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Fast Forward 16-Year-Old Stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Dies of Wounds
A 16-year-old victim of the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade stabbing attack has died. Shira Banki died Sunday afternoon at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, where she had been fighting for her life after being stabbed in the chest and stomach. Her family agreed to donate her organs, Hadassah announced. “The murder at the pride…
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Opinion The Ultra-Orthodox Hatred Behind the Stabbing at Jerusalem Gay Pride
If a community’s respected religious leaders preach, over and over again, that gay people deserve to be killed, isn’t it inevitable that someone will try to kill them? That’s one of the lessons from today’s stabbing of six people at the Jerusalem Pride Parade. Of course, it was also the lesson ten years ago at…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Attacker Stabs 6 at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and injured six participants of an annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police and witnesses said. Police reportedly said a suspect is the same man who was convicted of a similar attack in 2005 and was recently freed from prison, the Times of Israel reported. It was the…
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Fast Forward Woman Detained for Taking Torah to Kotel
Israel Police officers detained a women’s rights activist at the Western Wall and confiscated her Torah scroll. Rachel Cohen Yeshurun, a Women of the Wall board member, was taken into police custody prior to a service Friday and released shortly afterwards, The Jerusalem Post reported. Women of the Wall runs gender egalitarian services at the…
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Fast Forward UNESCO Slams Israeli Archeological Digs in East Jerusalem
Israeli officials deplored UNESCO’s condemnation of Israeli archaeological activity in Jerusalem’s Old City. At a meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted 13-2, with five abstentions, to keep the Old City on its list of endangered World Heritage sites. It condemned the “persistence of the Israeli illegal excavations” in the…
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Fast Forward Selfies at Jerusalem Holy Site Are Palestinian Trend
Palestinians young and old have jumped on a trend for taking “selfies” at Al Aqsa, the 8th century Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, both as a personal memento and for relatives prevented from visiting the ancient compound. While selfies are hardly new, Palestinians have embraced the phenomenon during the holy month of Ramadan as a way…
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Fast Forward Cruz Blasts Obama for Opening Embassy in Havana Before Jerusalem
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Declared Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) contrasted President Barack Obama’s announcement of plans to open an embassy in Havana, Cuba, with the U.S. refusal to move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem. “How sad is it that under the Obama administration the United States is going to have an embassy in…
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Fast Forward Home of Har Nof Synagogue Terrorist Sealed
The home of one of the Palestinian terrorists who murdered four rabbis and a policeman in an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue was sealed by the Israeli military. The eastern Jerusalem home of Uday Abu Jamal, 22, who was killed by police during the November 18, 2014 attack, was cemented shut on Wednesday. It is…
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