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Fast Forward Son of Israeli Evangelist Dies in Malaysia Airlines Shoot-Down Over Ukraine
The 27-year-old Israeli son of a well-known Christian evangelist was among the 298 victims who died when Malaysian airlines flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine. Dov Avnon, Itamar Avnon’s father, announced his son’s death on Facebook, the Ma’ariv daily reported Friday. “They say life is short – yes it is true,” wrote his Israeli-born father, who…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Urges ‘Precise’ Ground War in Gaza
Expressing concern about civilian casualties, U.S. State Secretary John Kerry said Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip should be a “precise” one, targeting Hamas tunnels. Kerry made the appeal during a telephone conversation late Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the U.S. State Department said in a statement issued hours after the Israel Defense…
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Fast Forward Israel City of Ashdod Bomb Shelters Ordered To Allow Women
Several bomb shelters in Ashdod were ordered to remove signs indicating they are for men only. In response to a complaint lodged by Knesset member Stav Shaffir, the Rabbinical Courts Administration ordered the removal of the signs, the Times of Israel reported. “The thought that women who sought a secure refuge from rocket fire and…
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Fast Forward Dueling Memorials Set for 20th Anniversary of AMIA Argentina Terror Bombing
A group of relatives and friends of victims of the Buenos Aires Jewish center bombing will hold separate commemorations of the attack’s 20th anniversary. Events memorializing the 85 people killed in the July 18, 1994 attack on the AMIA center will be held by the organized Jewish community and by a group called Active Memory,…
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Fast Forward Stones Thrown at Dutch Chief Rabbi’s Home
A chief rabbi of the Netherlands said unidentified individuals hurled stones at his home in what he said was the second anti-Semitic attack on him in a week. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said the latest attack took place at 5 a.m. Thursday, when two stones were hurled through a window of his home in Amersfoort. An…
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The Schmooze Szymon Szurmiej, Jewish Actor and Polish Leader, Dies at 91
(JTA) — The Jewish actor and director Szymon Szurmiej, the longtime head of Poland’s State Jewish Theatre, has died. Szurmiej, a leading Jewish figure for years during the post-Holocaust communist era, died Wednesday in Warsaw. He was 91. He survived the widespread anti-Semitic purges of 1968 and, in addition to heading the theater since 1970,…
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Fast Forward Beaten Palestinian-American Teen Returns Home to Hero’s Welcome in Florida
The Palestinian-American teen beaten by Israeli soldiers in an attack caught on video returned home to Florida after being released on bail and held under house arrest. Tariq Abu Khdeir, 15, and his mother arrived in Tampa late on Wednesday night, where they reportedly were greeted by about 50 family members and supporters. “I am…
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Fast Forward Red Klotz, Perennial Loser to Harlem Globetrotters, Dies at 93
Louis “Red” Klotz, the driving force behind the team that served as the foil for the Harlem Globetrotters, has died. Klotz, who with his Globetrotters counterpart, Abe Saperstein, formed a Jewish-run traveling basketball show that has traveled around the world for more than six decades, died Saturday at his home in Margate, N.J. He was…
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