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Fast Forward Tens Of Thousands Of Pilgrims Mark Lag B’Omer On Mount Meron
ousands of pilgrims traveled to Meron in northern Israel to mark the start of Lag B’Omer. Mount Meron is the burial place of grave of Jewish Kabbalist and mystic Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a popular pilgrimage site for the holiday. The pilgrims began lighting bonfires after midnight on Saturday night, with hundreds of thousands of…
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Fast Forward French President’s Party Boots Politician Over ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweets
(JTA) — The party of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron withdrew from its parliamentary elections ticket a politician who made statements deemed anti-Semitic. Christian Gerin, a journalist, was taken off the En Marche ticket Friday, a day after he was nominated to represent the party in next month’s elections for the French parliament, in connection with…
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Fast Forward Jewish, Catholic Headstones Damaged In Rome Cemetery
ROME (JTA) — Unidentified individuals damaged dozens of gravestones and memorials in both the Catholic and Jewish sections of one of Rome’s main cemeteries. According to the Italian media, the damage was discovered Friday morning during an inspection before the Verano cemetery opened. The culprits smashed or toppled crosses as well as Stars of David and damaged…
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Fast Forward Norway’s Largest Union Calls For Total Boycott Of Israel
(JTA) — Norway’s largest trade union reaffirmed its support for a total boycott of Israel. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, known locally as LO, represents over 900,000 unionized workers in the country – more than one quarter of the adult working population. Its delegates voted 193 to 117 on Friday in favor of a…
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News May Is Jewish American Heritage Month. Here’s Why You Didn’t Know That.
(JTA) — Only one religious group in the U.S. has a federally proclaimed month celebrating their history: the Jews. In 2006, President George W. Bush officially declared May as Jewish American Heritage Month. Yet Jewish American Heritage Month, or JAHM, hardly seems a priority — not in the government, not in the media, not even within the…
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Fast Forward Hamas Arrests Man For Commander’s Assassination
(JTA) — Hamas arrested a suspect in the March killing of one of its top commanders, whose death was blamed on Israel. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a press conference on Thursday in Gaza that his group has a suspect in custody in connection with the shooting of Mazan Fukha, adding that the alleged…
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Fast Forward Jews In Hungary Celebrate Roma Singer’s Eurovision Progress
(JTA) — Roma and Jewish groups in Hungary celebrated as a Roma singer’s song about oppressed minorities advanced to the finals of the Eurovision song contest. Joci Pápai, 35, is the first Roma to represent Hungary in the continental song competition among 42 countries. He made the cut in the semi-finals Thursday night in Kiev, along…
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Fast Forward National Front Got French Mayor To Close Holocaust Exhibit During Election
(JTA) — A French mayor closed down an exhibition on the Holocaust at the urging of politicians from the far-right National Front party, who said it constituted illicit campaigning on election day. The mayor of Ploeren, Gilbert Lorho, ordered the closure of the exhibition on May 7, the day when millions of Frenchmen participated in…
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