Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Eighth-Grader Who Drew Swastika on Suburban Boston Field Won’t Face Charges
— A 13-year-old boy who allegedly drew a swastika on a Boston-area school football field will not face criminal charges. The teen, an eighth-grader at the Georgetown Middle/High School, dragged his feet on the field’s artificial grass on April 28 in order to create the anti-Semitic symbol, the Boston Globe reported Monday, citing a joint…
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Fast Forward Model of Oskar Schindler’s Gold Ring Donated by Australian Jeweler
SYDNEY (JTA) — A long-thought lost model used by grateful Jewish workers to create a gold ring for Oskar Schindler has been donated to the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre, where it will go on display. The model that lay in the Melbourne workshop of ring maker Jozef Gross for more than 50 years. The ring-making…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Convicted in Brutal Murder of Jewish West Bank Mom of 6
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian teen has been convicted in an Israeli military court in the brutal murder of Dafna Meir, a mother of six, in her West Bank home. The Palestinian attacker, 16, was convicted of murder and illegal possession of a weapon on Monday in Judea Military Court, the IDF announced on Tuesday. He…
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Holocaust Monument Is Vandalized
— Unidentified persons vandalized a Holocaust monument in Lithuania on the anniversary of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s birthday. The monument in Vilkaviskis, a city located 90 miles west of the capital Vilnius, was stripped of its marble tiles and smashed in several parts on April 20, according to a report posted seven days later on the Facebook…
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Fast Forward Michigan JCC and Day School Hit by Bomb Threat
— The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor in Michigan was evacuated after an unknown person called in a bomb threat. The unidentified caller on Monday morning said that a bomb would explode in a locker in the building in 30 minutes, the Ann Arbor News reported, citing David Shtulman, executive director of the…
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Fast Forward British Labour Party Suspends Lawmaker for Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts
— Britain’s Labour Party suspended a local city councilman after a British political watchdog website produced Facebook posts in which he said that Israel should have been created in the United States and that it is not too late to move Israeli Jews there. Ilyas Aziz, a city councilman for Nottingham in north-central England, was…
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Apologizes to Victims in Court
— A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard currently on trial in Germany apologized to his victims in court. Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS officer on trial for being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, said Friday in court in the western German city of Detmold, that he is “ashamed that I knowingly let…
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Fast Forward Montreal Police Seize 8,000 Bottles of Illegal Kosher-for-Passover Wine
MONTREAL —Police seized some 8,000 bottles of kosher wine in what appeared to be a Passover-related bootlegging bust at a Montreal synagogue. Two men were arrested at the Young Israel of Montreal synagogue on April 26, where police found 650 cases of kosher wine – from Israel, Australia, and the U.S. – in its basement….
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