Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Zach Banner, Alysha Clark, Josh Bell to headline ‘Athletes against Antisemitism’ event
(JTA) — Zach Banner, Alysha Clark and Josh Bell will be among the professional athletes to headline an event discussing activism against anti-Semitism and how athletes can contribute to the effort. Banner, an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers, spoke out against anti-Semitism following anti-Semitic social media posts by DeSean Jackson, a wide receiver for…
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Fast Forward Republican official deletes comment suggesting Trump’s trial was less fair than Nazi show trials
(JTA) — A member of the Republican National Committee from Virginia has deleted a Facebook comment apparently suggesting that Nazi show trials were fairer than the recent Senate trial of former President Donald Trump. A top Republican Jewish leader called the comment “outrageous and indefensible” before Patricia Bast Lyman, the Republican committeewoman, apologized and said…
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News The controversy over California’s ethnic studies curriculum, explained
(JTA) — How and where do Jews fit into America’s minority communities? That’s the question at the center of a debate that has raged for more than a year over new school curriculum guides that are being adopted in California. Lawmakers there required the creation of an ethnic studies curriculum, and the effort to fulfill…
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Fast Forward Jewish groups condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene. Her response: ‘I will never back down.’
(JTA) — Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman who has advanced a range of dangerous conspiracy theories, including some that are explicitly antisemitic, is refusing to step down or even apologize, despite increasingly fierce criticism from Jewish groups and others. Among Greene’s critics are right-wing and centrist Jewish groups that do not frequently criticize Republican…
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Fast Forward Jewish space lasers? GOP congresswoman blamed forest fire on secret laser beams from ‘Rothschild Inc’
(JTA) — Among the many posts being unearthed amid renewed scrutiny of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s social media history is one in which the new congresswoman implicated “Rothschild Inc” in connection with a deadly forest fire that, she wrote, was started using laser beams from space. Greene, a freshman Republican from Georgia who made waves during…
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Fast Forward 7 Israeli officers injured in clashes with protesters over COVID-19 restrictions
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Seven Israeli police officers were injured in clashes with Orthodox protesters over COVID-19 restrictions, the latest in a series of violent conflicts with law enforcement in Israel’s Orthodox communities. Following the unrest Thursday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a crackdown on violations of the country’s COVID-19 lockdown. Netanyahu’s opponents have…
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News AEPi executive steps down from pro-Trump group following backlash from fraternity alumni
(JTA) — An AEPi executive is leaving his position with a group whose political arm took part in the Jan. 6 pro-Donald Trump rally in Washington. Andrew Borans, the CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, served on the advisory council of Turning Point USA, a pro-Donald Trump organization whose political arm participated in the…
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Fast Forward Nancy Pelosi quoted a famous Israeli poem in her speech calling on Republicans to support the 25th Amendment
(JTA) — To close out her speech asking Vice President Mike Pence to take the unprecedented step of removing President Donald Trump from power, Nancy Pelosi could have stuck with a quote from America’s rich literary tradition. Instead, the speaker of the US House of Representatives turned to a poem that has become a cornerstone…
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