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Fast Forward WATCH: Astronaut Records Holocaust Remembrance Message In Outer Space
(JTA) — American astronaut Andrew “Drew” Feustel didn’t let being in outer space stop him from commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day. Instead, Feustel recorded a video message aboard the International Space Station to honor the six million Jews killed by the Nazis. In the video released on Thursday, the NASA astronaut displayed a replica of a…
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Fast Forward Polish President Claims New Holocaust Law Won’t Block Survivors’ Accounts
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The presidents of Poland and Israel met near the Auschwitz death camp, where they held talks together and then led the March of the Living. Polish President Andrzej Duda assured his Israeli counterpart, Reuven Rivlin, on Thursday afternoon prior to the two-mile march from the Auschwitz barracks to the Birkenau death…
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Fast Forward Hamas Machine Guns Fire On Israeli Fighter Jet, Triggering Rocket Sirens
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rocket alerts sounded throughout southern Israel, triggered by Hamas machine gun fire. The alarms began sounding after midnight between Wednesday and Thursday, sending residents of Gaza border area communities to bomb shelters. The alarms were triggered in the wake of an Israel Air Force strike on a Hamas military site in Gaza,…
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Fast Forward Violent Anti-Semitic Attacks Are Less Frequent But More Brutal: Report
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Violent anti-Semitic attacks worldwide directed against Jewish communities, Jewish people and their property decreased by about 9 percent in 2017, according to an annual report. There were 327 cases in 2017 compared to 361 in 2016, according to the annual “Antisemitism Worldwide” report by the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary…
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Fast Forward Israel Made Teen Ethiopian Bible Quiz Whiz Pay Thousands Of Dollars To Compete
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish teen from Ethiopia reportedly has deposited thousands of dollars in order to participate in the final stages of the International Bible Quiz in Israel. The deposit is to insure that Sintayehu Shafrao, 18, returns to Gondar after the competition ends next week on Israel’s Independence Day. Shafrao will represent Ethiopians…
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Fast Forward After Town Votes To Keep ‘Swastika Trail’ Street Name, Residents Go To Court
(JTA) — Residents of a town in Canada have launched an application for judicial review of the local council’s decision not to rename a street called Swastika Trail. In January, the Puslinch Township Council in Ontario voted 4-1 against changing the name of the privately owned road. Two months earlier, the neighborhood association voted to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Ask Senate To Stop Bill Weakening Americans With Disabilities Act
(JTA) — Fifty-five national Jewish organizations have called on the U.S. Senate to oppose legislation that would weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act. The organizations sent a letter, organized by the Jewish Federations of North America, to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., opposing the Americans with Disabilities Act Education…
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Fast Forward Dershowitz Meets With Trump, Who Seeks His ‘Input’ As Legal Troubles Mount
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Alan Dershowitz, the famed constitutional lawyer, is dining with President Trump as the president faces new risk in a federal probe into his campaign. “Dershowitz has been at the White House for part of today as Trump seeks his input, and he’s supposed to have dinner with the president tonight, per White…
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