Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Israel-boycott referendum is dead after DSA declines to defend it in court
The local federation and multiple rabbis had filed legal challenges to the referendum
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Jewish groups hope to quash a referendum that would force the city to boycott Israel
Though unlikely to make the ballot, the referendum has prompted a top staffer in the mayor’s office who supported it to resign
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Politics The ‘Gestapo Game’ at the high school where Tim Walz worked was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject
“Trying to simulate the conditions that victims of the Holocaust experienced was absurd,” Walz wrote in his thesis
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Fast Forward A Jewish bagel shop in Detroit upends after staff walk out protesting ‘Zionist’ new owner
Philip Kafka, a developer who has earned praise and derision for his redevelopment projects, took over the Detroit Institute of Bagels from its original Jewish owner
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Politics VP nominee Tim Walz learned how to be a politician at a progressive boot camp founded by Jews
Wellstone Action, named for late Minnesota Jewish Sen. Paul Wellstone, helped shape the Minnesota governor
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Fast Forward Trump says Kanye West ‘has a good heart’ in interview with Jewish streaming star Adin Ross
Ross, a South Florida native and a nexus of the growing young, online right, said previously that he wouldn’t allow Ye to denigrate Jews on his show
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Fast Forward Norwegian street artist defends mural of Anne Frank in a keffiyeh
The European Jewish Congress had denounced the mural, meant as a statement against the Gaza war, as “a gross distortion of history.”
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Fast Forward Self-described Nazi who threatened ADL offices sentenced to 2 years in prison
The defendant had left antisemitic voicemails to multiple ADL offices across the country
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