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Fast Forward Fire That Destroyed Historic Synagogue Was Second In A Week: Neighbors
(JTA) — Neighbors of a historic synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side reportedly said a fire erupted inside the building just days before the three-alarm blaze all but destroyed Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Sunday night. Local residents told the New York Post that the first blaze broke out inside the vacant building, but the paper said…
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Fast Forward Adelsons Face Police Questions In Netanyahu Corruption Case
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Billionaire and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson and his wife will testify in Israel in a corruption investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s Channel 2 news first reported Sunday evening that the Adelsons will testify next week during their visit to Israel. The couple is arriving in Israel ahead of the visit of…
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Fast Forward 102 Immigrants From India Ready For Normal Life In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 102 immigrants to Israel from India, members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community, are ready to leave their absorption center. The olim, who came to Israel in February from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, have completed their required formal conversion to Judaism and intensive Hebrew language studies, the Shavei Israel…
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Fast Forward ADL To Train Mexico’s 50 U.S. Consulates To Fight Harassment
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League will train the staff of Mexico’s 50 consulates in the United States on how to assist nationals who are victims of attacks and harassment. “Through our regional offices we are the first to be called in case of a hate crime. When a synagogue is defaced, when…
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Fast Forward American Parents Sue Pro-Palestinian Groups Over 1996 West Bank Killing
(JTA) — The American parents of a teen-age yeshiva student shot in 1996 at a bus stop near the West Bank city of Beit El, have filed a lawsuit to recover the damages it was awarded by a jury in federal court in Chicago. Stanley and Joyce Boim on Friday filed the lawsuit in Chicago…
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Fast Forward Teens Identified As Rome Jewish Cemetery Vandals
ROME (JTA) – Police identified four young teenagers as the vandals who smashed or toppled scores of Catholic and Jewish gravestones in Rome’s Verano cemetery. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the four were aged 13 and 14 and came from “good families.” Surveillance videos filmed them smashing headstones, tombs, and memorials in four…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jew In Serious Condition After Altercation With Neighbor
(JTA) — A Ukrainian Jew in his twenties was critically injured by his neighbor. The incident happened in Dnepropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday, according to a statement on the community’s website, which identified the injured community member only as Abraham, 26. The neighbor attacked the man with a sharp object, hitting his leg, according…
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Fast Forward British Media Wrongly Report Israel Quits Eurovision As TV Station Signs Off
JERUSALEM (JTA) — British media reported that Israel has permanently withdrawn from the Eurovision song contest after the closing Israel Broadcasting Authority made its farewells live while reporting the country’s scores. Other countries also took the farewell by IBA host Ofer Nachshon to mean that Israel would be leaving the annual tournament, whose finals took…
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