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Fast Forward Jewish Man ‘Violently Assaulted’ In Crown Heights
(JTA) — A Jewish man was attacked by a group of teenage black males in Crown Heights. The young man, 19, was “violently assaulted,” Collive reported, and is being investigated by the New York Police Department in conjunction with the Hate Crimes Task Force. One member of the group of teens approached the Jewish man…
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Fast Forward Julian Edelman Raises $10K For Pittsburgh Victims By Selling Cleats
BOSTON (JTA) — A California firm paid $10,000 for a pair of Julian Edelman’s game shoes to benefit families of the victims of the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. The New England Patriots’ wide receiver wore the cleats — stamped with the words “The Tree of Life” in Hebrew and an Israeli…
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Fast Forward Birmingham Mayor Blames Only Some Jews for Angela Davis Controversy
(JTA) — Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin partially retracted a statement that blamed local Jews for getting a civil rights award rescinded from Angela Davis. But the mayor still blamed some Jews. In an initial statement issued Sunday, Woodfin wrote that “after protests from our local Jewish community and some of its allies,” the Birmingham Civil…
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Fast Forward Miami Day School Student Dies In Fall From 9th Floor Balcony
(JTA) — A student at the Hebrew Academy of Miami died in a fall from the ninth story of his apartment building. Samuel Farkas on Tuesday evening was locked out of his family’s ninth floor apartment and had been trying to climb down from the balcony of the apartment above his on the tenth floor…
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Fast Forward 5 Israeli Soldiers Arrested For Allegedly Beating 2 Palestinian Terror Suspects
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israel Defense Forces officer and four soldiers were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly beating two Palestinian terror suspects while in their custody. The five soldiers are all members of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda infantry battalion, a unit for religious soldiers. The Palestinian men were arrested near Ramallah while Israeli troops…
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Fast Forward Israel Predicts Foreign Country Will Interfere In Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of the Israel Security Agency said an unnamed foreign state “intends to intervene” in Israel’s national elections. Russia said a couple of days later that it’s not the state. The head of the ISA, Nadav Argaman, said Monday that the meddling in the April 9 vote will come through cyberattacks and…
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Fast Forward Shira Ish-Ran, Whose Baby Died After Ofra Terror Attack, Leaves Hospital
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Shira Ish-Ran, the woman whose prematurely born baby died after she was shot in a terror attack last month left the hospital, on her feet. “We are a walking miracle,” she told reporters as she left the hospital. “I arrived at the hospital lying down and left walking.” Ish-Ran, who left leaning…
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Fast Forward Jewish Charity In Canada Audited For Giving Donor Money To IDF-Linked Projects
MONTREAL (JTA)— Canada’s largest and oldest Jewish charity, the Jewish National Fund of Canada, is downplaying news that it was audited by Canadian tax authorities for using donor money to fund projects linked to the IDF. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Jan. 4 that the audit was carried out by the Canada Revenue Agency…
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