Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Easily Wins Likud Party Primary To Remain Prime Minister Candidate
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won his party’s leadership primary with 71.5 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll. A tweet by Direct Polls, an Israeli firm, showed challenger Gideon Saar with 28.5 percent.The poll had a margin of error of 3.2 percent, and turnout for the primary stood at…
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Fast Forward Beverly Hills Persian Synagogue Vandalized On Shabbat, Torahs Damaged
(JTA) — A synagogue in Beverly Hills was vandalized in what police are investigating as a hate crime. At approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a statement from the Beverly Hills Police Department, a suspect described as a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue, a Persian Jewish congregation, and vandalized the sanctuary. Photos of the…
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Breaking News Jewish Man Stabbed Repeatedly Outside New York Synagogue
This is a developing story. NEW YORK (JTA) — An Orthodox man was stabbed multiple times on his walk to synagogue for morning prayers. The man was approaching the synagogue, Toshnad Heichel Torah Utfila in Spring Valley, New York, when at least one man got out of a car, began beating him and stabbed him….
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Fast Forward One In 10 Christians Say Their Pastors Said Negative Things About Jews
(JTA) — Thirty-nine percent of American Christians who attend church have heard their clergy speak out about Jews, and 9 percent have heard them say something negative. That’s according to a new study published Friday by the Pew Research Center on religion and public life. The survey found that American Jews were ambivalent toward the…
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Fast Forward Israelis Are Using Photos Of Greta Thunberg To Shame Each Other Over Plastic Utensils
(JTA) — Israelis who are concerned about a warming climate have a new tactic: using cut-out photos of the prominent teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to shame their colleagues for using plasticware. In workplaces across Tel Aviv, people are placing pictures of Thunberg, 16, in their kitchen areas next to disposable forks, knives and plates,…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Student Walks Out On Holocaust Survivor For Not Condemning Israel
(JTA) — A Palestinian student at Benedictine University called on a Holocaust survivor to condemn the establishment of Israel, and then walked out on his speech after he did not do so. Following a speech last week by Professor Harold Kasimow, who survived the Holocaust as a child, Benedictine senior Ayah Ali asked a question…
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Fast Forward ICE Officer Who Drove Truck Into Jewish Protesters Won’t Be Charged
(JTA) — A grand jury declined to indict a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who drove his truck into a row of Jewish protesters at an ICE detention center. Capt. Thomas Woodworth resigned his position days after the August incident at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, where protesters were…
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Fast Forward Most Media Coverage Of Anti-Semitism Focuses On The Left, Study Finds
(JTA) — The majority of news coverage of anti-Semitism during the past year has spotlighted left-wing rhetoric as opposed to right-wing actions, according to a survey by Media Matters. The study found that 56 percent of news coverage of anti-Semitism in the 11 months following the October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting focused on anti-Semitism coming…
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