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Fast Forward Rockets Fired From Syria, Lebanon Strike Northern Israel
Rockets fired from Syria and Lebanon struck northern Israel. At least five rockets fired from Syria landed in areas across the Golan Heights early Sunday morning, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed. No one was injured in the rocket attack from Syria, which occurred at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday amid a series of Code Red rocket…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups Slam Attack on Philadelphia College Student
Among the 12 organizations that signed on to the statement were StandWithUs, the Zionist Organization of America and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
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Fast Forward Prominent Turkish Jewish Couple Murdered in Home
A prominent Turkish Jewish couple were found murdered in their Istanbul home. Police discovered the bodies of husband and wife, Jak Karako, 77, and Georgia Karako, 69, inside their apartment on Friday. They had been stabbed multiple times. The Karakos were the former owners of Ören Bayan, one of Turkey’s most famous textile companies. According…
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Fast Forward Jewish School in Denmark Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
A Jewish school in Denmark’s capital city was vandalized this week — its windows broken and anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on the building. Scrawled on the walls of the historic Carolineskolen school in Copenhagen were the words “No peace in Gaza” and “No peace to you Zionist pigs,” AFP is reporting. The school’s headmaster, Jan Hansen,…
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Fast Forward Ashdod Synagogue Hit By Rocket From Gaza, 3 Injured
An Ashdod synagogue was hit by a rocket Friday afternoon, injuring three people lightly. Earlier in the day heavy rocket and mortar fire on southern Israel moderately wounded another Israeli in Beersheva, Haaretz reported. Two men in their 20s and a woman in her 40s were injured by shrapnel from the Ashdod rocket. All three…
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Fast Forward 75 Percent of Israeli Jews Oppose Intermarriage, New Poll Says
Three-quarters of Israeli Jews and nearly two-thirds of Israeli Arabs would not marry someone from a different religion, according to a poll. Conducted by Haaretz and the Dialog company on Tuesday and Wednesday, the poll found that opposition to interfaith relationships was highest among haredi Orthodox Jews, at 95 percent. But 88 percent of traditional…
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Fast Forward Helen Bamber, British Jewish Human Rights Activist, Dies at 89
Jewish Human rights activist Helen Bamber, who founded organizations to help victims of torture and violence, has died at 89. Born in 1925, Bamber protested against the British fascist movement of Oswald Mosley as a teenager in London, according to an obituary published Friday in the London Jewish Chronicle. Following World War II, Bamber joined…
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Fast Forward CBS To Adapt ‘Friday Night Dinner,’ British Sitcom About Jewish Family
CBS will adapt a British sitcom about a Jewish family, called “Friday Night Dinner.” The British show, created by Robert Popper, is about the Goodmans, a traditional Jewish family with two sons who come home each week for Friday night dinner. According to entertainment publication Deadline Hollywood, it is unclear whether the family in the…
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