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Fast Forward Amsterdam to Halt Trams in Memory of 1940 Strike over Nazi Persecution of Jews
Tram traffic in the Dutch capital will grind to a halt in commemoration of a general strike orchestrated 75 years ago in protest of Nazi persecution of Jews. Amsterdam’s tram network — the city’s primary means of public transportation — will observe a moment of inactivity on Feb. 25, 2016, the 75th anniversary of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Airman from Philly Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Bomber Attack
A Jewish airman from Philadelphia who planned on joining his family’s restaurant business was among six troops killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, 30, died Monday of wounds suffered when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a patrol near Bagram Air Base. Taub was assigned to the Air…
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Fast Forward 3 Israelis Injured, 3 Assailants Killed in 3 Separate West Bank Attacks
Three Israelis were injured and three of their assailants killed in three separate terror attacks in the West Bank. The attacks all took place on Thursday morning and early afternoon in different West Bank locations. In the first attack on Thursday morning, two security guards, a man and a woman, were stabbed at the entrance…
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Fast Forward Woman Who Tried to Immerse Alone in Mikveh Removed by Police
A woman who visited two mikvehs in Jerusalem looking to be allowed to immerse without a female attendant present was removed from one of the ritual baths by police. The woman identified by a pseudonym in a report Tuesday in the Jerusalem Post was removed from one of the mikvehs by police on Dec. 17,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Join Letter Condemning GOP Candidates’ Remarks on Muslims
A number of leaders of Jewish groups signed a public letter condemning “highly offensive” remarks targeting Muslims by two Republican presidential candidates. The letter, published Dec. 21 in the Washington Post and posted on social media, cites George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., which said that the U.S. Constitution “gives…
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Fast Forward Jewish Extremists Caught on Video Celebrating Murder of Palestinian Tot
Israeli television aired video showing Jews at a wedding celebrating the murder of a Palestinian family — including an 18-month-old baby — in a West Bank terrorist firebombing. According to , the video, released Wednesday night on Channel 10 and filmed at a Jerusalem wedding last week, features friends of the suspected assailants in the…
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Fast Forward Ground Zero Rabbi’s Toxic Shirt Swiped by ‘World’s Stupidest Criminal’
The toxin-laden shirt worn by a rabbi who was volunteering at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center was stolen in Miami. The shirt, which Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun had saved and stored in a metal box, was stolen from the rabbi’s car last week, the New York Daily News reported. Packed…
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Fast Forward 16th-Century Talmud Fetches Record $9.3M at Valmadonna Auction
A 16th-century Talmud garnered a record auction price for Judaica, selling for $9.3 million. The copy of Daniel Bomberg’s Babylonian Talmud was sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday to Stephan Loewentheil of the 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, the auction house announced in a news release. READ: World’s Largest Judaica Trove…
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