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Fast Forward British Orthodox Jew Forced From Home After Criticizing Israel’s Gaza Operation
An Orthodox Jewish man was forced to leave his home in England after criticizing Israel’s Gaza operation at a protest rally. The Greater Manchester home was vandalized twice with eggs and graffiti and smashed windows, and his car was sprayed with red paint, the Manchester Evening News reported Sunday. The man moved out after he…
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Fast Forward Jack the Ripper Identified as Jewish Barber From Poland
The serial killer Jack the Ripper was identified through DNA as a Jewish barber who immigrated to London from Poland. Businessman Russell Edwards, an amateur Jack the Ripper sleuth, and molecular biologist Dr. Jari Louhelainen of Liverpool John Moores University made the discovery through DNA traces found on a shawl recovered from one of the…
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The Schmooze Was Jack the Ripper a Jew?
(JTA) – When I first saw the headline — “Jack the Ripper identified through DNA traces: sleuth” — I joked to myself: Don’t let it be a Jew. Well, joke’s on me. Courtesy of AFP: But after extracting DNA from a shawl recovered from the scene of one of the killings, which matched relatives of…
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Fast Forward Atlanta Hawks Co-Owner To Sell Team Over Racially Charged Email
Bruce Levenson, a co-owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, is selling his stake in the team after self-reporting a racially insensitive email he sent two years ago. Levenson and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced the sale on Sunday in separate statements. Levenson voluntarily reported the email, in which he racially stereotyped African-American fans, to the…
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Culture How Elvis Presley Missed His True Calling — As a Cantor
In the summer of 1954, Elvis Presley released his first single. He had one problem: He couldn’t play it. The aspiring 19-year-old singer was living with his parents at 462 Alabama Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. With rent at $50 a month, his family was too poor to afford a record player. So, as he often…
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Fast Forward Brussels Shooting Suspect Identified as Islamist Captor in Syria
The Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium has been identified as one of the Islamists who held a French journalist captive in Syria. French journalist Nicolas Henin told reporters at a news conference on Saturday that Mehdi Nemmouche was for six months one of his captors, and that he…
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News My Opa’s story of World War I’s other fight
If the war was the 20th Century's original sin, it started in the east
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News Rochester Mourns Jewish Couple Killed in Plane Crash Off Jamaica
Officials have confirmed that a Jewish couple died in a plane crash off the coast of Jamaica on Friday. Larry and Jane Glazer of Rochester, N.Y. were flying in their private plane Friday morning, when the pilot stopped responding to calls from Coast Guard radio. Both knew how to fly, but officials do not know…
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