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Fast Forward Menorah Honoring Terror Victims Erected in Sydney
Chabad set up a menorah in downtown Sydney as a tribute to the victims of a terrorist attack. The 32-foot menorah was erected late Thursday night in downtown Sydney, just hours after Chabad cancelled its annual candle-lighting ceremony in the wake of the terror attack that killed ended with three people, including the assailant, killed….
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Mayor Lights Hanukkah Candles Against Intolerance
At a public lighting of Hanukkah candles, Amsterdam’s acting mayor urged Jews to celebrate their faith openly to counter rising levels of anti-Semitism. “The answer to intolerance lies precisely in demonstrating freedom of worship and of expression,” Eric van der Burg said Tuesday, lighting the first candle of the holiday. Gesturing toward the three-foot menorah…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocket Hits Israeli Kibuutz
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in a kibbutz near Gaza without causing casualties or damage. The rocket that exploded Friday morning was the third Palestinian terrorists fired at Israel since the end of Israel’s 50-day assault on Hamas in Gaza, Army Radio reported. The operation, launched by Israel after rocket launches from…
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Fast Forward Theater J Fires Outspoken Director Ari Roth
Ari Roth, the longtime director at Theater J, is leaving the theater after a period of tension over plays dealing with Israel’s history. The Washington Post and the Washington Jewish Week each reported late Thursday that Roth is saying the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, which oversees the theater, fired him after he refused to…
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Fast Forward Sarah Silverman Joins Women of the Wall Hanukkah Candle-Lighting at Kotel
Security guards at the Western Wall entrance confiscated menorahs from several women, but dozens held a candle-lighting ceremony in the women’s section. The guards said they were acting on orders from Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbinic authority of the Western Wall and holy places, the Women of the Wall organization said Thursday night in a…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbinic Group Sued in Barry Freundel Mikveh Peeping Case
A lawsuit arising out of allegations of voyeurism at a Washington D.C. ritual bath added the Rabbinical Council of America as a defendant. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month by a third-year student at Georgetown University’s law school, initially named as defendants Rabbi Barry Freundel’s Washington synagogue, Kesher Israel, the adjacent mikvah and her own…
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Fast Forward North American Immigration to Israel Rises by 7%
Immigration to Israel from North America rose 7 percent in 2014 over the previous year to 3,762 olim from the United States and Canada, according to Nefesh B’Nefesh. The immigrants came on 17 special aliyah flights from North America, sponsored by facilitated by Nefesh B’Nefesh in partnership with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption,…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Researchers Use Imaging to Find Mass Graves
An international team of researchers launched a study of Holocaust-era killing sites in the Kremenets region in western Ukraine. The project was initiated this year by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, whose April report on killing sites ruled out conducting archeological digs in such locales as this violates Jewish religious laws. The study…
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