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Fast Forward French Jewish Boy, 8, Beaten In Anti-Semitic Attack
(JTA) — A Jewish boy was beaten by teen-age assailants in a suburb of Paris in what French prosecutors are calling an anti-Semitic attack. The boy, 8, was wearing a kippa while walking to a tutor on Tuesday afternoon in the Paris suburb of Paris when two assailants, about 15 years old, knocked him to…
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Fast Forward Polish TV Host Says Jews In Holocaust ‘Were Part Of Their Own Destruction’
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A television host in Poland suggested that the former Nazi concentration camps in the country be called “Jewish death camps.” The comment comes amid tensions between Poland and Israel over Polish legislation that would criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps,” designed to make it clear that Nazi Germany…
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Fast Forward Shira Goodman Steps Down As CEO Of Staples After Only One Year
(JTA) — Staples CEO Shira Goodman abruptly departed as head of the retailer after a year and a half on the job. The company announced Friday that Goodman was stepping down. Her successor was later announced as former Coca-Cola executive Alexander Douglas. Staples went private less than a year ago after it was acquired by…
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Fast Forward Israel, Poland To Speak Over New Bill Banning Phrase ‘Polish Death Camps’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Poland will open an “immediate dialogue” over legislation that would criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, spoke on Sunday evening by phone and “agreed that teams from the two countries would open an immediate dialogue in…
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Fast Forward Protesters Hold Vigil Against Restaurant With Mural Of Palestinian Terrorist
(JTA) — Protesters gathered outside of an Arab-style bakery and restaurant in Oakland, California to protest a life-size mural in the shop featuring convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh. Sunday’s vigil also protested a book reading and signing by Sunaina Maira, an Asian-American studies professor at the University of California, Davis of her new book about…
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Fast Forward N.J. Man Gets Transplant After Photo Of ‘In Need Of Kidney’ T-Shirt Goes Viral
(JTA) — A New Jersey man who sought a kidney by wearing a T-shirt at Disney World with the request and his cell phone number received a donation from a stranger. Robert Leibowitz wore a T-shirt every day during a week-long vacation at Disney World last summer that read: “In Need of Kidney. O Positive,”…
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Fast Forward Billionaire Couple Barry And Honey Sherman Were Murdered, Police Say
(JTA) — Toronto police said they believe billionaire philanthropist Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, were murdered in their Toronto home. The conclusion comes six weeks after the couple was found dead near their indoor pool and a week after private investigators announced that the couple was murdered. Police initially theorized that the deaths were a murder-suicide,…
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Fast Forward Israel Appalled Over Poland Effort To Criminalize The Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. “The law is baseless; I strongly oppose it” Netanyahu said in a…
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