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Fast Forward Charles Krauthammer, Conservative Pro-Israel Columnist, Dead At 68
(JTA) — Charles Krauthammer, a fierce defender of Israel and one of the most widely read conservative columnists of his generation, has died. He was 68. The Pulitizer Prize-winner wrote earlier this month that he had an aggressive form of cancer and had weeks to live. The letter appeared on the websites of both of…
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Fast Forward Hamas Paid Family To Say Baby Died During Gaza Border Clashes, Not From Illness
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas paid the family of an 8-month-old baby to say she died during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops, a family member said. Mahmoud Omar, 20, told Israeli investigators that his 8-month-old cousin Layla al-Ghandour died of a blood disease, the same disease the baby’s brother died from a year earlier. He said…
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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg To Spend $80M To Help Democrats In Midterms
NEW YORK (JTA) — Michael Bloomberg will spend $80 million in an effort to help elect Democrats in the midterm elections. The Jewish media mogul and former New York City mayor said his goal is to gain Democratic control of the House of Representatives, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. “I’ve never thought that…
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Fast Forward 45 Rockets And Mortars Fired From Gaza On Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Residents of southern Israel spent the night running to bomb shelters and safe rooms as some 45 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza. The rockets were fired early Wednesday morning beginning about an hour after Israel Air Force jets fired on three military targets in a Hamas compound in the…
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Fast Forward Former Soviet Refugee Sues Manhattan Day Care For Removing Son’s Star Of David
(JTA) — A former Soviet refugee is suing his son’s day care for refusing to allow the four-year-old to wear a Star of David pendant. Isaac Goldin attended the Bright Minds Center in Manhattan, which provides “European Education” and “Russian Traditions” for kids, the New York Post reported. Beginning in November 2016 until Isaac left…
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Fast Forward Syrian Man Apologizes For Attacking Kippah Wearer In Berlin
(JTA) — A Syrian man on trial in Berlin for attacking a man wearing a kippah confessed in court to the assault and apologized to the victim. The alleged assailant, identified as a Syrian Palestinian living in Germany since 2015, turned himself in two days after the April 17 attack. He is being tried as a juvenile….
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Fast Forward Prince William Irks Israel With ‘Occupied’ East Jerusalem Itinerary
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jerusalem Affairs Minister Zeev Elkin has called on the staff of Britain’s Prince William to correct the itinerary for his upcoming official visit to Israel. Elkin is angry because the Prince’s schedule lists Jerusalem as being in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories.” “United Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years…
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Fast Forward Call For Census Of Gypsies In Italy Recalls Pre-Holocaust Anti-Semitic Laws
ROME (JTA)— Italy’s Jewish community condemned a call by the country’s hardline interior minister to take a census of Italy’s Roma, or Gypsy, population. The Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, said in a statement issued Tuesday that the call by Matteo Salvini to create a “registry” of Roma in Italy recalled the anti-Semitic…
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