Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward The Sacklers, Jewish family behind OxyContin, will pay $6 billion in deal that shields them from lawsuits
Many institutions dropped the Sackler name as lawsuits over the opioid epidemic piled up, but Tel Aviv University has resisted pressure to do so
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Fast Forward Holocaust drama ‘The Zone of Interest’ wins runner-up prize at Cannes Film Festival
The film premiered as Martin Amis, the author of its source material, died at 73
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Fast Forward The Florida mom who got Amanda Gorman’s poem restricted says she’s sorry for promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The activist apologized to JTA and to “the Jewish community” for sharing the antisemitic forgery on her Facebook page
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Fast Forward As author Martin Amis died, a movie of his Holocaust novel ‘Zone of Interest’ wowed at Cannes
Amis was also known for 'Time’s Arrow,' a novel of the Holocaust told in reverse
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Fast Forward Mayor of Missouri town apologizes after saying trash collectors are ‘not trying to Jew anybody’
The town of Odessa had removed video of the public meeting from social media
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Fast Forward Jewish middle school teacher in Wisconsin arrested for threatening students over swastika drawings
The seventh-grade math teacher reportedly told students he owned 17 guns and was 'not afraid to use them'
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Fast Forward Adidas says it will sell off Yeezy shoes and donate proceeds to those ‘hurt by Kanye’s statements’
The company had been stuck with unsold inventory since cutting ties with Kanye West over his antisemitic comment
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Fast Forward Florida rejects Holocaust education textbooks in clampdown on ‘woke’ instruction
The state’s education department also forced another textbook to remove a reference to 'social justice' in the Hebrew Bible.
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