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Fast Forward Is Branding Migrants a Shameful Throwback to Holocaust?
Jewish leaders criticized Czech police for marking numbers on the arms of more than 200 refugees, saying that it recalled the Holocaust. News reports that “dozens of refugees were literally branded as if they were cattle at the slaughterhouse, inevitably recalling the darkest period of contemporary history, are just the latest in a series of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Won’t Quit Doomed Fight Against Iran Deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to continue his campaign against the Iran nuclear deal, even as President Barack Obama has secured enough congressional support to sustain a veto of any effort to block it. Hours after Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., announced that she was supporting the agreement, effectively ensuring that the deal will…
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Fast Forward Yasser Arafat ‘Poisoning’ Case Closed by France
A panel of French judges has closed a case accusing Israel of poisoning former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat without bringing any charges. The judges said there was “a lack of sufficient evidence” to continue the investigation, a prosecutor from the court in Nanterre, near Paris, told the French news agency AFP, which also cited the…
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Fast Forward Did London Hasidic School Teach Pre-Schoolers About Evil ‘Goyim’
A Satmar Hasidic school in a London borough apologized for using the term “goyim” on worksheets following a newspaper report that its preschoolers were being taught that non-Jews are evil. An article published Tuesday in the Independent newspaper, a major British daily, focused on a worksheet on the Holocaust used by the young students at…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Removes Controversial Showers as Temperature Dips
Mist sprinklers installed at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp complex Auschwitz-Birkenau that sparked controversy were removed. Administrators of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum told the Hebrew-language Nana10 website on Wednesday that they were removing the sprinklers, which resemble shower heads, because they were no longer needed following a drop in temperature. Many visitors…
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Fast Forward Argentina Jews Push for Answers on Alberto Nisman Death
After eight months, the people of Argentina should know what happened to prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the president of the country’s Jewish umbrella organization said. “We respect the Justice Department’s decisions. But, after eight months at least we should know what happened to the prosecutor,” DAIA President Julio Schlosser said Tuesday night at an event in…
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Fast Forward Jewish Gravestones Smashed at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives
Gravestones were smashed, and trees and bushes set on fire in the Mount of Olives cemetery in eastern Jerusalem. The vandalism was discovered after midnight on Wednesday morning, when reports of flames and smoke led firefighters to the scene, according to reports. At least ten gravestones were smashed and also burnt, including that of Nathan…
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Fast Forward Norway Credit Card Uses Anti-Semitic Image
Norway’s largest financial institution issued a credit card featuring an anti-Semitic image. DNB Bank said it will apologize to the customer who received the card and remove the design from its database, according to reports on Wednesday. The image shows a hook-nosed bearded Jew wearing a kippah and a tallit laughing against a background of…
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