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Fast Forward Irma Schwager, Resistance Fighter, Dies at 95
Irma Schwager, an Austrian-Jewish refugee who lost most of her family in the Holocaust and worked with the French resistance, has died. Her death at 95 was announced on Monday by Austria’s Communist Party, for whom she was honorary chairwoman. During World War II, Schwager, nee Wieselberg, lived in occupied France, where she recruited German…
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Fast Forward 91% of Americans Would Back Jew for President
Ninety-one percent of Americans said they would vote for a presidential candidate who is Jewish, according to a new poll. The Gallup poll of recent voting preferences released Monday showed that 73 percent of Americans would support an evangelical Christian for president, while 60 percent would back a Muslim and 58 percent an atheist. The…
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Fast Forward Controversial Greek Holocaust Memorial Is Vandalized
A disputed Holocaust memorial in Greece was desecrated two weeks after its dedication. The black marble monument, which commemorates the 1,484 Jews from the northern port city of Kavala who were murdered by the Nazis, was discovered Monday to be covered in blue paint, according to The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece. “It…
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Fast Forward British Ultra-Orthodox Hold Women-Only Film Screening
An Israeli movie by a haredi Orthodox filmmaker was screened for a women-only audience in London after two scheduled all-female screenings were canceled. A private, invitation-only screening of “Gift of Fire” by Rechy Elias was held Friday afternoon at the northwest London Jewish community center JW3. Orthodox and non-Orthodox women were in attendance, the London-based…
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Fast Forward J Street Talks With Hillel End Without Deal
Representatives of J Street U and Hillel met and failed to immediately agree on how best to collaborate on the national level. The meeting earlier this month, details of which emerged late last week, was called after Hillel director Eric Fingerhut pulled out of a commitment to speak at J Street’s annual conference in March….
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Fast Forward Pope Laments World Powers’ Failure to Stop Holocaust
Pope Francis criticized the world powers for failing to stop the Nazis from deporting Jews and other minority groups to death camps in Europe during World War II. “The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to the concentration camps, like Auschwitz, to kill the Jews, and also the Christians,…
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Fast Forward Separatist Ukrainian Leader Makes Anti-Semitic Statements
A separatist leader from Ukraine made anti-Semitic statements at a public address, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress said. Igor Plotnitsky, head of the breakaway, Russian-backed region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, during a lecture in Russia last week linked Ukrainian Jews to the revolution that last year swept from power the country’s previous government amid allegations…
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Fast Forward Druze Israelis Attack IDF Ambulance Carrying Wounded Syrians
An Israel Defense Forces ambulance carrying wounded Syrians to local hospitals was attacked by Druze residents of Israel. The Israeli Druze asked to check whether the wounded being carried by the ambulance on Monday were rebel members, who have been locked in a civil war with Syrian government forces for more than 4 years, according…
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