Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Partying, Weed and Tequila Part Of Adam Neumann’s We Co. Culture
We Co. CEO Adam Neumann’s work culture often valued partying, and some of his practices are being seen as liabilities, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company, formerly called WeWork, was co-founded in 2010 by Neumann and Miguel McKelvey, and from the beginning, the company’s practices strayed from the traditional. The Journal article listed a…
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Fast Forward Sarsour, Other Leaders Accused Of Anti-Semitism Leave Women’s March
The Women’s March is moving on from three of its original four co-chairs, whose struggles to respond to anti-Semitism accusations undercut the movement they led, The Washington Post reported Monday. Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour will no longer sit on the board of the Women’s March. They stepped down July 15, but the…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Who Wore Swastika Underwear Found Guilty Of Terror Plot
An English neo-Nazi who collected Adolf Hitler and Klu Klux Klan memorabilia was found guilty of anti-terror charges, The Mirror reported. Nathan Worrell was described as a “bit of a weirdo” by his neighbors, who claimed they weren’t aware of his extremist views. His home was converted into a Nazi-inspired shrine, where he even had…
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Fast Forward Austrian Hotel Sues Tourist Who Complained About Their Nazi Portraits
An Austrian hotel sued a German traveler who complained online about finding a portrait of a Nazi in the lobby, The Guardian reported. A man and his wife checked into a four-star hotel in the Tyrolean Alps in August and immediately noticed two unsettling framed photos: one of a young man wearing a uniform with…
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Fast Forward Labor Department Official Back At Work After Sarcastic ‘Anti-Semitism’ Kerfuffle
Department of Labor official Leif Olson was reinstated following his resignation after a Bloomberg Law article accused him of making anti-Semitic comments, which he claimed were in fact sarcastic mockeries of anti-Semites, Fox News reported. Critics on the right and left claimed that Bloomberg Law had misinterpreted Olson’s comments. Olson resigned days before the story…
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Fast Forward Canadian Orthodox Priest Fired For Honoring Israel In Sermon
A Christian Orthodox priest in Nova Scotia, Canada was forced to retire after honoring Judaism and Israel in his sermon, The Canadian Jewish News reported. Vladimir Tobin, the head priest of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Church in Halifax, was told last month in a letter from the archbishop that he must leave the church following the…
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Fast Forward 86-Year-Old Rabbi Arrested Protesting ICE
Rabbi Arthur Waskow was arrested on Wednesday for blocking the entrance to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Philadelphia in protest of President Trump’s border policies. Waskow, one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, was demonstrating with the group ElderWitness and Friends, Public News Service reported. Around 100 people were present at…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Stickers Cover College Campus On First Day Of School
The new school year got off to a rocky start at Chapman University in southern California, where hundreds of stickers publicizing a white supremacist group were posted around campus. The stickers, found Thursday morning, appeared to be from Patriot Front, the Orange County Register reported. Featuring a map of the United States and the words…
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