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Fast Forward New York Boosts Synagogue Security After Attack
New York City increased its police presence at synagogues and other locations in the wake of an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that left four dead. “The NYPD is following developments in Jerusalem closely and working with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to monitor any further developments,” the city’s police commissioner, Bill Bratton, said…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Beaten at Brooklyn Subway Station
Three assailants beat an identifiably Jewish man while shouting anti-Semitic epithets at a Brooklyn train station. A bystander who intervened in the attack on Monday at the Marcy Avenue stop on the J line in the Williamsburg neighborhood also was attacked, the New York Daily News reported. The Jewish man, who was identified as a…
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Fast Forward Spanish Mayor Sorry for ‘Jewish Dog’ Slur
A spokesperson for the mayor of a suburb of Madrid apologized for the mayor’s use of the term “Jewish dog” during her mayoral campaign as representative of the country’s ruling party. The office of Mariola Vargas, mayor of Collado Villalba, issued on Friday the apology to the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, or FCJE,…
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Fast Forward Arizona Fraternity Punished for Alpha Epsilon Pi Attack
A fraternity at the University of Arizona is on an interim suspension after allegedly attacking members of a Jewish fraternity. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is accused of assault and discrimination for attacking members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, a Jewish fraternity, on Friday night. About 15 members of the SAE fraternity forced they…
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Fast Forward Moshe Twersky, Grandson of Joseph Soloveichik, Among Jerusalem Synagogue Victims
Rabbi Moshe Twersky has been identified as one of the four people killed in a Jerusalem synagogue during morning services. Twersky, 60, was the son of rabbi and author Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky of Boston, grandson of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, a founder of Modern Orthodoxy known as The Rav. He was the dean of the…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Killers’ Relatives Were Freed in Gilad Shalit Swap
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the terror attack by Palestinian assailants on a synagogue in Jerusalem. The condemnation came hours after the Tuesday morning attack with guns, knives and axes on worshippers at the synagogue and rabbinical seminary during morning services. Shortly after the attack, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, called on Abbas…
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Fast Forward Man Charged in Upper East Side Attack on Jewish Couple
A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested for assaulting an Orthodox Jewish couple in Manhattan this summer. A New York Police Department spokesman confirmed to JTA that Mustafa Mashni was charged with assault, as first reported on the Jpupdates website. The victims, in their 20s, were walking on the Upper East Side at approximately 8 p.m….
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Fast Forward Hadassah Hospital Interim Board Chairman Avi Balashnikov Resigns
The interim board chairman of Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem resigned. Avi Balashnikov stepped down over the weekend, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz, because Health Minister Yael German had failed to find a permanent replacement by an agreed-upon deadline. Moti Debi, a member of the board of directors, also resigned. The resignations are the latest…
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