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Fast Forward Right-Wing British Party Calls for Kosher Slaughter Ban
Britain’s right-wing UKIP party has come out in support of passing legislation that would ban the production of ritually slaughtered meat. The move by UKIP, or the United Kingdom Independence Party, came Tuesday in a statement sent to media, which made UKIP the first major political party in the country to call for a ban…
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Fast Forward Paris Kosher Supermarket Killer Filmed The Attack
The Islamic terrorist who killed four Jewish men at a kosher supermarket in Paris filmed the attack. Amedy Coulibaly recorded seven minutes of the attack on a video camera, including the shooting deaths of three of the victims, CNN reported Friday, citing a U.S. intelligence official. Citing a French source close to the investigation, the…
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Food Celebrating a Gluten-Free Kosher Cookbook
Aviva Kanoff with her cookbook, “Gluten Free Around the World.” Photographs courtesy of Aviva Kanoff. Aboard the Balclutha, a historical ship docked near the San Francisco Maritime Museum, an incongruous assortment of Bay Area denizens from Chabad, the art world and elsewhere came together last month to celebrate the publication of “Gluten Free Around the…
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Fast Forward Heartbreaking Last Texts of Kosher Supermarket Victim Yoav Hattab
One of the kosher supermarket terror victims reportedly pleaded with a friend to observe Shabbat in his heartbreaking final texts just minutes before the deadly carnage erupted. Chabad published the last text message exchange of 21-year-old Yoav Hattab, one of the victims killed at a kosher supermarket in Paris last week. In the exchange, Hattab…
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Opinion Where’s the Moral Clarity of #JeSuisCharlie When Free Speech Isn’t Safe?
After any great tragedy, especially if it involves a sensational crime, people invariably set to work. Societies erect symbolic monuments of affinity and empathy. Narratives are constructed to make sense of the cataclysm. A sense of order is restored through theatrical displays of civic unity and common purpose. And the collective hunt is on for…
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Fast Forward Many French Jews Believe Marchers Rallied for Charlie Hebdo — Not Jewish Victims
(JTA) — As he marched through Paris with some 1.5 million people, Philippe Schmidt felt he was experiencing a “beautiful moment of unity.” For Schmidt, a Jewish human rights lawyer and vice president of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, Sunday’s so-called Republican March was “a sign of popular mobilization against extremism” following three attacks…
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Opinion How Charlie Hebdo Attack Represents a Genuine Clash Between Civilizations
“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.” — H.L. Mencken, Baltimore journalist and curmudgeon “And when you hear somebody say this is not about sex, it’s about sex.” — Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, during the Bill Clinton impeachment trial And when people tell you it’s not a clash of civilizations,…
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Israel News Sad-But-True Farce Behind Israel’s Funeral for Paris Kosher Market Terror Victims
The burial in Jerusalem of four French Jews murdered in last week’s terror attacks in Paris turned into an embarrassment when the victims’ families and the French Jewish community were asked to pay tens of thousands of shekels for the graves while the burial site itself was changed three times. Because the victims weren’t Israeli…
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