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Fast Forward Jews in Belgium and France Receive Anti-Semitic Threats
(JTA) — A Jewish family from Belgium and a French university director received anti-Semitic threats, according to reports in French-language media. The family from Rhode-Saint-Genese near Brussels received on Tuesday a letter with a swastika and the words “dirty Jews.” The mother, identified only as Anne in an article published by La Capitale, said she…
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Fast Forward 93 Year Old Alleged Nazi War Criminal Dies in Canada
MONTREAL (JTA) — Vladimir Katriuk, a native Ukrainian who avoided deportation from Canada for 64 years after hiding his Nazi past to move there, died peacefully in Quebec. Katriuk, who was 93, died on May 22, according to his lawyer. For years Katriuk was second on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of “most wanted” Nazi…
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Fast Forward U.K. Launches Inquiry Into Belz Hasidic Female Driving Ban
(JTA) — The United Kingdom’s education secretary launched an inquiry and condemned a London-based Hasidic sect for its decision to bar women from driving. Nicky Morgan on Friday called the Belz rabbis’ driving ban, which included a stipulation that Belz schools expel students whose mothers drive them to school, “completely unacceptable in modern Britain,” according…
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Fast Forward Prince William To Attend London Jewish Fundraiser
Britain’s Prince William is set to attend a fundraising dinner organized by a Jewish health and social care organization to celebrate the charity’s 25th anniversary. Jewish Care, which serves the United Kingdom’s Jewish community in London and the South East of England, is scheduled to host the prince on June 11, according to an article…
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Fast Forward Supreme Court Ruling On Food Co-op Opens Door to Lawsuit Over BDS
The Washington Supreme Court reversed a ruling that protected the Olympia Food Co-op from lawsuits over its boycott of Israeli products. The ruling Thursday, reached through a vote of 9-0 justices, voids a 2012 ruling by the Thurston County Superior Court against five people who in 2011 sued the co-op over its policy on Israel….
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Fast Forward Miami Beach Rabbi Suspected of Molesting 11-Year-Old Girl
Editor’s note: In December 2017, a Miami-Dade County judge expunged the record of Rabbi Steve Karro’s arrest, noting that he had not been found guilty of any charges stemming from the 2015 arrest or of any previous criminal offense or comparable ordinance violation. A rabbi from Miami Beach, Florida, was arrested on suspicion that he…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Drop Motion To Suspend Israel from FIFA
The Palestinian soccer association withdrew its bid to have members of the FIFA world soccer body vote on whether to suspend Israel. The head of the Palestine Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, on Friday said in announcing the move: “I thank those who convinced me to drop the suspension [of Israel]. The German president [Angela Merkel]…
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Fast Forward African-American Family Granted Israeli Citizenship After Legal Battle
Israel’s Interior Ministry agreed to allow an African-American family of 13 that converted to Judaism to become Israeli citizens. A drawn-out legal battle over the family’s right to immigrate was the first case in which Israel’s Interior Ministry challenged the validity of a conversion performed abroad by a rabbi from a recognized Jewish community. The…
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