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Fast Forward Abbas Improving After Third Hospitalization In A Week
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly was improving after being hospitalized for the third time in a week. Abbas, 83, was admitted to the Istishari Arab Hospital near Ramallah in the West Bank on Sunday with a high fever and other complications following an ear operation a week ago. He reportedly received…
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Fast Forward Jewish Siblings Assaulted And Stabbed In Melbourne
(JTA) — A brother and sister in their 20s dressed in identifiably Jewish clothing were assaulted and stabbed in Melbourne, Australia. The attack occurred on Saturday night in a residential neighborhood, according to the Australian Jewish News. The brother, 22, was hit on the head and his sister, 25, was stabbed in the shoulder and…
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Fast Forward Brazilian Synagogue Damaged In Arson Attack
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Vandals set fire to a synagogue in southern Brazil after painting threats to the Jewish community on its walls. Flammable fuel was dumped under the main entrance door of the Israelite Society of Pelotas building on Thursday, and set alight causing minor damage. The criminals also wrote pro-Palestinian messages on…
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Fast Forward Poland Asks Germany For ‘Priceless’ Documents That Would Prove Poles Saved Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Poland has asked Germany to return archival documents regarding war crimes and saving Jews. The parliamentary team for estimating the amount of compensation due to Poland from Germany, which is led by Law and Justice Party lawmaker Arkadiusz Mularczyk, wants to recover historical documents from Germany regarding the period of the…
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Fast Forward British Muslims Denounce Anti-Semitism In Ad
(JTA) — Muslim leaders took out a full-page ad in a major British newspaper condemning anti-Semitism. “We understand that many in our country empathize with the Palestinians and their right to a sovereign state,” said the ad Thursday in the Telegraph, a national broadsheet. “However, we must be ever vigilant against those who cynically use…
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Fast Forward Shoshana Cardin, Trailblazing Federation Leader And Philanthropist, Dies At 91
(JTA) — Shoshana Cardin, a Baltimore philanthropist who was the first woman to chair her city’s Jewish federation, the national umbrella body of the Jewish federation movement and the powerful Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has died. Cardin, who was in failing health in recent years, was 91. Known for her intellect…
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Fast Forward Texas School Shooting Suspect Posed With Nazi Cross On Social Media
(JTA) — The suspect in a school shooting at a Texas high school that left at least 10 people dead had posted a photo of a symbol associated with Nazism on social media. On Friday morning, at least 10 people were killed and 10 wounded at a shooting at Santa Fe High School, outside Houston,…
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Fast Forward Teacher Who Praised Hitler Worked As Nazi-Themed Exotic Dancer
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentine Jews said they will take legal action against a history teacher who praised Adolf Hitler to her students at a Catholic school — and was then revealed to be working also as an erotic dancer. Denise Yanet Evequoz was banned from teaching last week at the Jesus Maestro high school near…
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