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Fast Forward Young Jews Are Just As Religious As Their Parents, Bucking Global Trends
(JTA) — Jewish young adults in the U.S. and Israel are, on average, just as religious as their elders, even though young people worldwide are largely less religious than their parents, a new study has found. The study, released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, also found that Israelis are far less religious than citizens…
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Fast Forward Non-Jewish Barbershop In Italy Targeted In Anti-Semitic Vandalism
(JTA) — A barbershop in Italy, and Holocaust monuments in the Netherlands and France were targeted in separate incidents deemed anti-Semitic. The perpetrators of the incident involving Gianni Errichiello’s barbershop in a northern suburb of Turin in northern Italy torched a car parked in front of the establishment on Marconi Square. They splashed red paint…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis: ‘Never Forget The Shoah’
(JTA) — Pope Francis called on his emissaries and followers to never forget the Holocaust. “The memory of the Shoah and its atrocious violence must never be forgotten. It should be a constant warning for all of us of an obligation to reconciliation, of reciprocal comprehension and love toward our ‘elder brothers,’ the Jews,” the…
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Fast Forward Brother of Hamas Members Arrested For Dropping Marble Slab On Soldier’s Head
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man suspected of killing an Israeli soldier by dropping a marble slab on his dead has been arrested. The Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, announced on Wednesday that it had arrested Islam Yousef Abu Hamid, 32, last week after the lifting of a gag order on the arrest; the…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Supreme Leader Suggests ‘People Of Palestine’ Vote On Fate Of The Land
(JTA) — Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called for a referendum in order to decide the future of the historical lands of Palestine. In a meeting Sunday with university professors and intellectuals, Khamenei suggested that people who trace their roots to before the creation of the modern State of Israel should be polled, including…
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Fast Forward Fake North Korean Tweet Calls Netanyahu a ‘Criminal’ and ‘Liar’
(JTA) — A fake tweet calling Israel’s prime minister a “stinking Zionist” nearly led to an international incident with North Korea in the hours before the historic summit between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and President Donald Trump. The fake tweet appeared Monday on an account bearing the name of North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri…
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Fast Forward Street Near Paris Named For Nakba, Dubbing Israel A ‘Catastrophe’
Update, 1:15 p.m.: On Tuesday afternoon, the signs for Nabka Alley were ordered removed by the mayor of the Bezons municipality in the northwestern Paris region. Dominique Lesparre made the order at the request of the top central government official for the Val-d’Oise region, who said they could “seriously disrupt public order,” according to reports….
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Fast Forward Quicken Loans Makes It Kosher For Orthodox Jews To Take Out A Mortgage
(JTA) — Orthodox Jews can continue to take out mortgages and other loans from Quicken Loans after the company resolved a Jewish legal problem. Agudath Israel of America, a major haredi Orthodox organization, issued a Jewish legal ruling in April prohibiting Jews from taking out loans from the Detroit-based company because it is majority-owned by Jews —…
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