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Fast Forward Thousands Join March of Living at Auschwitz
Thousands of young people from at least 45 countries participated in the March of the Living in Poland at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex of concentration camps. The 27th International March of the Living took place Thursday on Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Each country’s delegation was accompanied by a survivor to tell his or her…
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Fast Forward Argentina To Give $170K to AMIA Terror Victims
Argentina’s Senate unanimously approved a bill that offers one-time compensation to the families of the 85 people killed in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center. Under the bill approved Wednesday without debate, the compensation will be about $170,000 for each fatality in the Buenos Aires attack. Also, for those whose injuries were “extremely…
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Fast Forward President Obama Condemns Anti-Semitism on Holocaust Remembrance Day
President Barack Obama condemned anti-Semitism in a Holocaust Remembrance Day message. “It is incumbent upon us to make real those timeless words ‘Never forget. Never again,’” Obama said in the statement released Thursday morning. “Yet even as we recognize that mankind is capable of unspeakable acts of evil, we also draw strength from the survivors,…
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Fast Forward Republicans Likely To Back Israel — Even If Interests Clash
Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to support Israel when U.S. and Israeli interests diverge. A Bloomberg News poll published this week found that 67 percent of Republican respondents agreed with the statement, “Israel is an important ally, the only democracy in the region, and we should support it even if our interests diverge,”…
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Fast Forward Did Palestinian Driver Kill Israeli in New ‘Car Intifada’ Attack?
Police are investigating whether an incident in which a Palestinian man from eastern Jerusalem drove his car into two Israelis waiting at a bus stop – killing one – was a terror attack. Shalom Sharki, 25, an Israeli civilian from Jerusalem, died Thursday morning of his injuries in the attack which occurred late Wednesday night…
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Fast Forward Czech Couple Named ‘Righteous’ After Death
A Czech couple has been posthumously awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations for saving a Jewish girl in Ukraine during the Holocaust. Anna Bohatá and her husband, Vincenc, who were ethnic Czechs born in Ukraine, hid a Jewish girl, Mindla Švarc, from Nazi troops and Ukrainian nationalists during World War II. After the war,…
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Fast Forward Samantha Power Won’t Promise To Back Israel at United Nations
The United States would continue to “work closely” with Israel at the United Nations but would not count out advancing resolutions targeting Israel, Samantha Power said. Power, the U.S. envoy to the international body, testified Wednesday before the foreign operations subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.),…
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Fast Forward ‘Free Range’ Parents Sue Maryland Police for Seizing Children
The Maryland parents who are being investigated for allowing their two children to play in a park unsupervised are suing the state’s child protective services and Montgomery County police. An attorney for Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, in a statement released Tuesday on the Facebook page of Danielle Meitiv, said he would file a lawsuit on…
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