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Fast Forward Italian Jews Object to Nazi Concentration Camp Admission Fee
The Jewish community in Trieste is protesting a suggestion by an official in the Italian municipality to charge an entry fee to a former concentration camp there. Mauro Tabor, a representative from Trieste on the national board of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said Tuesday that he would meet with the mayor and the…
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Fast Forward Portugal’s Law of Jewish Return Becoming Effective in March
Portugal’s law on naturalizing descendants of Sephardic Jews could become effective before March 15, a leader of the country’s Jewish community said. The law, passed by parliament in 2013, is expected to be approved by Portugal’s Council of Ministers on Thursday, the president of Lisbon’s Jewish community, Jose Oulman Carp, told JTA. The final wording…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Cop Sues New York Over ‘Dirty Jew’ Ordeal
An Orthodox Jewish man is suing the New York Police Department for anti-Semitic harassment that he says compelled him to quit his job as a cop. David Attali, who has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, claims that fellow police officers vandalized his locker with anti-Semitic messages, called him a “dirty Jew,” and greeted him with Heil Hitler…
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Fast Forward Polish Holocaust Survivors Protest Righteous Gentiles Monument in Warsaw Ghetto
Simcha Rotem, who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, is protesting against the placement of a monument to Righteous Gentiles in the former ghetto. An open letter signed by Rotem and Pnina Grynszpan Frymer, another ghetto fighter, was published on Wednesday. It also was sent to Poland’s president and the mayor of Warsaw. Rotem and…
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Fast Forward French Terrorists Planned To Attack Anti-Semitism Event
Jihadists arrested last year in Lyon were planning to carry out a terrorist attack at a Jewish group’s conference about anti-Semitism, a French newspaper reported. The five suspects who were arrested in a series of sweeps by French police between Sept. 16 and Sept. 18 were planning to strike on Sept. 18 at an event…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Vows To Veto New Iran Sanctions in State of Union
President Obama said in his State of the Union address that he will veto any new Iran sanctions. “There are no guarantees that negotiations will succeed, and I keep all options on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran,” Obama said in prepared remarks the White House posted online just minutes before the speech, a…
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Fast Forward Australia Cartoon on Gaza Went Over the Line
An Australian press organization has judged that a cartoon published in The Sydney Morning Herald violated press Standards of Practice by the way it linked symbols of the Jewish faith to criticism of Israel. The adjudication, issued by the Australian Press Council, concerned a cartoon drawn by Glen Le Lievre and published by the Morning…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Stabs 12 on Tel Aviv Bus
At least 12 people were wounded, some seriously, when a Palestinian terrorist boarded a bus in Tel Aviv, stabbing the driver and passengers. Four victims, including the driver, remained in serious condition following the Wednesday morning attack, which Israeli reports say injured between 12 and 21 people. The assailant, a 23-year-old Palestinian man from the…
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