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Fast Forward Robert Wistrich, Scholar of Anti-Semitism, Dies at 70
Robert Wistrich, a leading scholar of anti-Semitism and its history, has died. Wistrich, the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, died of a heart attack on Tuesday evening in Rome at the age…
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Fast Forward ISIS Silver Rings Seized on Way to West Bank
A package of rings bearing the Islamic State logo and messages in Arabic that was confiscated at Ben Gurion International airport will be destroyed. The interception of the suspicious package from Turkey, containing about 120 silver rings, was announced Tuesday by the Customs Authority, the NRG Hebrew-language news website reported. The package was ordered by…
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Fast Forward Illinois Passes Anti-BDS Measure
Illinois lawmakers unanimously passed a bill that bars state pension funds from including companies that participate in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. The bill passed the state’s House of Representatives on Monday by a vote of 102-0. The state Senate had passed the measure unanimously as well, 49-0. With the expected signature…
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Fast Forward B’nai B’rith Museum Trove Will Go Public in Cincinnati
Two major Jewish institutions have stepped in to provide a home for the art and artifacts of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. B’nai B’rith International and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will display the Klutznick collection at the HUC-JIR’s Skirball Museum, located on the college’s campus in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read: How B’nai…
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Fast Forward Ethiopians Mount New Israel Racism Protest
Approximately 1,000 Ethiopian Israelis protested in Tel Aviv against police brutality. The protest, which began Monday afternoon and grew as it continued into the night, saw protesters march up the city’s central Rothschild Boulevard, stopping at major public squares and blocking intersections. The protest ended at the central Rabin Square. Demonstrators led chants protesting police…
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Fast Forward Police Lock Western Wall Barrier Over Torah Fears
A male supporter of Women of the Wall was arrested after trying to pass a Torah scroll to the women’s section of the Western Wall during prayers for the new Jewish month. The partitions separating the men’s and women’s sections were locked together and metal barriers placed alongside them on Tuesday morning to prevent the…
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Fast Forward Texas Judge Chided for ‘New York Jew’ Quip
A Texas judge was admonished publicly for referring to a district attorney as a “New York Jew” and saying a prosecutor’s beard made him look “like a Muslim.” In a ruling released Monday, the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct admonished Carter Tinsley Schildknecht of the 106th District Court in Lamesa. The commission required Schildknecht to…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman Has First Child at 65
A 65-year-old haredi Orthodox woman became the oldest woman ever to birth a child in Israel and one of the oldest in the world. Chaya Sarah Schachar of Bnei Brak delivered her first child, a healthy boy, on Monday at the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, The Jerusalem Post reported. Schachar, who is Hasidic, had…
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