affairs Ministry, the Hebrew-language news website NRG first reported. They were asked to keep the…
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Fast Forward Rutgers Jewish Student Says Administration Coddled Swastika Classmate
A Jewish student is accusing Rutgers University of mishandling a mid-January incident in which one of her roommates taped a swastika to the ceiling of their shared living room. Sara Rosen, a senior at Rutgers, is faulting the New Jersey state university administration for responding to a swastika by moving her to a different dorm…
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Raised Jews’ Rent in Ghetto During Nazi Rule
The Dutch capital profited from the Nazi occupation’s persecution of Jews by raising their rent after they were confined to ghettos, a new study revealed. The discovery was first reported by the Het Parool daily on Feb. 18 based on the findings of Stephan Steinmetz, a political science scholar, in his new book “Asterdorp” –…
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Fast Forward Reform Jews Thank Bibi for Western Wall Prayer Deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with leaders of the American Reform movement, who thanked him for the decision to expand the egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall. The leaders, in Israel for the annual meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Reform movement’s rabbinical organization, met with Netanyahu on…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Collects Mementoes for 2043 Time Capsule
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043. The capsule will be on display in the museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center in Bowie, Maryland, which is scheduled to be opened…
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