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Fast Forward Freed Palestinian Hijacker Leila Khaled Will Speak At Europe Parliament Event
BRUSSELS (JTA) — Leila Khaled, a Palestinian woman who was convicted of terrorism and who advocates violence against Israelis today, is slated to speak at the European Parliament about women’s rights. Khaled, who was invited to Brussels to speak Tuesday by lawmakers representing the far-left Izquierda Unida party from Spain, was arrested while carrying two…
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News Can 23andMe Tell Us If Jews Are A Race — And Is That A Good Thing?
Phil Mazo, a comedian based in Jersey City, NJ, was reading through the to-do list on his phone when he decided it might be time to check off one item that had been on the list for some time: Buy a take-home genome testing kit from the company 23andMe. After finding a deal on a…
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Fast Forward Warsaw’s 211-Year-Old Jewish Cemetery Devastated By Storm
A recent violent summer storm toppled countless of graves and split thousands of trees in Warsaw’s Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery, founded in 1806, is largely abandoned and has only a few volunteers to maintain its 83 acres and 250,000 marked headstones. “This scene is terrible,” a visitor told the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Hamevasser. “Thousands of Jewish…
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Fast Forward Shmuley Boteach Defends Trump For Shunning Warsaw Ghetto Memorial
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is defending President Trump’s decision not to visit the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during his sojourn to Poland. Boteach, who has been a vocal defender of President Trump in recent months, responded in a statement to Poland’s Chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, after Schudrich criticized Trump’s decision to skip the monument….
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Fast Forward My Nazi Aunt’s Dinner Party Ended — With Cold-Blooded Murder Of 180 Jews
In March 1945, an Austrian countess named Margit Batthyany had a dinner party at her castle near the Hungarian border. After the soiree, her Nazi-sympathizer boyfriend told guests to join him on a chilling mission. They went to a group of 180 Jews who were working as slave laborers digging trenches in a nearby field….
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Fast Forward European Lawmakers Protest Hosting Relatives Of Jailed Palestinians
(JTA) — Lawmakers from 15 E.U. member countries protested the hosting at the European Parliament of relatives of Palestinians who are in jail for murdering Israelis in terrorist attacks. The 17 European Parliament lawmakers from Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and 11 other countries expressed their opposition to the move in an open letter they…
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Fast Forward Soros Says Europe Faces ‘Existential Crisis’ Amid Brexit
Billionaire financier George Soros warned the European Union on Thursday that it was facing an “existential crisis,” saying the bloc should not let protracted Brexit talks distract it from making vital reforms. Soros, a liberal philanthropist, wrote in an article published by Project Syndicate that Europe needed to radically reinvent itself. “Negotiating the separation with…
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Opinion Dear Europe: 3 Things You Should Know About Jared, Trump — And Us
Dear Europe: I fear that you, our European allies, are getting the wrong impression of the United States, or at least of Americans. We are not all like our current president, who seems more at home with autocratic, gilded Middle East royalty than with duly elected leaders of friendly democracies. Donald Trump himself tweeted that…
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