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Fast Forward Teen Charged in ‘Dirty Jew’ Attack on Rabbi in Brooklyn Subway Station
Police have arrested a 15-year old boy for allegedly participating in an anti-Semitic attack at a Brooklyn subway station. The New York City Police Department suspects that the teenager, who was arrested on Tuesday night, was one of three assailants who beat an Orthodox Jewish man with his own umbrella on Monday afternoon and shouted…
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Fast Forward American Jewish Committee Backs Keystone Pipeline
The American Jewish Committee urged President Obama to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, virtually alone among Jewish groups in endorsing the project. “The Keystone XL pipeline is critically important for U.S. energy security, our economy and relations with Canada, our neighbor and ally,” Richard Foltin, AJC’s director of national and legislative affairs, said Wednesday in…
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Fast Forward Slain Druze Police Officer Mourned by Thousands
Thousands of mourners, including busloads of haredi Orthodox Jews, attended the funeral of the Druze police officer killed in the terror attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem. The funeral Wednesday afternoon for Zidan Saif, 30, came hours after morning prayer services were held in the Har Nof synagogue where Palestinian terrorists killed five worshipers the…
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Fast Forward Fighting Anti-Semitic Graffiti in Argentina’s ‘Jewish Gaucho’ Town
Argentine students from four non-Jewish schools, the local Jewish community, the national political Jewish umbrella and the municipal government joined forces to paint over anti-Semitic graffiti. The students painted tolerance messages and art to cover neo-Nazi inscriptions at the Parque Urquiza public park in the city of Parana, in the Argentine province of Entre Rios….
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Fast Forward UCLA Students Vote 8-2 for Israel Divestment Bill
The UCLA undergraduate student government passed a resolution that calls for the University of California to divest from American companies that are accused of abusing Palestinian human rights. The student government passed the divestment resolution by a vote of 8 to 2, with two abstentions on Tuesday night. The passing vote comes nine months after…
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Fast Forward Ex-Hasidic Man Sues for $1.25M Over Poor Education
A lapsed haredi Orthodox Jew is suing the Quebec government for $1.25 million for not enforcing provincial education guidelines that he says left him virtually illiterate and unemployable. Yonanan Lowen, 36, attended two still-operating illegal haredi Tosh yeshivas north of Montreal and spoke only in Yiddish. He says he never learned to read or write…
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Fast Forward AJC Fires Boston Staffer for Open Hillel Snooping Offer
The American Jewish Committee fired a staffer who offered to share with Open Hillel activists an off-the-record recording of a conference call with the director of Hillel. Danny Blinderman, who works in AJC’s Boston office, said in an email exchange with members of Open Hillel that he would join the call led by Hillel International…
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Fast Forward Police Officer Who Shot Har Nof Attackers Dies of Wounds, Raising Death Toll to 5
The number of victims in the terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue rose to five with the death of a police officer. Zidan Saif, 30, of the Druze village of Kfar Yanouch in the Galilee, died Tuesday evening from a gunshot wound to the head suffered in a shootout with the two Palestinian assailants in…
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