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Fast Forward Orthodox Jews and Kosher Market Hit by Paintballs in Brooklyn
Police are searching for suspects who targeted a kosher market and some Orthodox Jewish individuals in Brooklyn with a paintball gun. On June 29, Bondo’s 24 supermarket in the Williamsburg section and 62-year-old Chaim Klein were hit with paintballs. An unnamed man and his two grandchildren walking home from synagogue were targeted as well on…
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Fast Forward Western Wall Rabbi Apologizes for Turning Away Woman in Kippah
The rabbi of the Western Wall apologized that a woman was turned away from the holy site for wearing a kippah, but said he was not familiar with the incident. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch said in a statement issued Tuesday that if the incident did occur, the response was incorrect. Rabinovitch also said that the Israel…
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Fast Forward Jewish Tombstone Fragments Pulled From Polish River
Fragments of about 100 tombstones from a Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis were removed from a riverbed in Poland. Archaeologists removed the tombstone fragments from the Warta River, located in Mstow, Silesia, on the border with the Czech Republic, Radio Poland reported Tuesday. The discovery of the fragments, identified by Hebrew-language inscriptions and Jewish…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Donates ‘Schindler’s List’ Oscar Statuette to Yad Vashem
A Croatian Holocaust survivor who worked as a producer on “Schindler’s List” will give his Oscar from the movie to Yad Vashem. Branko Lustig, 83, a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, said that the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem “is the place where the award should be kept after my death,” Ynet…
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Fast Forward Israel Minister Says Reform Jews Not ‘Real Jews’
Israel’s Religious Services Minister David Azoulay said in an interview that Reform Jews cannot be considered Jews. “A Reform Jew, from the moment he stops following Jewish law, I cannot allow myself to say that he is a Jew,” Azoulay, of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas Party, said Tuesday morning on Army Radio. “These are Jews…
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Fast Forward 9 Druze Arrested in Ambulance Attack on Syrian
Nine more Druze Israelis were arrested in connection with an attack on an ambulance carrying wounded Syrians to Israeli hospitals, leaving one Syrian dead. The arrests reported on Tuesday by the Hebrew-language news website Walla bring the total number of arrests in two attacks on ambulances last month to 21. A gag order has been…
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Fast Forward Burt Shavitz, Burt’s Bees Founder, Dies at 80
Burt Shavitz, the Jewish beekeeper and co-founder of the Burt’s Bees cosmetics company, has died. Shavitz, born Ingram Shavitz in Manhattan in 1935, died of respiratory problems in Bangor, Maine, on Sunday while surrounded by family and friends. He grew the Burt’s Bees company with business partner, Roxanne Quimby, and his scraggly, bearded image became…
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Fast Forward Did Netanyahu Ask Europe Leaders to Vote Against Israel at U.N.?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked several European leaders to support the United Nations Human Rights Council report that slams Israel’s Gaza war actions, a British newspaper reported. Netanyahu called British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other “key allies” last Friday before the Human Rights Council vote later that day, according…
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