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Fast Forward Israel Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day With Sirens and Tears
Survivors of the Holocaust “have guided the entire nation,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said during Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. “Today, 70 years after the liberation of the death camps, we stand before you, and we swear an oath and promise, ‘All of us, each and every one of us, have a number tattooed…
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News Northwestern Probes Swastika Scrawled in Library
Northwestern University police are investigating a swastika that was drawn on a wall of a bathroom in the school library. “It is deeply saddening to know that hatred still exists, and even on our own campus,” said Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House in Evanston, the Illinois city where the university…
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Fast Forward Suburban Washington D.C. Teen Admits Synagogue Vandalism
A suburban Washington teenager reportedly has confessed to police that he vandalized a local synagogue. Sebastian Espinoza-Carranza, 18, told detectives this week in Gaithersburg, Maryland, that he carried out the April 7 attack on the Shaare Torah Synagogue because he disliked the Jewish people who worshipped there, the WTOP radio station reported. Espinoza-Carranza painted swastikas…
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Fast Forward British College That Scrapped Anti-Israel Conference Backed by Judge
, via Wikimedia Commons” src=”https://images.forwardcdn.com/image/675x/center/images/cropped/southamptonuni-1429184713.jpg”]A London judge has accepted the University of Southampton’s decision to cancel a conference on Israel’s right to exist over security concerns due to protests. The university cancelled the conference on International Law and the State of Israel late last month. It was scheduled to be held April 17-19. Organizers of…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Security Chief Blasted for Targeting Jews
A leader of Ukrainian Jews accused the head of the country’s security service of targeting Jews and legitimizing a militia that killed Jews in the 1940s. Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, made the accusation on Facebook against Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, head of the Security Service of Ukraine, the news website evreiskiy.kiev.ua reported,…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Violence Rises 40% in 2014
The number of violent anti-Semitic incidents worldwide increased by nearly 40 percent, according to a new report. Some 766 violent anti-Semitic acts were registered around the world in 2014, up sharply from the 554 violent anti-Semitic incidents logged in 2013. The highest number of violent incidents was as for the last several years registered in…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Scrawled on Dorm at U. of Missouri
Swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets were written in a stairwell of a dormitory at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The two incidents occurred on the morning of April 9 and the evening of April 10. No suspects have been identified. The writing was done in ash, such as from the end of a cigarette or…
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Fast Forward Wendy Sherman Tells Israel To Expect Iran Deal
Iran and the world powers will reach a comprehensive final agreement on curbing Iran’s nuclear program by the June 30 deadline, the top U.S. negotiator in the talks told Israeli journalists. A diplomatic negotiated solution is the best option to slow Iran’s nuclear program, Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman said during a briefing Monday with…
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