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Fast Forward Rebels Say Ukraine Leaders Controlled by Jews
The leader of Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels used an anti-Semitic insult to describe the country’s political leaders. Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, during a news conference on Monday called the country’s leaders “miserable representatives of the great Jewish people.” “I can’t remember a time when Cossacks were led by people who have…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Pig’ Pepper Spray Attack Rocks Austrian Far Right Rally
Two Jews in Vienna said a man attacked them with pepper spray after the assailant and four others hurled anti-Semitic insults at them near a far-right rally. The attack occurred on the night of Jan. 30 on Karntner Street, which is located about 500 yards from where far-right supporters and politicians that night were having…
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News Australian Probe Takes Aim at Chabad School Abuse
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Melbourne and Sydney is under the spotlight as an Australian Royal Commission into the child sexual abuse scandal began hearings. The government-sponsored inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, which began in 2013, has allocated two weeks to interrogate victims and officials of the Yeshivah Center in Melbourne and its…
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Fast Forward Babi Yar Monument Defaced With Swaskitas — Again
For the third time in recent months, Nazi swastikas were discovered on the Babi Yar memorial monument for Holocaust victims in Kiev. The latest incident was discovered Jan. 30 by employees of the National Historical Memorial Site in Babi Yar, where Nazi troops killed more than 33,000 Jews in 1941. The swastikas were daubed on…
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Jews Hold Holocaust Commemoration Events With ‘Anti-Semitic’ Group
The Jewish Community of Lithuania defended its decision to cooperate during Holocaust commemorations with a state-funded institution which is accused of hosting anti-Semitic exhibitions. The defense came in a statement posted Monday on the community’s website. It is a response to a letter that Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Israel office of the Simon…
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Fast Forward New York Jewish Day School Teacher Charged With Kiddie Porn
A rabbi and a former Judaic studies teacher in Westchester County, N.Y., has been arrested and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. Lyle Kamlet, 62, is alleged to have purchased illegal DVDs over the Internet and to have had them mailed to Westchester Day School, a co-ed Modern Orthodox school in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Posters Referencing Alberto Nisman Appear in Buenos Aires
Posters appeared in a Jewish neighborhood of Buenos Aires reading “A good Jew is a dead Jew. The good Jew is Nisman.” The posters in Villa Crespo refer to Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor heading the probe into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center who was found shot dead in his Buenos Aires…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Has Right to Speak to Congress, Rudy Giuliani Says
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a right to speak out about the Iranian nuclear threat in front of the U.S. Congress. “I deeply admire Prime Minister Netanyahu for speaking out on this issue, but he honestly has no choice,” Giuliani said Monday in Jerusalem. “If someone threatens…
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