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Fast Forward "Ill’ Man Who Stabbed Jew in Marseille Gets 4 Years
A man who stabbed a Jew and assaulted two other Jews in Marseille was sentenced to four years is prison. The Correctional Tribunal of Marseille sentenced Farid Haddouche, 32, on Wednesday for aggravated assault he committed early in the morning of Oct. 24, the France3 television channel reported. Haddouche’s victims, a rabbi, the rabbi’s son…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Jewish Museum Opens Anti-Semitism Center
Lithuania’s largest Jewish museum opened a center dedicated to combating anti-Semitism and preserving Litvak Jewish identity domestically and abroad. The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum opened its Centre of Litvak Culture and Art last week, the Baltic News Service reported. Funded by the Lithuanian state and set up based on the experience of Polish experts…
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Fast Forward Dutch Rabbi Invites Muslims to Lighting of 36-Foot-High Menorah
The chief rabbi of the Netherlands lit what he said is Europe’s largest kosher menorah, which was built for the Jewish community by Zionist Christians. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs lit the second candle of Hanukkah on menorah opposite town hall in the southern city of Maastricht on Tuesday, he wrote in a blog post for the…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Lawmaker Shuns Meeting at Jewish Agency Over ‘Displacement’ Concerns
Arab-Israeli lawmaker and political leader Ayman Odeh refused to meet with the umbrella foreign policy body for American Jews because it shares office space with the Jewish Agency, an abrupt and dissonant end to a trip that was aimed at promoting greater Arab-Jewish cooperation. “I came here to represent the Arab public in Israel to…
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Fast Forward Miami Beach Rabbi Takes Plea in Fondling of Girl
A Miami Beach rabbi who was arrested on suspicion that he molested an 11-year-old girl at his art gallery is facing a misdemeanor charge after accepting a plea deal. Rabbi Steve Karro now faces a charge of misdemeanor battery and nine months of probation, WSVN-TV in Miami Beach reported Thursday. Karro was accused of placing…
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Fast Forward Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Featured in 2016 Calendar
The portraits of 12 Krakow Holocaust survivors are featured on a calendar put out by the JCC Krakow in cooperation with the Child Survivors of the Holocaust Association. The 2016 calendar contains the survivors’ stories and lists their achievements after the war. Jewish community center representatives said at a news conference Wednesday that it was…
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Fast Forward Hanukkah Candle Lighting Returns to Polish Presidential Palace
Representatives of the Polish Jewish community lit Hanukkah candles at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw following a one-year hiatus. The ceremony, which was launched in 2006, was held Wednesday evening. Until 2014, the candle lighting had been held every year since its inauguration. “It is good that Hanukkah candles were lit again in the Presidential…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Push To Block Statue for Wartime Anti-Semite
Hungary’s Jewish community protested against plans to erect a statue to a politician who played a role in drafting anti-Jewish laws during World War Two, saying on Thursday that it would bring back the “dark and menacing shadow of anti-Semitism.” The row over a statue to Balint Homan, who served as minister of religion and…
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