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Fast Forward Charlie Hebdo Columnist Was Killed For Being Jewish, Cousin Says
A Charlie Hebdo columnist was killed because she was Jewish, the victim’s cousin said. Elsa Cayat was the only woman killed in the targeted attack Jan. 7 on the satirical magazine’s Paris headquarters by two al-Qaida operatives, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi. Cayat received threatening phone calls in the month before the attack on the…
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Fast Forward European Jewish Congress Calls For More Security to Protect Institutions
The European Jewish Congress called on Belgium and other European Union member states to beef up security around Jewish institutions. EJC President Moshe Kantor issued the call Monday as security professionals from Jewish communities across Europe gathered in the Belgian capital to drill for a scenario in which a car bomb explodes outside a synagogue….
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Blames Paris Attacks on Middle East Conflict
The Israel-Palestinian conflict is one of the factors that led to the deaths of 17 victims in three attacks in France, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said. Carter made the assertion Monday night during an appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. “Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem. And this…
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Fast Forward Philly Mayor to Officiate Same-Sex Marriage For Israeli Diplomat
An Israeli diplomat will be married in a same-sex marriage ceremony conducted by the mayor of Philadelphia. Elad Strohmyer, Deputy Consul General of Israel in Philadelphia and his partner Oren Ben-Joseph will be married at the Philadelphia City Hall this week, Ynet reported. Mayor Michael Nutter and conservative Rabbi Michael Bills will officiate. Gay marriage…
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Fast Forward Thousands Mourn 4 Paris Kosher Grocery Victims at Israel Funeral
Thousands attended the funeral in Jerusalem of the four victims of the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris. “We wanted you alive, we wanted for you, life,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said in an address at the funeral Tuesday at the Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem. “At moments such as these, I stand before…
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Fast Forward Man Charged With Murdering Florida Mom in 2012 — Fled to Israel
An arrest warrant was issued for a man who is believed to have murdered his mother three years ago in Florida before moving to Israel. Authorities believe that Thomas Gross, 61, who has dual American-Israeli citizenship, killed his 78-year-old mother, Ina Gross, in her Lakewood Ranch home on Jan. 9, 2012. Gross would need to…
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Fast Forward BBC Reporter Sorry for Saying Palestinians ‘Suffer at Jewish Hands’
BBC reporter Tim Willcox apologized after saying at the Paris unity march on television that Palestinians “suffer hugely at Jewish hands.” Willcox, who works for BBC News and BBC World News, on Twitter Monday morning tweeted, “Really sorry for any offence cause by a poorly phrased question in a live interview in Paris yesterday –…
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Fast Forward Wounded Manager of Kosher Grocery Plans To Move to Israel
The manager of the Paris kosher supermarket that came under attack plans to move to Israel, his brother told a German newspaper. Patrice Oalid, 39, who was shot in the arm and is recovering in the hospital, told his older brother, Joel, that after barely surviving the Jan. 9 attack, and seeing his customers and…
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