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Fast Forward Jewish Mother and Baby Attacked by Hate-Spewing Assailant in Paris
A woman assaulted a Jewish mother and her baby in Paris while shouting anti-Semitic slurs. In Tuesday’s incident, the assailant shook the stroller belonging to a 27-year-old mother while her 6-month-old baby was inside, according to the Drancy-based National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. The mother described the attacker as being in her…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Backs Obama Foreign Policy in AJC Speech
Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced the Obama administration’s second-term Middle East policies in an address to the American Jewish Committee. Clinton, in a major foreign policy address Wednesday coming as she nears a decision on whether to seek the presidency in 2016, outlined her role as President Obama’s first-term secretary of state in setting the stage…
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Fast Forward Magic Johnson Insists Donald Sterling Won’t Wreck Ties Between Jews and Blacks
Magic Johnson said Donald Sterling’s diminishment of African American charity work would not harm relations between the Jewish and black communities. “One thing great about the African American and Jewish communities is that they have worked well together over years, and we will continue to work with the Jewish community,” the legendary Los Angeles Lakers…
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Fast Forward Iraq Agrees To Let Jewish Archive Stay Longer in U.S.
The Iraqi government is extending the stay of the Iraqi Jewish Archive in the United States. “In order to continue this important work and to allow the exhibit to be displayed in other cities in the United States, the Government of Iraq has authorized me to extend the period which the exhibit may remain in…
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Fast Forward Turkish Tourists Freed After Making Majdanek Nazi Salute
A court in Lublin, Poland, conditionally dismissed charges against two Turkish tourists accused of making a Nazi salute at Majdanek, the former concentration camp, placing them on two years’ probation. The ruling Wednesday regarded Mesut T., 24, and Mehmet A., 21, former students at the Technical University of Lublin. In October, while on a visit…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Plots Unilateral Changes to Status Quo
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly consult with advisers on alternative options to change the Israeli-Palestinian status quo in the West Bank. Netanyahu’s shift, reported by Haaretz, came as Secretary of State John Kerry met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday in London regarding the possibility of restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which were suspended…
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Fast Forward Aussie Chabad Camp Director Guilty of Child Abuse
A Jewish man living in America pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a child while he was volunteering at a Chabad-run camp in Australia in the 1980s. Daniel “Gug” Hayman, a former director of the Yeshiva Center, the headquarters of Chabad in Sydney, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of indecent assault. It was the…
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Fast Forward Israel Sends Condolences Over Turkey Mine Fire
Israel’s embassy in Turkey canceled a celebration of Israel’s Independence Day following the deadly mine collapse in Turkey. Israeli President Shimon Peres also sent a letter of condolence to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the mine collapse Wednesday in Manisa that trapped more than 700 miners underground. Erdogan said Wednesday that 238 miners had…
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