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Fast Forward Commemorative Stamp Will Honor ‘British Schindler’ Nicholas Winton
Britain’s Royal Mail announced it will issue a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler,” in March. It will be part of a set of six stamps honoring British humanitarians, the Jewish News website reported. Winton, who helped rescue 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, died July 1 at 106. An online…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Slams Bibi Over Reports of No Change at Western Wall
The Women of the Wall group vowed to continue reading from the Torah in the women’s section of the Kotel in the wake of a report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised haredi Orthodox parties that it still would not be allowed. Army Radio reported Tuesday that Netanyahu met last week with the haredi parties…
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Fast Forward Anti-Defamation League Urges Feds To ‘Deepen’ Probe of Tamir Rice Shooting
The Anti-Defamation League’s Cleveland office called on the U.S. Justice Department to “deepen its investigation” of the Tamir Rice case after a grand jury failed to indict two city police officers involved in the fatal shooting of the 12-year-old African-American boy. “Tamir Rice’s death is a tragedy that, along with too many other cases, have…
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Fast Forward Hungary Thugs Spew Anti-Semitic Abuse in Budapest Jewish Quarter
Several men hurled anti-Semitic insults at a group of people they identified as Jews in the historic Jewish quarter of Budapest, a Hungarian watchdog group reported. The incident occurred early on Tuesday on Dob Street in the center of the Hungarian capital, according to the Forum against anti-Semitism – Hungary. Six individuals who appeared to…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Israel Will Remain “Forever” In Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs
Israel will remain “forever” in Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hours after an Israeli man died of wounds sustained in an attack there. “I say to all those who would uproot us from the Tomb of the Patriarchs – except for a few years in the previous century, we have…
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Fast Forward 2 Brit Teens Charged in Auschwitz Artifacts Theft
WARSAW, Poland — Two 17-year-old British boys face up to 10 years in prison for stealing items from the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland. An indictment was filed Tuesday with the Regional Court in Krakow. Museum guards stopped the teenagers in June while they were on a trip with the independent Perse School…
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Fast Forward 2 Days, 2 Assaults on Jews in Midwood, Brooklyn
An Orthodox Jewish teenager was attacked in Midwood, Brooklyn, less than 24 hours after a 60-year-old Jewish man was beaten and robbed there. The boy, 17, was punched in the face and knocked into the street in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood in New York’s most-populous borough while walking home from his yeshiva at approximately 6:30 p.m….
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Fast Forward B’nai B’rith Offers Help to Victims of Southern Storms
B’nai B’rith International will make disaster relief funds available for victims of storms in the southern United States that have killed 40 people. The tornadoes and torrential rains throughout Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas started early last week. Some 14 tornadoes hit Mississippi on Dec. 23 and continued through Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas. Nine…
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