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Fast Forward Jewish Student Leader Killed in Sinai Plane Crash
The Jewish student organization Hillel Russia mourned a former program director who died aboard a Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt. Anna Tishinskaya,27, was en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg aboard a charter flight operated by the Russian Kogalymavia airline when it crashed in the Sinai peninsula on Saturday. All 224 passengers, most…
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Fast Forward 38 Love Letters From David Ben-Gurion Hit Block for $20K
Thirty-eight letters and nine telegrams written by David Ben-Gurion to his lover in the 1930s will be auctioned off with a starting bid of $20,000. Israel’s Kedem Auction House will auction the Yiddish and Hebrew notes on Dec. 2, the Times of Israel reported. Ben-Gurion, who declared Israel’s statehood in 1948 and served as its…
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Fast Forward Police Say 1986 Yeshiva Murder Carried Out by Fellow Student or Teacher
New York police now believe a fellow student or faculty member murdered a yeshiva student in his dormitory in 1986. According to the New York Daily News, the killing of 15-year-old Chaim Weiss in the dormitory of Yeshiva of Long Beach, on Long Island, on Halloween night 29 years ago, remains “one of New York’s…
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Fast Forward Trendy London Nightclub Loses License after Anti-Semitic Brawl
(JTA)— A trendy London nightclub had its license suspended after a mass brawl there that involved anti-Semitic remarks. Bouji’s, which has hosted Kate Middleton and other celebrities, lost its license on Thursday, the International Business Times reported. The anti-Semitic brawl on Oct. 25, in which seven people were arrested, was the latest in a string…
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Fast Forward Queens Community Board Rejects Chabad Plan to Build School
(JTA) — A community board in Queens, New York voted 38-0 against a Chabad-Lubavitch plan to build a four-story school and community center in its neighborhood. Community Board 13 in Cambria Heights, a middle-class African-American neighborhood where the Chabad rebbe is buried, rejected the proposal on Monday, the Queens Chronicle reported. An organization affiliated with…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Admits Nazis Didn’t Need Mufti to Perpetrate Holocaust
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he did not mean to suggest the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews depended on the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem. In a post on his official Facebook page, Netanyahu said Friday that he wished to “clarify” the mufti’s relationship with the Nazis. Netanyahu prompted an uproar by saying in a…
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Fast Forward Abbas Denies Intent to Cancel Oslo Accords
(JTA) — Mahmoud Abbas assured Dutch Jews that he neither intends to abandon the Oslo Accords nor insist on the absorption of millions of Palestinians into Israel. “We never said we were going to cancel the Oslo Accords,” Abbas said Friday during a meeting near The Hague with members of the Center for Information and…
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Fast Forward 9 Headstones Toppled at Dutch Jewish Cemetery
Unidentified individuals destroyed nine headstones at a Dutch Jewish cemetery. The graves were knocked down at the Jewish cemetery of Oud-Beijerland near Rotterdam, 45 miles south of Amsterdam, and showed signs of vandalism, police said, according to a report on the incident that appeared on Wednesday in the Algemeen Dagblad daily. Police do not have…
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