Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Iran’s judo team suspended from international matches until 2023 for refusing to face Israeli opponents
(JTA) — The Iranian national judo team was suspended from international competition until September 2023 for forfeiting matches against Israeli opponents due to a boycott. The decision extends an ongoing suspension of the Iran Judo Federation that began in 2019, according to a statement from the International Judo Federation. In March, the international group said…
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Fast Forward Baptist-affiliated Oregon university fires Jewish tenured professor who alleged antisemitism
(JTA) — Linfield University has fired a Jewish professor who accused the school’s president of making antisemitic remarks. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured professor who taught English literature at the small Oregon university, has accused Linfield President Miles K. Davis of making multiple antisemitic remarks in recent years. The antisemitism, he said, was partly a backlash…
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Fast Forward For the first time, a woman will lead an Israeli Orthodox synagogue
(JTA) — A woman will be the spiritual leader of an Israeli Orthodox synagogue for the first time. Shirat Hatamar, a congregation in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, elected Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis, 40, as spiritual leader on Monday with the support of 83% of its membership. “I truly hold in my heart all…
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News In Oregon, a small Christian university with few Jews grapples with accusations of antisemitism
(JTA) — When the new president of his small Oregon university made a remark about Jewish noses, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner was unnerved. But Pollack-Pelzner, a professor at the school, was willing to assume that the president had merely made a tactless mistake. “At the time, I thought this is messed up,” he said of the 2018…
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Fast Forward Senate passes legislation to improve hate crime reporting
(JTA) — The Senate passed a bill to help law enforcement respond to hate crimes and report them to the federal government, alongside legislation that specifically combats anti-Asian hate crimes. As anti-Semitism has risen in recent years, national Jewish organizations have urged the government to improve the hate crime reporting process. Passed Thursday by an…
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Fast Forward Windows broken at four synagogues in Bronx Jewish neighborhood
NEW YORK (JTA) — Four synagogues in the New York City neighborhood of Riverdale were vandalized as rocks were hurled through their windows and glass doors. The vandalism in the Bronx neighborhood, which has a large Jewish population, occurred overnight on Saturday. The vandalized synagogues are the Riverdale Jewish Center, Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of…
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News Conservatives are more likely than liberals to hold antisemitic views, survey finds
(JTA) — Is anti-Semitism more of a problem on the left or the right? Should Jews concentrate their energy on combating the far right? Or should they focus on fighting anti-Israel bias on campus? How do questions of race relations in the United States play into anti-Jewish bigotry? As anti-Semitism has risen in the United…
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Fast Forward Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey accused of rape
(JTA) — Blake Bailey, the author of a bestselling biography of Philip Roth, has been accused of grooming former middle-school students for sex, with one woman accusing him of rape. Bailey acknowledged that he had sex with former students but has denied doing anything illegal. In the wake of the allegations, which were reported Tuesday…
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