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The Schmooze Elton John to Headline ‘Life Festival’ in Auschwitz Town
Elton John will headline the next Life Festival Oswiecim. He will perform in the city of former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the festival in June, organizers have announced. “Like everyone, I am shocked by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere. In June, in Oswiecim, we’ll be celebrating life, peace and music,” said…
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Fast Forward Obama Taps Tom Bernstein for Second Term Chairing Holocaust Memorial
President Barack Obama named Tom Berstein, a major backer of his presidential campaigns, to a second five-year term chairing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Bernstein is the president of Chelsea Piers, the Manhattan sports and entertainment complex, and the vice chairman of Human Rights First, a watchdog group. Bernstein co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Orthodox Rabbi Yuri Foreman Returns to the Boxing Ring
Former junior middleweight boxing champion and newly ordained Orthodox rabbi Yuri Foreman is ending his two-year hiatus from the ring. Foreman, 35, will fight Lenwood Dozier at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday night, Dec. 5. According to ESPN, to win a world title in over 70 years when he beat Daniel Santos…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Gets 20 Years for Killing Bartender Who Served Clamato Juice
A Jewish Montana man has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison for shooting a bartender and killing his dog in retaliation for being served a non-kosher drink. Monte Hanson, 60, pleaded guilty in September to shooting 29-year-old Joseph Lewis and his dog on May 9. District Judge James Haynes sentenced Hanson on Thursday…
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Fast Forward Slain Jew Argued Radical Islam and Israel with San Bernardino Shooter
Nicholas Thalasinos, the Messianic Jew killed in the shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, reportedly sparred with his alleged killer over Islam and Israel weeks before his death. Thalasinos got into an argument with Syed Rizwan Farook several weeks prior to the shooting on Wednesday, which left 14 people dead and 21 injured, according to…
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Fast Forward Four Israelis Wounded in 3 West Bank Attacks
Four Israelis were wounded in three separate attacks on Friday. Two Israeli soldiers sustained minor injuries when a Palestinian assailant hit them with his car near the West Bank village of Silwad. The driver was shot at the scene, the Times of Israel reported. In a separate incident, a Palestinian attacker was shot dead after…
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Fast Forward Virginia Imam Says ‘Jewish Group’ Made Threats After San Bernardino
A Muslim religious leader in Virginia said his mosque received a threatening phone call from someone claiming to be a member of a Jewish group. Imam Abu Nahidian, the religious leader at Manassas Mosque in northern Virginia, received the call in the wake of the shooting Thursday in San Bernadino, California, the Washington Post reported….
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Fast Forward Israel Reportedly Strikes Military Convoy Near Damascus
Israeli jets reportedly struck a Syrian army convoy north of Damascus. The raid, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 citing Arab media sources, reportedly targeted a convoy loaded with missiles after it had left an army base. Israel has been reported to have struck occasionally in Syria in the course of that country’s years-long civil war….
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