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Fast Forward Investigation Launched Into Beating of Palestinian Men in East Jerusalem
Israel Police have opened an investigation into the severe beating of two Palestinian young men in a Jewish neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem. The two Palestinian men, both 20-year-old residents of the Bet Hanina neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, told police they were beaten late Friday night near Neve Yaakov by a group of Jewish youths. The…
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Fast Forward 10,000 Rally at United Nations To Support Israel Battle in Gaza
Members of Congress and thousands of Israel supporters gathered for a solidarity rally near the United Nations. The Monday afternoon rally, organized by the UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, was intended to show support for Israel as it battles Hamas. The rally on 47th Street in Manhattan…
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Fast Forward Miami Beach Shul Hit With ‘Hamas’ Graffiti
A synagogue in North Miami Beach was vandalized with spray painted swastikas and the word “Hamas.” The attack on Congregation Torah V’Emunah reportedly came early Monday morning, according to local reports. The epithets were discovered slightly more than a day after cars owned by a Jewish family in Miami Beach were egged and smeared with…
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Fast Forward Chicago Principal Transferred Over Anti-Semitic Bullying
A Chicago public school principal has asked to be reassigned over anti-Semitic bullying at his school. Principal Joshua VanderJagt of the Ogden International School on Chicago’s North Side will be reassigned, Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said in a statement released Friday. “I agree with Mr. VanderJagt that the students, parents and the school…
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Fast Forward New Zealand Jews Mourn Slain Israel Soldier
A small community in New Zealand is mourning the loss of a Kiwi-born Israeli soldier killed in action in Gaza. Staff Sergeant Guy Boyland, 21, was killed Friday trying to raze tunnels in Gaza. He was laid to rest at his home Sunday on Kibbutz Ginosar in the Galilee. Boyland was born in Taupo, a…
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Fast Forward Tayyip Erdogan Vows To Protect Turkish Jews
Turkey will keep its Jewish citizens safe, but the Jewish community should denounce Israel, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a Turkish newspaper. “Jews in Turkey are our citizens. We are responsible for their security of life and property,” Erdogan told the Daily Sabah. He added: “I talked with our Jewish citizens’ leaders on Thursday…
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Fast Forward Max Steinberg Family Consoled at Western Wall
The family of the late American-Israeli soldier Max Steinberg visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Evie and Stuart Steinberg, and their remaining son and daughter, who came to Israel last week for the funeral of Max Steinberg, 24, a southern California native who was killed in Gaza in an attack on the armored personnel carrier…
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Fast Forward Spanish Writer Says Israel’s War in Gaza Justifies Expulsion of Jews
The Jewish Community of Madrid said it would take legal steps against a celebrated writer who cited Israel’s Gaza operation in justifying past expulsions of Jews. Antonio Gala, an award-winning playwright and author, made the statement in an Op-Ed which was published by the Spanish daily El Mundo. “It’s not strange that they have been…
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