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Fast Forward Excavation of Jewish Mass Grave Halted in Lithuania
The excavation of a mass grave of Holocaust victims in Lithuania was halted following an appeal by the Jewish community and the country’s chief rabbi. On Wednesday, Martynas Siurkus, a municipal official in Siauliai, announced that the work would be halted “until the appropriate respect is guaranteed for the human remains of the people murdered…
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Fast Forward C-SPAN Caller Accuses Ben Cardin of Dual Loyalty to Israel
A talk-show caller accused a Jewish U.S. senator, Ben Cardin, of dual loyalty to Israel. Eric from Georgia said on C-SPAN that the Maryland Democrat, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, should disclose that he is Jewish when discussing U.S.-Iran relations. “Mr. Cardin looks like a regular white guy, nice guy, whatever,…
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Fast Forward Samsung Pulls Cartoons Mocking Jewish Hedge Fund ‘Vulture’
A Samsung subsidiary removed online cartoons that showed the Jewish founder of a hedge fund as a vulture with a large beak. Samsung C&T removed the cartoons on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported, days after the company condemned anti-Semitism in the wake of anti-Semitic expressions in the South Korean media in reporting on the proposed…
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Fast Forward Birthright Dedicates Memorial to Lone Soldier Max Steinberg
Birthright Israel dedicated a memorial site in northern Israel to Max Steinberg, an American who died fighting for the Jewish state. The site was established at the ancient synagogue in the Arbel nature reserve in the lower Galilee, where a ceremony was held Thursday, the organization said. On hand were the late soldier’s family, soldiers…
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Fast Forward 99-Year-Old Survivor Rings Bell at New York Stock Exchange
A Holocaust refugee-turned-Wall Street financial adviser has been invited to mark her 100th birthday next month by ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Irene Bergman, 99, is still working and would be one of the oldest people ever to open or close the trading day in the exchange, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday….
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Fast Forward Unsealed Documents Suggest Ethel Rosenberg Was Innocent
Newly unsealed court records may provide fodder for those who believe Ethel Rosenberg was wrongly convicted and executed. Rosenberg and her husband Julius, who were Jewish, were famously put to death in 1953 in Ossining, New York, for conspiring to share atomic secrets with the Soviet Union. The potentially exculpatory material is in testimony by…
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Fast Forward Israel Knesset Rejects Death Penalty by 94-6 Vote
Israel’s Knesset voted down a bill that would allow judges to more easily sentence a terrorist to death. By a vote of 94-6, the bill was rejected in its first reading on Wednesday. The six votes came from members of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, which proposed the measure, The Jerusalem Post reported. In the March…
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Fast Forward U. of California Regents Delays Anti-Semitism Debate Until September
The University of California Board of Regents will wait until September to address adopting the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. The expectation was that the board was going to discuss the issue during its July 22-23 meeting in San Francisco and take a vote. No reason for the delay was given. The regents do…
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