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Fast Forward Delta Israel Flights Hit by Bomb Scares at John F. Kennedy Airport
Two Delta Air Lines flights arriving at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, one continuing to and one arriving from Tel Aviv, were evacuated following a bomb threat. An anonymous caller to another unnamed airline reported Monday evening that a pipe bomb had been placed aboard Delta’s flight 468, according to reports. The airline…
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Fast Forward ‘Facebuker Rebbe’ Dovid Winiarz Dies in Car Crash on Icy Sunday Morning
Rabbi Dovid Winiarz, the self-proclaimed “Facebuker Rebbe” for his outreach efforts over Facebook, was killed in a car accident on an icy road in Maryland. Winiarz, 49, of New York, was a passenger on Sunday morning in a vehicle that lost control in the icy conditions and struck another car. He was on his way…
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Fast Forward $1B New York Terror Trial Starts for Palestinians
A U.S. trial to decide whether the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority should pay up to $1 billion for several terror attacks in Israel began on Tuesday. A lawyer for victims called the defendants’ alleged involvement “standard operating procedure” for the Palestinan groups and a defense lawyer countered by blaming others for the “horrific”…
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Fast Forward Stephen Arnoff Named Head of JCC Umbrella Group
Stephen Hazan Arnoff has been named the new chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Center Association. Arnoff succeeds Alan Finkelstein, who announced last year he would retire from the position after more than two decades. Arnoff will take up the position in February. The Jewish Community Center Association board of directors unanimously approved the…
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Fast Forward Russ and Daughters Honored by New York State Senate
The iconic Jewish appetizing shop Russ and Daughters was honored with a resolution marking its 100th anniversary by the New York State Senate. The resolution, which was drafted in June 2014, was presented to the Russ and Daughters staff Wednesday night by New York State Senator Daniel Squadron. “Russ and Daughters first opened in 1914,”…
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News Herpes Illnesses From Circumcision Rite Rise But Mayor Bill De Blasio Stays Silent
When Bill de Blasio was running for New York City mayor in May 2013, he said that he would “come in day one to City Hall with a new policy” to protect babies from contracting herpes during a controversial circumcision rite while respecting “religious tradition.” Last January, during his first month in office, Mayor de…
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Fast Forward Appeals Court Upholds New York Child Vaccination Law
New York state’s requirement that children be vaccinated in order to attend public school does not violate parents’ religious rights under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan also ruled that students who receive religious exemptions from the vaccination law…
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Fast Forward Etan Patz ‘Killer’ Goes on Trial — Will Missing SoHo Boy Get Justice?
A former deli worker goes on trial on Monday for the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance more than three decades ago while walking to a school bus stop galvanized the nation’s attention to the issue of missing children. Pedro Hernandez, 53, who confessed to the crime in 2012, is charged in state Supreme…
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