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Fast Forward Gay Pride Parade Stabbing Victim Still Fighting for Her Life
One of the victims of the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade is still fighting for her life. The 16-year-old girl is in very critical condition at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, according to reports. She was stabbed in the chest and stomach. Yishai Schlissel, a haredi Orthodox man from Modiin Ilit…
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Fast Forward Rockets Fired From Gaza at Israel After Hamas Calls for Revenge
Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel. One of the rockets fired late Saturday night landed on the Israeli side of the Gaza border fence and the other landed near the border in northern Gaza. No casualties were reported in the attack, which did not trigger any warning alarms. The attack comes…
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Fast Forward L.A.’s Israeli Crime Leader ‘Moshe the Religious’ Gets 32 Years in Prison
Moshe Matsri, headlined in the local media as an “Israeli crime leader,” was sentenced to 32 years in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion. Nicknamed “Moshe the Religious,” Matsri, 49, was sentenced Friday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, after being convicted by a federal grand jury last October. During the…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Barry Freundel Sentence Upheld by Judge in Mikveh Peeping
A judge upheld the six-and-a-half-year prison sentence of Rabbi Barry Freundel, the Washington rabbi who secretly videotaped dozens of women undressing in the mikvah. The ruling Friday in a Washington D.C. federal court came in response to Freundel’s appeal of the sentence levied in May after he pleaded guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism. His…
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Fast Forward Gay Pride Attack Suspect Deemed Fit for Trial
The haredi Orthodox man charged with stabbing six participants in the Jerusalem Pride Parade has been deemed psychologically fit to stand trial. Yishai Schlissel, who is in police custody, was found fit to stand trial after a psychiatric evaluation Friday, a day after he allegedly stabbed six, seriously injuring two, i24news reported. Schlissel had been…
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Fast Forward 124 Headstones Toppled at Philadelphia Jewish Cemetery
A historic Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia was vandalized, with 124 of its headstones knocked over. The caretaker of Adath Jeshurun Cemetery discovered the toppled tombstones Thursday morning, NBC Philadelphia reported. Johnny Gibson, who has worked at the 12-acre, 160-year-old cemetery for 44 years, said the vandals did not leave any markings or graffiti. There are…
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Fast Forward West Bank Protests Erupt Over Murder of Palestinian Toddler
An Israeli policeman was lightly wounded in one of several riots and attacks by Palestinians following the funeral of a baby who was murdered in an arson attack by suspected Jewish extremists. The officer was wounded in eastern Jerusalem when he was hit by a stone hurled at him by a Palestinian during a riot…
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Fast Forward Police Make Arrest in Attack Outside North London Synagogue
Police in London arrested a man suspected of accosting an Orthodox Jew outside his synagogue in what witnesses said was an anti-Semitic hate crime. According to Shomrim, a Jewish community volunteer security service, the attacker pushed his victim before shouting racial slurs in a seemingly unprovoked incident outside a shul in Stamford Hill, north-east London,…
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