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Fast Forward Last Living Survivor Of Sobibor Death Camp Dies
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The last living survivor of the Nazi death camp Sobibor has died. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday at a hospital in central Israel at the age of 96. He moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, according to the Jerusalem Post. Sobibor was built and operated by the SS during World War II near the…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Terrorist Injures 2 Israelis In Jerusalem, Shot Dead
(JTA) — A 50-year-old man was seriously injured along with a 16-year-old student who was moderately wounded in a Jerusalem stabbing attack that ended with the slaying of the Palestinian perpetrator. The incident, which occurred Friday morning in the Old City of Jerusalem, was filmed in its entirety in security cameras. The footage shows 19-year-old…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Jews In Staten Island Remove Eruv After Anti-Semitic Backlash
(JTA) — An eruv, or symbolic boundary for Sabbath-observant Jews, was removed from a neighborhood on Staten Island. The eruv had been put up on utility poles around the neighborhood by a group of Hasidic Orthodox Jewish residents. They removed it after other residents put up lawn signs expressing opposition to an influx or religious…
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Fast Forward Belgian Model Spat At, Chased After Walking Naked Through Hasidic Williamsburg
(JTA) — A Belgian model was spit at and chased for walking completely naked through the largely Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Marisa Papen and her crew undertook the photo shoot on March 21, at the end of the Purim holiday, but posted a video of the chase on her website just last week. She…
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Fast Forward Teenage Yeshiva Boys Save Drowning Man With Swastika Tattoo
(JTA) — A group of teenage yeshiva boys saved a man from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston. The man they saved, it turned out, has a tattoo of a Nazi swastika on his hand. The incident occurred last week, NBC10 Boston reported. The teens, who study at a yeshiva high school in…
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Fast Forward It’s Dangerous To Wear A Kippah In Germany, Official Admits
BERLIN (JTA) – It is dangerous to identify publicly as Jewish in Germany, including wearing a kippah, Germany’s commissioner on anti-Semitism said. In a wide-ranging interview, Felix Klein told the Berliner Morgenpost on May 24 that he could not recommend that Jews wear a kippah everywhere and any time in Germany. He also said public…
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Fast Forward Settler Suspended From IDF After Setting Palestinian Field On Fire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli settler caught on camera by an Israeli human rights organization setting fire to a Palestinian-owned field in the northern West Bank was suspended from his combat unit in the Israel Defense Forces. The soldier was home on a weekend leave from the military earlier this month when the incident occurred…
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Fast Forward Politico Accused Of Anti-Semitism Over Bernie Sanders ‘Money Tree’ Graphic
(JTA) — The cover story in this week’s Politico magazine, about how Jewish presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came to be a millionaire, shows him standing next to a tree sprouting leaves made of money. Progressives on Twitter, including Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the illustrations anti-Semitic. Politico originally tweeted the article under the…
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