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News Jewish Acid-Attack Girls Return to Britain From African Island of Zanzibar
The two Jewish victims of a shocking acid attack in Zanzibar have returned home to London to receive further treatment for their burns, [the Independent reported]( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/five-men-held-over-acid-attack-on-british-charity-workers-in-zanzibar-8751297.html on Friday. Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup, both 18, landed at RAF Northolt airfield today after leaving the Tanzania capital of Dar Es Salaam earlier. “I am just…
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Culture The Last Jews of Ethiopia
The last community synagogue in Gondar, in the north of Ethiopia, is in a rented building cordoned off from the street by large metal sheets. Several men passively stand guard in front. From the outside, a Jewish Agency for Israel sign is the main indication of what lies within. But neighbors know. “You,” two men…
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News Marking Gender Transition in the Mikveh
A number of years ago a friend asked me to co-write a ritual to mark his gender-transition to manhood. I say “friend,” but it would be more accurate to call him “queer family.” I am also a transgender Jew, and he is as close to me as my brothers are. Even so, I was hesitant….
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Fast Forward Jewish Girls Attacked With Acid on African Island of Zanzibar
Men riding a motorbike threw acid at two Jewish British teenage girls in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar region, leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries, a senior police official said. Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee, both 18 and from northwest London, were flown to Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam for treatment. The girls’ parents…
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Fast Forward Is Nazi Treblinka Letter on Auction Block a Fake?
An auction house in Britain is investigating the authenticity of a letter billed as sent by a Nazi official and detailing Jewish transports during the Holocaust. The letter details the transportation of 5,000 Jews daily to the Treblinka extermination camp and is to be auctioned off on August 21 by Mullock’s, an auctioneer in the…
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Fast Forward Germany Cannot Be Neutral on Israel, Angela Merkel Says
Germany will never be neutral when it comes to Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel told a Jewish newspaper. “The heinous crime committed by Germany against the Jews, the betrayal of all civilized values that was the Shoah, will always be present and we can shape the future of the resulting special relationship between Germany and Israel…
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News Mark Leibovich Channels Jewish Outsider Status for Beltway Bestseller ‘This Town’
An anecdote described in the opening of the new book that has been rattling the nation’s capital tells the story of NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell and former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein, who are described as “Jews by religion and local royalty by acclamation.” Invited to a dinner party at the mansion of the…
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Opinion When Canada Kept Jews in Internment Camps
Ringed with barbed wire and isolated from surrounding communities, the notorious internment camp held more than 700 Jews in the early days of World War II. But this wasn’t Germany or Poland. Internment Camp B70 was located in a bucolic corner of the Canadian province of New Brunswick — and only now are locals, and…
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Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Culture She was my Hebrew school bully — and I finally learned what happened to her
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Fast Forward Elon Musk wants your kids to use his chatbot. The same one that praised Hitler.
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Fast Forward Nation’s largest teachers union rejects move to cut ties with ADL
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Culture In this Holocaust story, there are few words, no swastikas, no yellow stars — just movement, passion and empathy
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