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Fast Forward Canada Ex-Lawmaker Finds Swastika Carved in Snow
(JTA) — A former Canadian politician reported a swastika carved in the snow near her home in St. Vital, Manitoba. Chris Melnick, who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly, said she came upon the hate symbol last Thursday while walking her dog, CBC Radio Canada reported Tuesday. Underneath the symbol were the words “F–…
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Breaking News Mayer Abramowitz, Rabbi to Miami’s Cuban Exiles, Dies at 97
(JTA) — Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz, who opened the doors of his Miami Beach synagogue to waves of Cuban exiles beginning in the early 1960s, died Thursday at his home in Miami Beach. He was 97. Abramowitz, longtime leader of Temple Menorah, ministered to hundreds of young Jews who arrived in the United States as part…
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Breaking News Israel’s i24News To Launch U.S. channel
(JTA) — i24News, an Israeli international 24-hour news and current affairs television channel, will launch a U.S. news channel with headquarters in New York City’s Time Square and a separate bureau in Washington D.C. The launch was announced on Thursday. The i24 global news headquarters is located in Jaffa Port near Tel Aviv, with three…
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Breaking News ZOA Criticizes Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Statement
(JTA) — The Zionist Organization of America expressed its “chagrin and deep pain” that a statement by the Trump administration marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day did not mention the Jewish victims of the Nazis. In a news release Sunday evening, Morton A. Klein, national president of the ZOA, praised President Donald Trump as a “great friend…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Prays for Alberto Nisman’s Memory
(JTA) — Pope Francis told the former wife of the late Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman that he prays for Nisman’s memory and their two daughters. Sandra Arroyo Salgado, a federal judge in Argentina, asked the pope during their brief audience Wednesday to “keep praying to find the truth” of Nisman’s still-mysterious death. Salgado told Argentine…
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Breaking News At Alberto Nisman Tributes, Hope That Death Mystery Will Be Solved
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Two years after the still mysterious death of AMIA Jewish Center bombing prosecutor Alberto Nisman the organizers of tributes to his memory appear hopeful that the circumstances of his death will be clarified. Tributes were held both in Argentina and Israel on Wednesday. “The is a glimmer of light at the…
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Breaking News Probe Continues 2 Years After Mystery Death of Argentina Prosecutor Alberto Nisman
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The late special prosecutor into the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center, Alberto Nisman, will be remembered both in Argentina and Israel on the second anniversary of his still-mysterious death, as the investigation into whether it was a murder or suicide continues. Federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, who is investigating the cause…
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Breaking News AMIA Bombing Trial May Reopen Now Victims’ Fathers Are Plaintiffs
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The fathers of two AMIA Jewish center bombing victims have been named as plaintiffs in a case against former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, which could reopen the investigation of the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman into a cover-up of Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing. Nisman was found dead on…
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