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Fast Forward Catalonia Jewish Community Divided By Independence Vote
(JTA) — Violence between police and pro-independence protesters in Barcelona will not disrupt holiday services there, a leader of the Jewish community said. Victor Sorenssen, a leader of the Jewish community of the capital of Catalonia, an autonomous region with its own language and many residents who seek independence from Spain, said the city’s Jewish…
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Fast Forward Lena Dunham Connected To Judaism Through Israeli Poet Yehuda Amichai
(JTA) — Jewish actress, writer and director Lena Dunham announced to her 3.2 million followers on Instagram that she has connected to Judaism through the poetry of modern Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. In a post on erev Yom Kippur, Dunham wrote: “This past year a special person helped me connect to my Judaism in a…
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Fast Forward British University Censors Holocaust Survivor’s Talk Comparing Israel To Nazis
(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor’s speech that compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazis treatment of Jews was censored by a British university. Manchester University censored the title of a talk in March by Holocaust survivor Marika Sherwood, The Guardian reported on Friday. The original talk was titled: “A Holocaust survivor’s story and the…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Leader: Israeli Jews Must ‘Return’ To Former Countries
(JTA) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on Jews in Israel to “return to the countries from which they came” before his terror organization fights a war with Israel. In his speech Sunday on the Shi’ite commemoration of Ashura, which marks the killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Nasrallah called on Jews who immigrated to…
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Fast Forward ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ Host Monty Hall Dies At 96
(JTA) — Monty Hall, the friendly and engaging host of the long-running television game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” has died. Hall died of heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday at the age of 96. He suffered a heart attack in June shortly after his wife of almost 70 years…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Cries When He Learns About Relative Who Died Defying Nazis
(JTA) — In the upcoming season premiere of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” Bernie Sanders gets emotional when he discovers a relative died while standing up to the Nazis during World War II. In a clip released to JTA, the Jewish lawmaker is visibly moved as the show’s host, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates,…
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Fast Forward Coroner: Otto Warmbier Wasn’t Tortured, Contradicting Trump, Parents
(JTA) — An Ohio coroner said that a post-mortem examination of Otto Warmbier, the Jewish-American college student who died after being imprisoned in North Korea, did not show any obvious signs of torture. The Wednesday statement contradicted President Trump and Warmbier’s parents, who claimed the 22-year-old was tortured by North Korea. Trump said Warmbier “was tortured…
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Fast Forward Adelson Loses Appeal In Suit Over Prostitute Claims
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nevada’s Supreme Court dismissed a bid by Sheldon Adelson to sue Jewish Democrats who hyperlinked to an article alleging the casino magnate allowed prostitutes to work his casino in Macau. The hyperlink, in a National Jewish Democratic Council online petition during the 2012 presidential election, was to an Associated Press article covering…
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