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Fast Forward Dutch Town That Once Segregated Jewish Pupils Plans Holocaust Memorial
A Dutch municipality where a local school had segregated Jewish pupils from members of the royal family decided to erect a monument commemorating Holocaust victims. The municipality of Baarn near Utrecht, 25 miles from Amsterdam, announced last week it would erect the monument near its central station in January 2016 at a cost of $13,000,…
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Fast Forward 10 Jewish Groups Defend Plan To Admit Refugees
Ten Jewish groups are among 81 joined in a letter to every member of Congress urging them not to roll back plans to accept Syrian refugees into the United States. “To turn our back on refugees would be to betray our nation’s core values,” said the letter sent Tuesday, as Congress began considering measures which…
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Fast Forward Mother of Transgender Activist Who Killed Self Challenges Cremation Plan
The ultra-Orthodox mother of an Israeli transgender woman who killed herself is battling the woman’s lawyer over plans to cremate the body. May Peleg, 31, an activist in Israel’s LGBT community, filed a will with attorney Yossi Wolfson the day before her suicide stating her desire to be cremated, Haaretz reported Tuesday. The Israeli newspaper…
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Fast Forward Red Cross Backs Palestinian Paramedics in Controversy Over West Bank Murders
The Palestine Red Crescent Society acted with impartiality and professionalism in the case of the terror attack on a family driving in the West Bank that left two dead, its parent organization said. The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the Palestine Red Crescent Society, or PRCS,…
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Fast Forward 2 More Sentenced to 4 Years in Orthodox Divorce Shakedown
Two more Brooklyn men were sentenced to prison in a federal case against a group that used violence and threats to pressure husbands into granting Jewish divorces to estranged wives. One day after Moshe Goldstein, 32, was sentenced to four years in prison in a New Jersey federal court, David Hellman, 33, and Simcha Bulmash,…
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Fast Forward Fabled 1,700-Year-Old Lod Mosaic Goes on Display
A 1,700-year-old mosaic unearthed in the summer of 2014 — adjacent to the site where a world-famous mosaic was unearthed in Israel — is going on display for the first time. While excavating during construction of a permanent home and visitors center for the Lod Mosaic, which was found during highway construction in central Israel…
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Fast Forward Chicago Rabbi Convicted in Sukkot Sex Assault on 15-Year-Old Boy
A Chicago rabbi was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. Rabbi Aryeh “Larry” Dudovitz assaulted the boy when he was supposed to be counseling the teenager for questioning his Orthodox Jewish faith, Cook County Judge Evelyn Clay ruled Monday in the bench trial, the Chicago Tribune reported. Dudovitz, 48, the married father of…
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Fast Forward German Art Museum Finds 18 Nazi-Looted Paintings in Collection
A German art museum said it has found 18 works in its collection that may have been stolen from Jews by the Nazis. Some of the sculptures and drawings in the Kunsthalle Mannheim are by artists Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Max Slevogt and Edgar Degas, according to reports. The museum has registered the pieces with the German…
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