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Fast Forward Jewish Teen Attacked In Berlin For Listening To Israeli Music
(JTA) – Two Germans teenagers, including a Jewish boy, were attacked by three young Arab men in Berlin for listening to Israeli pop music. State police are investigating the violent anti-Semitic attack at the Zoological Garden train station early Sunday morning, according to newspaper reports. A third friend, also not Jewish, was verbally attacked. The assailants fled…
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Fast Forward Man Charged With Vandalizing Eruv Near Boston
(JTA) — A local man was arrested a day after the Sharon Massachusetts Police Department posted on Facebook that the community’s eruv had been repeatedly vandalized. Sharon Police on Friday in a Facebook post reported that the eruv “has been the subject of extensive vandalism over the last few weeks.” The post included photos of downed…
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Fast Forward Conversion Plan Would Strip Control From Israel Rabbinate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A proposal to overhaul the conversion system in Israel would remove it from under the control of the haredi-Orthodox dominated rabbinate, sparking opposition from the chief rabbis of Israel and dozens of haredi and religious Zionist rabbis. The final report and recommendations on conversion in Israel written former government minister Moshe Nissim…
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Fast Forward High School Uses Stickers To Hide ‘Final Solution’ Quote In Yearbook
(JTA) — A high school in Wisconsin stopped distributing yearbooks after it was discovered that it contained a published anti-Semitic quote by one of the seniors. “There will always be one true Final Solution,” read the quote in the year book of the New Berlin West High School, WTMJ Milwaukee reported. An email was sent…
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Fast Forward Aberto Nisman Was Murdered Over Probe Of Cover Up In 1994 Bombing
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered as a direct consequence of his accusation against former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of a cover-up of Iran’s role in the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing, a federal court ruled. The Argentinean Federal Chamber of Appeals on Friday backed the federal judge who is…
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Fast Forward Tight Security For Israel Day Parade In New York
(JTA) — More than 1,000 police officers will secure the Israel Day Parade in New York City. The annual event will make its way down Fifth Avenue on Sunday. No specific threats have been made against the parade, which celebrates Israel’s statehood. The police officers stationed along the route will include counterterror teams armed with…
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Fast Forward Grandson Of Former Israeli Chief Rabbi To Tie Knot With A Man
(JTA) — A grandson of a former chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel reportedly will exchange wedding vows with a man at a ceremony led by a religious gay woman. Ovadia Cohen, whose late grandfather Ovadia Yosef was the Shas party spiritual leader and Israel’s foremost Sephardic halachic authority, will tie the knot next week with…
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Fast Forward U.S. Will ‘Unquestionably Veto’ Draft Resolution Protecting Palestinians
(JTA) — The United States said it would veto a U.N. draft resolution calling for the protection of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United States will “unquestionably veto” the draft resolution, which Kuwait has put forward on behalf of other Arab countries, in the Security Council vote scheduled…
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