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Death Toll Rises to 4 in Brussels Museum Shooting — Suspect Freed

An employee of the Jewish museum of Brussels died of injuries he sustained in the shooting there, bringing the death toll to four people. The fourth fatality from Saturday afternoon’s shooting passed away later Saturday night, the Benelux broadcaster RTL reported on its website. The other victims were an Israeli couple, the Israeli foreign minister…

By JTA May 25, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Israeli Couple Slain in Brussels Museum Attack

An Israeli couple was killed in the mass shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Israeli sources told Haaretz. The third fatality was a female volunteer at the Jewish Museum of Belgium, according to an unconfirmed report Saturday night on the news site HLN.be, which is the online edition of the Het Laatste Nieuws daily….

By JTA May 25, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Tunisian Jew Stabbed in Djerba

A Jewish Tunisian man was stabbed in the chest after a fight at the Jewish market in Djerba. Tunisia’s chief rabbi, Chaim Bitan, was quoted as telling the news site AfricanManager.com that the unnamed victim sustained wounds that are not life threatening in the stabbing Thursday and is currently in hospital. The report did not…

By JTA May 24, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Gang of 4 Rabbis Indicted in Orthodox Divorce Torture Extortion Scheme

Four Orthodox rabbis and one of their sons were indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap and torture Jewish men to force them to grant religious divorces to their wives. Rabbi Mendel Epstein and his son David Epstein, Rabbi Martin Wolmark, Rabbi Jay Goldstein and Rabbi Binyamin Stiller were charged Thursday in New Jersey federal…

By JTA May 24, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Europe Bans Eggs and Chicken From Settlements

The European Union does not allow the import of poultry produced in West Bank settlements, E.U. officials told Israel’s ministry of agriculture. E.U. officials recently informed the ministry of the ban, E.U. sources confirmed to the news agency AFP Thursday. The reason stated is that the union does not recognize the jurisdiction of Israeli veterinarians…

By JTA May 23, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Amsterdam Will Repay $1M in Fines Unjustly Imposed on Holocaust Victims

The City of Amsterdam earmarked $1.18 million from its budget to pay back fines it unjustly collected from Holocaust survivors. The allocation, which Mayor Eberhard van der Laan announced Thursday, is for fines that the city had imposed on hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors for properties they owned but for which they had failed to…

By JTA May 23, 2014 | 2 min read
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Just 8 of ‘Nazi’ Hoarder’s Artworks Were Stolen From Jews, Spokesman Claims

The former spokesperson of Cornelius Gurlitt said only eight of the late collector’s 1,400 paintings are likely to have been stolen from Jews. The spokesman, Stephan Holzinger, made the claim Thursday when he published a statement to that effect by Gurlitt’s friend, Christoph Edel, from the friend’s Monday eulogy for Gurlitt, the DPA news agency…

By JTA May 23, 2014 | < 1 min read
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UCLA Student Court Says No Conflict in Israel Trips

A student-run judicial body at UCLA found that two former student government representatives did not violate conflict-of-interest rules in accepting sponsored trips to Israel. The Judicial Board for the Undergraduate Students Association ruled Thursday in favor of Sunny Singh and Lauren Rogers, who had taken trips to Israel sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and the…

By JTA May 22, 2014 | < 1 min read

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