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News Synagogue Damaged, Jewish Service Interrupted as Meteorite Strikes Russia
A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to earth which shattered windows and damaged buildings, injuring more than 500 people. People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave, in the industrial city 950…
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News Florida Police Release Video in Mysterious Murder of Jewish Snowbirds
More than month after the murder of two Jewish retirees from Toronto in their Florida townhouse, police have released a video recording that could shed some light on the mysterious slayings. Hallandale Beach police have been particularly tight-lipped about the January 10 murder of David Pichosky, 71, and Rochelle Wise, 66, who live in Toronto…
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Fast Forward Frank Lautenberg Won’t Seek Reelection
Senator Frank Lautenberg, the New Jersey Democrat who at 89 is the U.S. Senate’s oldest member, said on Thursday he will not seek re-election next year. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a fellow Democrat, is seen as a front-runner to replace Lautenberg, a self-made multimillionaire businessman who became a leading liberal voice in the Senate. In…
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Culture ‘Only Decent People,’ Dutch Jewish Film About Interracial Lust, Sparks Debate
A dreamy expression slowly spreads across Geza Weisz’s handsome face as he watches scantily clad young black women dancing around him at an Amsterdam nightclub. The scene appears in “Only Decent People,” a dark and provocative Dutch-language film that examines the fraught relations between the country’s Jews and other minorities and stars Weisz, a Jewish…
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Fast Forward Erika Glazer Pledges $30M for Renovation of Los Angeles’ Wilshire Temple
A Los Angeles philanthropist has pledged $30 million to support a vast restoration project for the city’s landmark Wilshire Boulevard Temple. The donation by Erika Glazer, to be paid over a 15-year period, guarantees the financing of a $150 million facelift for the historic Reform synagogue, whose large dome and Byzantine-style sanctuary has earned it…
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Fast Forward Designer John Galliano’s Outfit Wasn’t Mocking Ultra-Orthodox Jews: ADL
Designer John Galliano was just getting creative and was not mocking ultra-Orthodox Jews when he stepped out in a hat, pinstripe suit and curls, the Anti-Defamation League said. Claims the bad-boy French coutier was dressing in mock Hasidic attire are a “ridiculous, absurd distortion,” ADL chief Abraham Foxman said in a statement. “This is John…
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Fast Forward Switzerland Blocked Just 3,000 Jewish Refugees Fleeing Holocaust
Swiss authorities turned away only 3,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust and not 24,500 as believed, French Nazi hunter and historian Serge Klarsfeld said. Klarsfeld told Switzerland’s Der Sonntag newspaper that the figure of 24,500 came from imprecise archive material processed by the authors of the 1999 Bergier report on Switzerland’s Holocaust-era record and called…
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News Black Market for Jewish Grave Sites Grows on Web
A black market in Jewish graves is hiding in plain sight on the classified pages. Defunct Jewish burial societies have been selling cemetery plots at bargain basement prices through classified ads on Craigslist and in the print edition of the Forward — even though New York and New Jersey state laws bar these sales. Each…
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