Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward New Hampshire City Won’t Display Menorah In Park For Fear Of Vandalism
Officials in a New Hampshire city will not allow a 10-foot menorah to be displayed next to a decorated Christmas tree at a local park, the Associated Press reported. Officials in Durham denied the request of UNH & Seacoast Chabad Jewish Center to place the menorah next to the tree out of concern of vandalism,…
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Fast Forward Trump Ally Says George Soros Is Not Really Jewish Because He Criticizes Israel
Where to start with Rep. Louie Gohmert? The Trump-loving congressman went on Fox News to compare how the Chinese government oppresses its citizens to Jewish billionaire George Soros and “the damage he inflicted on Israel.” In a clip shared to Twitter, the Texas congressman talks to host Stuart Varney about the accuracy of George Orwell’s…
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Fast Forward Monica Lewinsky Opens Up About Rising Above Her Big ‘Mistake’
Monica Lewinsky opened up in a speech Wednesday about recovering from her “mistake,” referring to her affair with former President Bill Clinton. Lewinsky spoke to a crowd of celebrities at The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Women in Entertainment conference, but her message was geared toward a group of teenagers who were there as part of the…
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Fast Forward George Soros-Founded University Kicked Out Of Hungary By Government
The university founded and funded by Jewish billionaire George Soros is being forced out of Hungary by the far-right government, Forbes reported. It will move its programs to Vienna. Central European University was founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union to promote principles of democracy and free society. It is being kicked off of…
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Fast Forward Kids Write KKK-Themed Christmas Carol About ‘Killing Blacks’ For Homework
Students in a New Hampshire high school sang a KKK-themed Christmas carol for what was supposedly a school assignment, The Portsmouth Herald reported. Students in a 11th-grade American History class at Dover High School were instructed to write a song from what they learned from the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, Superintendent William Harbron confirmed to…
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Forward 50 2018 Bradd Boxman
Calm Amid The Storm Of The Parkland Shooting Running for their lives on February 14, many of the Jewish students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School made their way to Congregation Kol Tikvah. It was Rabbi Bradd Boxman’s day off when he got a call saying that a gunman was loose in Parkland, Florida, in…
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Fast Forward Trump: Michael Cohen Very Guilty, But All Things Are ‘Unrelated’ To Me
President Trump called for Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, to “serve a full and complete sentence,” Talking Points Memo reported Monday. The president listed on Twitter the crimes that Cohen has pleaded guilty to, scoffing at his audacity to ask for a shorter prison sentence. He also claims the crimes were “unrelated to Trump,” despite…
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Forward 50 2018 Dasi Fruchter
A New Voice Within The Orthodox Clergy Growing up, Rabbanit Hadas “Dasi” Fruchter often said she wanted to marry a rabbi. Her dream was to become a Jewish leader and make a home like that of her parents, or Abraham and Sarah — “open on all four sides,” deeply caring and rooted in tradition. In…
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