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Fast Forward Chile Jews Pitch In To Fight Valparaiso Fire
The Jewish community of Chile plans to send truckloads of supplies to victims of a huge fire raging in the central port city of Valparaiso. The goods, including clothes, food, furniture and construction material, are currently being prepared by the community for dispatch in seven trucks to Valparaiso, the community’s president, Gerardo Gorodischer, told the…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi’ Clothing Store Opens in Heart of Jewish London
A British watchdog on anti-Semitism protested the sale of clothes that are popular with neo-Nazis in a heavily-Jewish neighborhood of London. The Thor Viking store opened recently in North Finchley yards away from the office of the chief rabbi of Britain, The Jewish Chronicle of London reported Thursday, and is selling the Thor Steinar brand…
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Fast Forward Were Ukraine Jews Ordered To ‘Register’ in Restive Donetsk?
Pro-Russian separatists from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine denied any involvement in the circulation of flyers calling on Jews to register with separatists and pay special taxes. The flyers were distributed earlier this week in the city, where pro-Russian separatists led by Denis Pushilin this month took over several government buildings and declared their secession from…
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Fast Forward Tunisian Jews Stabbed on Djerba Island
Police in Tunisia arrested a man they believe stabbed a local middle-aged Jew on the island of Djerba. The suspected aggressor, 38-year-old Lasaad Tounsi, is believed to have caused minor injuries to Morris Bachiri, a Jewish merchant from El Hara El Kabira, on Monday by assaulting him with a sharp object, the French-language news website…
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News Hungary Jews Fret as Vote Signals Shift to Right
In 2009, Csanad Szegedi was euphoric when Jobbik, the radical right-wing nationalist party he co-founded, placed third in Hungary’s elections for the European Parliament, winning enough votes to send three representatives to Brussels, including himself. But after Hungary’s elections for parliament April 6, Szegedi is shaken. The party, many of whose leaders are seen as…
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Opinion 4 Lessons for Jews From the Overland Park Rampage
The tragic shootings in Overland Park, Kansas, seemed, to many of us, like a throwback to a bygone era. It’s no coincidence that the shooter was at least 73 years old. His ideology seems ancient as well: the Ku Klux Klan, Jewish banking conspiracies, hatred of miscegenation. Anti-Semitism is still with us, but usually not…
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Fast Forward President Obama Slams ‘Terrible’ Overland Park Rampage at Easter Event
President Barack Obama on Monday deplored the shootings at Kansas City-area Jewish centers, saying at an Easter season prayer breakfast there was no place for anti-Semitism or other religious-based hatred. The federal government will provide whatever assistance is needed to investigate the attacks that killed three people on Sunday, the president said at the White…
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The Schmooze Celebrities, They’re Just Like Us: Passover Edition
For once, it doesn’t matter if you live in an L.A. mega-mansion or a tiny New York apartment – you’ve still got to clean out your hametz. A happy Passover from all your favorite Jewish celebrities. chag pesach kasher v’sameach israel! (happy passover to everyone in israel and those time zones) — Mayim Bialik (@missmayim)…
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Fast Forward Jewish world marks first day with no hostages in Gaza by shedding their symbols of support
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Opinion The Nazis massacred innocents when their regime was crumbling. What does that say about Minneapolis?
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