Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward Following Bat Sheva Marcus allegations, Orthodox feminist group will undergo an external review
Note: This story was updated on May 12 with a quote from Bat Sheva Marcus. (JTA) – An embattled Orthodox feminist group has commissioned an external review of its “workplace and board culture,” weeks after multiple former employees shared allegations of harassment against a prominent sex therapist who was the group’s former board chair. The…
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Fast Forward Larry Summers and Alan Dershowitz join over 100 Harvard faculty and alumni in denouncing student paper’s Israel boycott endorsement
(JTA) – The Harvard Crimson’s recent endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement has attracted far more wide-ranging attention than a typical student paper’s editorial page, as faculty and alumni of the Ivy League institution have lined up to denounce the student paper’s op-ed and condemn the shift in Israel discussion on college campuses. In…
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Fast Forward After months of delays, Israel permits American basketball player to live in the country — but only temporarily
(JTA) – Israel has granted a temporary residency to American basketball player Jared Armstrong, ending for now a months-long saga of multiple rejections, accusations of racism and petitions by influential people including an American investor and a rabbi with close ties to President Joe Biden. Israel’s Interior Ministry, which handles citizenship applications, told the Jewish…
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Fast Forward Michigan Republican who shared antisemitic posts and rape comments loses safe election seat
(JTA) – During his campaign for a state House seat, Michigan Republican nominee Robert “RJ” Regan had told local outlets that, “My words aren’t as smooth and polished as the politicians are because I’m not a politician.” And there were many ways Regan wasn’t like other politicians. For one, most politicians’ public Facebook pages aren’t…
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Fast Forward At least 3 killed in terrorist attack in Israeli city of Elad
(JTA) – Two unidentified men attacked passersby in the central Israeli city of Elad on Thursday, killing three people and injuring up to nine others, according to local media reports. Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom reported the fatalities. At least one of the wounded was in critical condition. One of the men had been…
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Fast Forward Bennett says Putin apologized for his deputy’s remarks on Nazis
(JTA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized Thursday to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for comments Putin’s foreign minister made comparing Ukraine’s Jewish president to Adolf Hitler, according to Bennett’s office’s account of a phone call between the two leaders. The purported apology came four days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that it…
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Fast Forward A ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ writer falsely claimed to have lost a friend in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting
(JTA) – Elisabeth Finch claimed to have survived a rare and fatal form of cancer. She claimed to have had a life-threatening abortion and a kidney transplant from Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin. She claimed to have been stalked by an abusive, suicidal brother. Over nearly a decade of writing and producing for the long-running ABC…
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Film & TV In PBS’ gripping series ‘Ridley Road,’ a Jewish woman infiltrates a group of British neo-Nazis
(JTA) – It sounds like it could be the story of Purim: A Jewish woman uses her sex appeal to enter the upper reaches of a group whose members are hell-bent on destroying the Jews. But instead of Esther with King Ahasuerus, imagine her becoming romantically involved with Haman himself — and instead of the…
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