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Fast Forward 70-Year-Old Man Stabbed as Terror Strikes Israeli Town of Netanya
A 70-year-old Jewish-Israeli man was stabbed by a Palestinian assailant in Netanya. The victim in Monday evening’s attack was taken to the hospital in serious condition. It was the second Palestinian stabbing attack in a central Israel city in the span of about three hours. Police shot and apprehended the stabber, who was from the…
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Fast Forward Jordan Sheik Says Wrong To Kill Jews Except in War
A sheik in Jordan said it is forbidden to kill Jews except during times of war. Ali Halabi said in a videotaped lecture distributed on social media that it is permitted to kill Jews during a declared war or clashes with Jewish soldiers, but that at other times it is a betrayal. “Someone who protects…
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Fast Forward Treasure Hunters Raid Sobibor Graves
The graves of Holocaust victims at the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland have been dug up by treasure hunters. The mass graves were discovered to have been disturbed during an archeological dig, the Daily Mail online reported on Monday. “There has been a big archaeological project going on, but when we started excavating we…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Blames Murder of Jewish Settlers on Gay Pride
A haredi Orthodox leader said at a memorial event for a young couple killed in a Palestinian attack in front of their children that their murder was a result of the gay pride parade in Jerusalem. Rabbi Meir Mazuz, who is the head of Tunisian Jewry in Israel and heads the Kisse Rahamim yeshiva in…
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Fast Forward Women Rabbis Officially Banned by Rabbinical Council of America
The Rabbinical Council of America formally adopted a policy prohibiting the ordination or hiring of women rabbis. The policy announced on Friday came after a direct vote of the RCA membership, according to the organization. The resolution states that: “RCA members with positions in Orthodox institutions may not ordain women into the Orthodox rabbinate, regardless…
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Fast Forward Greek Ex-Finance Minister Lampooned as Shylock in Cartoon
The Greek Jewish community protested after one of Greece’s main newspapers published a caricature of former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis as a “Jewish moneylender.” The image, which shows Varoufakis wearing a giant black skullcap and hunched over a ledger, counting bags and coins of gold, was published Friday in Ta Nea, one of the country’s…
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Fast Forward Austrian Lawmaker Walks Back Anti-Semitic Facebook Comments
An Austrian lawmaker who agreed with an anti-Semitic post put on her page has walked back her comments. Susanne Winter, a member of the Austrian Parliament from the far-right Freedom Party, on Friday responded to an anti-Semitic post by a citizen named Oehlmann Hans-Jörg in which he said that “Zionist money Jews are the global…
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Fast Forward Israeli Who Stabbed Fellow Jew Charged With Attempted Murder
A man who stabbed a fellow Jewish-Israeli in a suburban Haifa parking lot after mistaking him for an Arab was charged with attempted murder. Shlomo Pinto, of Kiryat Ata, was charged Sunday in Haifa District Court for attempted murder and possession of a knife with racist intent, Haaretz reported. Pinto reportedly confessed to the attack…
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