Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward King of Bahrain Hosts Hanukkah Candlelighting
(JTA) — The kingdom of Bahrain hosted a candlelighting ceremony for Hanukkah, which led to a video of local men wearing kaffiyehs and Orthodox Jews dancing together. The Muslim monarchy of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa held a candle lighting ceremony on Saturday night attended by the local Jewish community, area businessmen and other…
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Fast Forward Beleaguered Montana Jews Get Support From Religious Leaders
(JTA) — Leaders of various faiths in Montana wrote statements in support of the Jewish community in local publications. “As leaders of Montana communities of faith and practice, we are called to respond to the recent surge of white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in our state. Distribution of pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic flyers in Missoula and intimidation…
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Fast Forward TV Station Ordered To Apologize for Calling Nazi Camps ‘Polish’
(JTA) — A German public broadcasting station must apologize to a survivor of Auschwitz for calling the Nazi death camps “Polish death camps.” An appeals court in Krakow, Poland, announced the ruling on Thursday. Ninety-five year old Polish Holocaust survivor Karol Tendera filed the lawsuit against the ZDF broadcaster over a 2013 promotional trailer for a…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Jewish Pilgrims Visit Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus
JERUSALEM (JTA) — About 1,000 Jewish pilgrims visited Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in an area of the West Bank that is under the exclusive military and civilian control of the Palestinian Authority. The visit on Sunday night, the second Hanukkah light, lasted until just before dawn on Monday morning, under Israeli military escort. Residents of…
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Fast Forward Pope Calls for ‘New Page’ Between Israel and the Palestinians
(JTA) — Pope Francis said he hopes for peace between Israel and the Palestinians during his Christmas message. “Peace to women and men of the beloved Holy Land, the land chosen and favored by God,” Francis said Sunday at noon from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The pope called on Israel…
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Fast Forward PJ Library Families in Moscow Get Free Tickets to Jewish Museum
(JTA) — About 2,000 Jewish families in Moscow will receive free tickets to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center located in the Russian capital. The families, subscribers to the PJ Library, a program providing free Jewish children’s books to families, which last year expanded to Russia, starting on the second day of Chanukah, or Monday, Dec. 26, will…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Stabbed 3 Times in West Bank Settlement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli man was stabbed and moderately wounded while walking on the main street of the West Bank settlement of Efrat. The man, in his 50s, was walking with his wife after the start of Shabbat on Friday evening, when a Palestinian assailant stabbed him three times in the settlement located in…
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Fast Forward Vermont Woman Won’t Face Charges for Anti-Semitic Fliers
(JTA) — A woman who wrote and distributed anti-Semitic fliers at a City Council meeting in Burlington, Vermont, will not be arrested and charged. Burlington Police said that distributing the fliers, which assert that Jews have destroyed the city led by Jewish Mayor Miro Weinberger, is not illegal. An investigation was opened, however, since the…
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