Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Annual Jewish Event In Catskills Canceled For Lack Of Permits
An annual Jewish event in the Catskill Mountains was shut down Friday morning, after years of illegal operation, The Yeshiva World reported. The New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division made the decision to cancel the event June 21. Tickets were still being sold as early at 9 a.m. Friday. Deputies from the Sullivan County…
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Fast Forward Father Killed While Camping With Daughters Was Shot In Head, Autopsy Finds
A father killed while camping with his two young daughters in California was shot once in the head, a coroner’s office official said Wednesday, citing an autopsy. Tristan Beaudette’s death, at the end of June, was ruled a homicide, CNN reported. The 35-year-old from Irvine, California, had been camping with his 2- and 4-year-old daughters…
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Fast Forward Krav Maga Keeps PayPal CEO ‘Cool, Calm And Collected’
Listed among PayPal CEO Dan Schulman’s extensive resume is his affinity for Krav Maga, a military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces. Schulman said in an interview with the New York Times, that when he spent time in Israel as a teenager, he took Youth Military Training. “I’ve been doing Krav…
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Fast Forward WATCH: ‘Acts Of Anti-Semitism Must End,’ Says Pence
Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Ministerial To Advance Religious Freedom on Thursday, where he defended religious freedom, expressing that “acts of violence and hatred and anti-Semitism must end.” At the first-ever event, held at the State Department, Pence gave examples of the frequency in which Jews are attacked. “Just 70 years after the Holocaust,…
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Fast Forward Christian Group Sent GOP Congressman To Romania To Meet With Holocaust Denier
The Christian group that runs the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. sponsored a trip to Romania for a member of Congress to meet with a local political leader accused of anti-Semitism, the left-wing news outlet TYT Network reported Wednesday. Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama met with Marian Munteanu on two separate occasions…
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Fast Forward U.N. Relief Agency Lays Off Staff In Gaza And West Bank After Trump Cuts Aid
The United Nations said Wednesday it had been forced to lay off more than 250 Palestinian employees in Gaza and the West Bank and cut services after the United States slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, the Washington Post reported. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which provides assistance for Palestinian refugees, said…
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Fast Forward Zuckerberg Ties Facebook Stock Plunge To Increased Security Measures
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared in a post Wednesday that the social media giant continues to invest heavily in safety and security, and that that significantly impacts profitability. The social media giant lost more than $125 billion in value after the markets closed, with shares plummeting more than 20%, following an earnings report that missed…
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Fast Forward Jared And Ivanka Intend To Outlast The Rest Of The White House Staff
Friends of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump feel strongly that the couple is preparing to stay in D.C. as long as the president does, outlasting nearly everyone in the West Wing, Axios reported. Many of the couple’s internal opponents have either been fired, such as Steve Bannon and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, or…
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