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Fire at Historic Polie Zedek Synagogue in New Jersey Appears Accidental

A three-alarm fire that destroyed a historic synagogue in New Jersey appears to be accidental after a preliminary investigation. The fire on Friday at the Polie Zedek synagogue in New Brunswick, New Jersey, left only the shell of the building and destroyed everything inside, according to local reports. One of the Torah scrolls was saved…

By JTA Oct 25, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Rabbi and Two Congregants Stabbed Outside Synagogue in Marseille

A rabbi and two of his congregants were stabbed outside a synagogue on Marseilles, France. The attack occurred on Saturday morning. The assailant, who is known to local police and is considered mentally unstable, shouted anti-Semitic epithets at his Jewish victims at the time of the attack. One of the victims was stabbed several times…

By JTA Oct 25, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Rabbi Injured in Har Nof Synagogue Terror Attack Dies of Wounds

An Israeli man injured nearly a year ago in a terror attack on a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem died of his injures. Thousands of people gathered on Saturday night for the funeral of Rabbi Haim Yechiel (Howie) Rothman. The funeral procession started at the Bnei Torah synagogue where the attack occurred…

By JTA Oct 25, 2015 | < 1 min read
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17 Arrested Over Fraud at Rome Jewish Hospital

Italian police arrested 17 senior officials and medical personnel at Rome’s Israelite Hospital for allegedly defrauding the country’s national health service. The hospital officials were arrested Wednesday morning on charges related to “systematic falsification” of clinical files and other documents to inflate reimbursements from Italy’s national health service, according to reports in the Italian media….

By JTA Oct 24, 2015 | < 1 min read
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RIght-Wing French Jews Attack BuzzFeed Reporter

Members of the French branch of the far-right Jewish Defense League attacked a prominent French journalist outside the Paris offices of the Agence France Presse news agency. Armed with batons, dozens of violent Jewish activists who had gathered to protest the news agency’s Israel coverage, assaulted David Perrotin, a reporter for BuzzFeed, on Thursday evening,…

By JTA Oct 23, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Eichmann Daughter-In-Law Withdraws Argentinian Mayoral Bid After Defending Him

A daughter-in-law of Adolf Eichmann, the late Nazi war criminal who masterminded the near-annihilation of Hungarian Jewry, withdrew her mayoral candidacy in Argentina after defending his actions on television. Carmen Bretin Lindemann announced Thursday that she was bowing out of the mayoral race of the northeastern village of Garupa after receiving intense criticism for what…

By JTA Oct 23, 2015 | 2 min read
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Court Orders Town to Allow Bloomingburg Mikveh

A New York appeals court ordered an upstate New York town near a planned Hasidic development in Bloomingburg, New York, to allow the construction of a mikvah ritual bath at a site that had been rejected. The town, Mamakating, had denied permission to build a mikvah at the site, a former day spa a short…

By JTA Oct 23, 2015 | 2 min read
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Dutch Chief Rabbi Speaks Out on Anti-Gay Violence Among Refugees

Reported abuse of homosexuals at refugee centers shows the need for educating refugees to tolerance as soon as possible, Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said. Jacobs’ statement Friday followed an expose aired the previous day by the Dutch broadcaster NOS. In it, the country’s main advocacy group for homosexuals, COC, revealed that over the past…

By JTA Oct 23, 2015 | 2 min read

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