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Fast Forward Kippah-Clad New Zealand Boy, 4, Smacked On Head
A 4-year-old boy wearing a kipah was slapped on his head as he walked home from a Chabad house in Auckland, New Zealand. The boy was said to be traumatized last week by the apparent anti-Semitic attack, which was witnessed by his mother, according to a report Sunday in the New Zealand Herald. The alleged…
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Fast Forward Italian Aliyah Expected To Double in 2014
Italy is experiencing a sharp upsurge in Jews making aliyah. An estimated 300 Italian Jews are expected to move to Israel in 2014, the Italo-Israeli demographer Sergio Della Pergola told the Italian news agency ANSA on Friday. The Jewish Agency affirmed to JTA that the figure — more than double from a year ago —…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Approves Controversial Jewish Nation-State Bill
Israel’s Cabinet passed a controversial bill that would identify Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The bill passed the Cabinet Sunday by a vote of 14 to 6. It will move on to the Knesset on Wednesday, where it must pass a preliminary reading and then two other readings. The opposition includes five…
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Fast Forward Pollard’s First Parole Application Rejected
Jonathan Pollard was turned down for his first application for parole. “The breadth and scope of the classified information that you sold to the Israelis was the greatest compromise of U.S. security to that date,” the parole commission said in an August letter to the Israeli spy, according to the Jerusalem Post, which obtained the…
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Fast Forward 14 Honored for Saving Jews in the Netherlands
Israeli diplomats serving in the Netherlands honored 14 non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The title of Righteous Among the Nations — a distinction awarded by the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem which is often conferred to recipients by Israel’s foreign ministry — on Friday was given posthumously to…
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Fast Forward National Archives Makes Postwar Shanghai Visa Records Available
The U.S. National Archives is opening to researchers postwar visa application records from the U.S. consulate in Shanghai, a potential trove for information about Holocaust refugees in that city. “This collection adds to the extensive Holocaust-related records holdings at the National Archives,” according to a Nov. 20 statement from the archives. “From 1938 on, an…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Approaching Gaza Fence Shot by IDF Troops
Israeli troops shot a Palestinian man in northern Gaza, killing him, Palestinian officials said. It is the first Gazan Palestinian to be killed by Israeli bullets since the Israel’s 50-day operation in Gaza last summer. Fadil Muhammad Halawah, 32, was hunting birds Sunday in the northern Gaza Strip when he was shot, the Palestinian Maan…
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Fast Forward Yemen Minister Donates Prize to Tiny Jewish Community
Yemen’s minister of culture is donating an international human rights prize to the country’s tiny and persecuted Jewish minority. Arwa Othman, awarded the Alison Des Forges Award by Human Rights Watch in September, called for “tolerance” in her speech and announced she was giving her award to “brothers and friends from the Jewish community,” according…
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