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Fast Forward Ehud Halevy, Jewish Victim of Caught-on-Tape Police Beating, Files Civil Right Suit
A Brooklyn man who was beaten by New York police officers at a Chabad youth center in Brooklyn has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Ehud Halevy, 21, filed the lawsuit Jan. 22 in Brooklyn federal court. The assault last October was captured by a security camera. The video shows Halevy exchanging words with a male…
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News Jews Living in Fear, European Leader Concedes
Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said. “Yes, Jewish People are living in fear in Europe but this is not 1929, this is 2012,” European Parliament President Martin Schultz has said Jan. 22 during a speech…
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Fast Forward Final Israel Election Results Shows Dead Even 60/60 Left-Right Split
Israel’s final election results show that the right-wing and left-wing blocs are evenly split. The Likud Party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a combined campaign with Avidgor Liberman’s right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, took 31 seats in the 19th Knesset, down from the 42 seats now held by the two parties, according to results…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Stays in Power After Israel Vote, Faces Sharp Challenges
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu narrowly won an election in which disgruntled voters catapulted a new centrist challenger into second place and he now faces the daunting task of building a coalition. Tuesday’s vote crystallised demands for attention to bread-and-butter issues over the ambitions of religiously fired hardliners and largely sidelined foreign policy issues such as…
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News Boxer Yuri Foreman Makes Inspiring Comeback
Yuri Foreman, the Orthodox rabbi-in-training and former boxing champ, is on the comeback trail — and he thanks his fellow Jews for giving him the inspiration to make it happen. The onetime WBA world light middleweight champion returns to the ring with a non-title bout against Brandon Baue in New York on Wednesday, January 23….
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News Nechemya Weberman Gets 103 Years for Sex Abuse, and Satmars Say ‘Whoa’
The stunning 103-year prison term imposed on Brooklyn ‘therapist’ Nechemya Weberman for sexually abusing a girl has unleashed fierce debate, with many members of his ultra-Orthodox community saying the harsh sentence is unfair especially compared with punishment meted out to other notorious criminals. Critics claim the long sentence will deter future abuse victims from coming…
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Life Driving Miss Simi
This is a story about Bernie. Bernie turned 14 this year. He’s loud, and smelly, but we love him anyway. He’s our Toyota Camry: the requisite newlyweds’ POS car that has close to 190,000 miles on it, and is constantly teetering on the brink of death. The driver side window broke years ago and never…
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Fast Forward Exit Polls Show Very Narrow Lead for Bibi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a frantic, last-minute appeal to supporters to rush to the polls after an unexpectedly high turnout in Tuesday’s parliamentary election looked set to benefit centre-left opponents. EXIT POLLS: ISRAELI RIGHT-WING BLOC WINS 61-62 OF PARLIAMENT’S 120 SEATS TO 58-59 SEATS FOR CENTRE-LEFT Netanyahu’s rightist Likud party, running in a…
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