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Fast Forward Memorial To Greek Jews Deported By Nazis Covered With Black Spray Paint
(JTA) — A memorial to the Jews of a Greek town who were sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis was vandalized. The Memorial to the Jewish Martyrs of Kastoria, in the northern region of West Macedonia, was covered with black spray-paint on Tuesday, the state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported. “In this place, on March 24…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Could Cut Unprecedented Brazil Visit Over Politics At Home
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may cut his five-day visit to Brazil short over the political developments in Israel. Both Israeli and Brazilian media reported on the possibility of a shortened trip on Tuesday evening, more than a day after the ruling coalition agreed to dissolve the government and go…
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Fast Forward Rambo, Dog Who Helped Catch Palestinian Militant, Honored By Israel’s President
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rambo the dog visited the president of Israel, who honored him for his role in capturing a Palestinian terrorist. Rambo, a 5-year-old Belgian Shepherd mix, was injured during an operation earlier this month with the Police counter-terrorism unit to capture the Palestinian man suspected of killing two Jewish-Israeli co-workers at a factory…
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Fast Forward Airstrikes Blamed On Israel Hit Arms Depot And Hezbollah Base In Syria
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Airstrikes near Damascus blamed on Israel targeted an arms depot and hit a weapons storage facility controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the Tuesday night airstrikes, which Russia’s Defense Ministry said endangered two civilian flights landing at the Damascus and Beirut airports. Three Syrian soldiers also were…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Driver Shot While Attempting To Run Down Israelis In West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was shot and wounded as he attempted to run over with his car Israeli soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus station in the northern West Bank. The Israelis were waiting at the bus stop at a junction just south of Nablus, near a military base, according to the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Coalition Dissolves, Israeli Elections Planned For Spring
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis will soon be heading toward the polls after the heads of all six coalition parties announced that they were dissolving the government, forcing new elections. “Out of national and budgetary responsibility, the leaders of the coalition parties decided, unanimously and unanimously, to dissolve the Knesset and go to new elections at…
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Fast Forward 84-Year-Old Jewish Grandmother Finishes Her College Degree
(JTA) — Janet Fein, 84, practices what she preaches when she says “Never leave anything unfinished.” The Jewish grandmother from Dallas will finally get her degree, in sociology, decades after going straight into the workforce from high school, the Texas Jewish Post reported. She will be among the graduates in the ceremony Wednesday at the University of…
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Fast Forward Simcha Rotem, Last Known Surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Fighter, Dies At 94
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Simcha Rotem, the last known surviving Jewish fighter from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, has died. Rotem, known as Kazik, died on Saturday in Jerusalem at the age of 94. “This is the loss of a special figure, because ‘Kazik’ was a real warrior in the full sense of the word,”…
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