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News British Soccer Owner Fined $78K for ‘Jews Chase Money’ Jibe
The English Football Association banned the owner of a British soccer club from all soccer-related activities for six weeks over anti-Semitic and racist slurs. Dave Whelan, who owns the Wigan Athletic Football Club near Manchester, was also fined $78,000 and ordered to participate in an educational program run by the Football Association in the decision…
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Fast Forward Israel Immigration Hits 10-Year High Mark
Aliyah reached a ten-year high in Israel in 2014 with about 26,500 new immigrants. The figures released Wednesday, on the last day of 2014, by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, marked a 32 percent increase in worldwide aliyah over the previous year, which saw about 20,000 new…
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Fast Forward Court Halts Demolition of Yehuda Glick Attacker’s Home
Israel’s Supreme Court suspended a demolition order for the home of the Palestinian terrorist who severely injured Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in an assassination attempt. The panel of three Supreme Court judges on Wednesday asked the state to explain why the home of the terrorist Mutaz Hijazi, located in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of…
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Fast Forward Florida Synagogue Windows Shot Out
Vandals shot out the windows of a Florida synagogue. The attack on Dec. 25 damaged several windows of Temple B’nai Darom in Ocala, Fla. A police investigation is underway. The windows were shot out with a BB gun, according to reports. The building’s security alarm sounded, calling police to the site. “I think it’s a…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Convicted in Kidnap Murders of 3 Teens
An Israeli military court has convicted the alleged leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in June. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron on Wednesday was convicted of planning and financing the kidnapping and murder of Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel, a dual Israeli-American citizen. Kawasme, who was arrested in…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Home Firebombed in ‘Revenge’ Attack
A Palestinian home near Hebron was set alight by a firebomb in what is believed to be a price tag attack. The Molotov cocktail was thrown through the living room window of the house at about 4 a.m. on Wednesday, while the home’s 10 residents were sleeping. Most of the living room was destroyed by…
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Fast Forward Jewish North London Hit by Swastikas — Again
More than 20 cars and buildings in a Jewish community in north London were vandalized with swastikas. The Nazi symbol was drawn on approximately 27 cars in the Osbaldeston Road area of Stoke Newington on Sunday night, The Daily Mail reported. An unnamed 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with the vandalism Tuesday. The neighborhood…
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Fast Forward HarperCollins Scrubs Israel From Middle East Map
The HarperCollins publishing house has omitted Israel from maps in atlases that it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East. Collins Bartholomew, a map-publishing company that is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, told The Tablet, an international Catholic news weekly based in London, that including Israel in its the “Collins Primary Geography Atlas For The…
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