Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward A Proud Boys-affiliated rabbi in Florida is offering to endorse COVID-19 vaccine exemption requests
(JTA) — Who are the rabbis writing religious exemption letters for Jews (and others) who oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates? One answer came this week when a New York City teacher said she’d gotten a letter from a rabbi who was penalized by Chabad for his anti-vaccination rhetoric. Another answer came Thursday in a Miami New…
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Fast Forward Poway synagogue shooter gets life without parole in state court sentencing
(JTA) — The man who opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, in 2019 will spend the rest of his life in prison. The shooter, who attacked the Chabad of Poway with an automatic rifle on the last day of Passover, killed one person, Lori Gilbert Kaye, and injured three, including the synagogue rabbi…
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Fast Forward Anchorage mayor defends anti-maskers who wore yellow Stars of David in protest – then apologizes
(JTA) — The mayor of Alaska’s largest city defended anti-mask protesters who wore yellow Stars of David in reference to the Holocaust, calling their use of the Nazi-era symbol a “credit” to the Jewish people. Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson opposes both mask and vaccine mandates, but as as Alaska experiences a severe COVID-19 outbreak, the…
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Fast Forward After a fight, Seattle City Council won’t bar police from training with Israeli forces
(JTA) — In a contentious meeting last week, the Seattle City Council narrowly voted down legislation that would have prohibited the city’s police department from conducting training with Israeli forces. The bill, which was defeated by a vote of 5-4 at the council’s meeting on Sept. 20, was conceived following the May conflict between Israel…
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Fast Forward The last Jew of Afghanistan has reportedly divorced his wife and wants to go to Queens
(JTA) — Zebulon Simantov, who was the last Jew living in Afghanistan, granted his wife a Jewish ritual divorce after refusing to do so for decades, according to reports. He left Afghanistan earlier this month, following the Taliban’s takeover of the country, after at first rebuffing efforts to get him out. He now wants to…
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Fast Forward Congressman calls the ADL ‘racist’ after it called for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson
Matt Gaetz has, like Carlson, appeared to endorse the conspiracy theory known as the 'Great Replacement'
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Fast Forward 97-year-old former member of Nazi death squad dies at home in Canada
(JTA) — A translator for a Nazi death squad died at home in Ontario at the age of 97, ending a decades-long effort to deport him from Canada for his role in the murders of tens of thousands of Jews. Helmut Oberlander, who was born in Ukraine in 1924, had long said that he was…
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Fast Forward Survey of Jewish fraternity and sorority finds most respondents experienced antisemitism on campus
(JTA) — A survey of members of AEPi and AEPhi, the most prominent national Jewish fraternity and sorority, found that large numbers of respondents have experienced antisemitism on campus. The survey also found that about half of respondents have felt the need to hide their Jewish identity on campus or in virtual campus settings. A…
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