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Fast Forward West Bank Settler Killed in Accident After Car Pelted With Rocks
A Jewish-Israeli man who exited his car near Hebron after Palestinians throwing rocks damaged the vehicle was hit by a truck and killed. The man, who was reported to be in his 50s and a resident of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, was driving past the Palestinian village of Al Fawar, near Hebron,…
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Fast Forward 109 Whooping Cough Cases Strike Brooklyn Ultra-Orthodox Neighborhood
An outbreak of whooping cough has hit New York City’s haredi Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. Some 109 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been reported in the New York neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Borough Park over the past year, with the number of cases increasing in the last four months, the city’s Department…
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Fast Forward Israeli Boy Stabbed While Riding Bike Is Breathing on His Own
The 13-year-old boy who was stabbed by two Palestinian teens is conscious and breathing on his own, a week after the attack in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Zeev neighborhood. He was brought to the hospital following the attack on Oct. 12 in critical condition, where he was put in an induced coma and connected to a respirator….
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Fast Forward UNESCO Will Vote on Plan To Declare Western Wall a Muslim Site
A Palestinian effort to have a United Nations agency declare Judaism’s holiest site a Muslim holy site is “an attempt to distort history,” Israel said. UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural body, is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the proposal concerning the Western Wall in Jerusalem. In a statement Monday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the proposal “an…
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Fast Forward Matisyahu Honored by Anti-Defamation League for BDS Fightback
The Anti-Defamation League honored the American Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu for standing up against an anti-Israel boycott. Matisyahu performed his anthem “Jerusalem” on Thursday at the ADL annual meeting in Denver. In August, he was slotted to play at the Rototom SunSplash reggae music festival before BDS activists pressured the event’s organizers to disinvite him…
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Fast Forward Stanton Street Shul Is Burglarized
A synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the Stanton Street Shul, was found to be broken into and vandalized on October 14, The Jewish Press reported, citing an email from the historic Orthodox congregation’s president. In the email to congregants, Rebecca Honig-Friedman said that “no one was hurt and the damage could have been much…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Man Beaten on Brooklyn Street
New York City police are investigating an attack on a Jewish man in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. On Oct. 16, an Orthodox man was assaulted in front of a Jewish school in an incident being investigated as a possible bias attack. Moshe Yehuda Feldman, 35, was hit in the back of the head in…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Opens in Seattle
The Holocaust Center for Humanity, the first museum dedicated in the Pacific Northwest to the Holocaust, opened in Seattle, Washington. The $3.4 million museum, which includes artifacts from local Holocaust survivors, opened Sunday. It includes classrooms and office space that will be open for students and the public. The center is expecting 16,000 visitors in…
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