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Fast Forward Amsterdam Boosts Security Funding for Jewish Groups
The mayor of Amsterdam pledged $1.27 million for the protection of Jewish institutions. Eberhard van der Laan told the City Council he will allocate the funds next year to 15 Jewish organizations that asked for security-related subsidies and were deemed to be at risk, the ANP news agency reported. The subsidy comes on top of…
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Fast Forward French Jews Plan Ceremony at Kosher Market Where 4 Slain
CRIF, the umbrella group of France’s Jewish communities, called on the general public to attend a commemoration on the first anniversary of the slaying of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket. CRIF made the call in a statement published Monday on its website, which said the event planned for Jan. 9 at the Hyper…
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Fast Forward Hungary Cancels Plans for Statue of Nazi Collaborator
Members of the U.S. Congressional bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Anti-Semitism applauded the decision of the Hungarian government to cancel plans to erect a statue that would have honored a Hungarian Nazi collaborator. Hungary had planned to memorialize Balint Homan, a known anti-Semite and Nazi collaborator. After learning of this, members of the task force…
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Fast Forward College Class Wears Holocaust Yellow Stars To Protest Islamophobia
A University of San Diego professor and some of her students wore yellow star badges modeled after the ones Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust to protest Islamophobia. Bahar Davary, an Iranian-American associate professor of theology and religious studies at the college, and her students began wearing the yellow stars with the word…
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Fast Forward New York State Funds $1.5M Triangle Factory Memorial
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York state is allocating $1.5 million in state funds for a memorial commemorating the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The New York Times reported Monday that the memorial will consist of steel panels on the former Triangle building in New York City. The building in the Greenwich…
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Israel News Israeli President Meets Child Terror Victims on Their Bar/Bat Mitzvahs
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted dozens of child victims of terrorist attacks in a celebration for their bar and bat mitzvahs. The 58 children celebrated their Jewish coming of age in an event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. The event was part of a day arranged by the Association of Victims of…
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Fast Forward Jewish Father and Son Freed in Venezuela After $400G Ransom Paid
A Jewish father and son abducted in Venezuela were freed days after the Jewish community paid a $400,000 ransom. Heavily armed men kidnapped the Orthodox Jews as they made their way to synagogue for morning prayers on Saturday. The crime was only reported in the late afternoon, when the two did not return home. At…
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Fast Forward Naftali Bennett Condemns Jewish Extremists, Backs Shin Bet
JERUSALEM — Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing Jewish Home Party, condemned Jewish extremists and affirmed his support for the Shin Bet security service in its investigation of the firebombing of a Palestinian home. The leader of the religious Zionist political party also condemned the Jewish terrorism manifested in the recent attacks on Palestinians, including…
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