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Fast Forward Two Weeks After Surviving Terror Attack, Israeli Teen Becomes A Medic
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli teen who was wounded in a Palestinian terror attack last month received his EMT certification on Thursday, only days after being released from the hospital. Dvir Shnerb, 19, was seriously injured in the Aug. 3 attack, which killed his sister, Rina, 17, and injured his father. The family, from Lod,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Visits Hebron For First Time Since 1998, Vows Jews Will Remain
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, making his first visit to Hebron since 1998, said Wednesday that the West Bank city “will never be empty of Jews.” Netanyahu made the remarks at a ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the massacre of Jews in Hebron, a mostly Palestinian city about 18 miles…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez: Criticizing Netanyahu Isn’t Anti-Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman Democrat congresswoman from New York, said her criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not be seen as shots at the Jewish state. “The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” Ocasio Cortez told Israel’s Channel 12 News in a recent press…
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Fast Forward Ex-Imam Removed From Canadian Elections Over Anti-Semitic Comments
MONTREAL (JTA)—The Liberal Party of Canada ousted a candidate for upcoming national election after B’nai Brith Canada revealed past allegedly anti-Semitic comments. Hassan Guillet, a former imam running for election in a Montreal district, was removed on Friday from contention for the Oct. 21 election. Gulliet gained international attention when he spoke out following a…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jewish Man, Teen Son Stabbed With Box Cutter Outside Synagogue
(JTA) — A Jewish man and his teenage son were seriously wounded when they were stabbed with a box cutter outside a synagogue in Brooklyn. The father, 45, and his son, 18, got into an argument early Sunday morning with three men who were drinking outside the synagogue in the Kensington section bordering the heavily…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Man Hit In Face With Belt In Brooklyn Attack
(JTA) — A Jewish man was verbally and physically attacked in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Flatbush. In the Saturday afternoon attack, two men who may have been drunk hit the Jewish man in the face with a belt and yelled “anti-Jewish racial slurs,” the Vosizneias Jewish news website reported. No age was given…
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Fast Forward Pics Of Thousands Of Yeshiva U Students Appear On White Nationalist Website
(JTA) — The photos of thousands of students and faculty of Yeshiva University appear on a white nationalist and anti-Semitic website. The photos were posted on the Vanguard News Network Forum, in a thread that mocked Jews’ for their appearance. The thread first appeared on June 3rd, 2018, and on June 27th, 2018, the first Yeshiva…
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Fast Forward Poway Rabbi Who Lost Finger In Synagogue Shooting Gets Lifelike Prosthetic
(JTA) — The rabbi who lost his finger in the April shooting attack on the Chabad of Poway in California has received a lifelike prosthetic finger. The silicone prosthetic is meant to help his hand function properly and is removed for sleep. Sam Heifetz, a third-generation prosthetist at Orthocraft Prosthetic and Orthotic Services in Brooklyn,…
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