Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward ‘Relieved but disappointed’: How America’s Jewish refugee aid agency is doing 3 months after Trump
(JTA) — Three weeks after taking office, Joe Biden announced that he would quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States. For HIAS, it seemed like an answered prayer, as the Jewish refugee aid agency had endured a rough four years under Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. HIAS, which once focused on resettling refugees,…
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Fast Forward Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme devastated the Jewish world, dies in prison at 82
(JTA) — Bernie Madoff, the fraudster who ran a $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme ensnaring thousands of investors, including a long list of Jewish organizations and families, has died at 82. The Associated Press reported Madoff’s death Wednesday at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina. Madoff was known as a selective money manager who made…
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Fast Forward Israel to allow vaccinated tour groups starting in May
(JTA) — Israel will be reopening its gates to fully vaccinated tour groups on May 23. The Jewish state hopes to allow individual vaccinated tourists by early July, a source in its Tourism Ministry told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Israel has vaccinated most of its own population, and largely reopened public and recreational spaces, while…
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Fast Forward Fox News to ADL: We won’t fire Tucker Carlson for endorsing a white supremacist theory
Carlson‘s promotion of the antisemitic ’replacement’ conspiracy theory drew the ADL’s ire
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Fast Forward Israeli police beat up and kneel on the face of left-wing Jewish lawmaker
(JTA) — Israeli police beat up a left-wing member of parliament and one officer knelt on his face, drawing outcry from across the political spectrum. Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish member of the Arab-Israeli Joint List party in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, was at a protest against evictions in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh…
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Fast Forward ADL chief calls for Tucker Carlson’s ouster after Fox News host endorses white supremacist conspiracy theory
Carlson has said Democrats are coordinating a ‘replacement’ of current U.S. voters
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News Who is Mansour Abbas, the Arab-Israeli who could hold the key to Israel’s next government?
(JTA) — Following yet another Israeli election, voters are getting to know an unlikely kingmaker: Mansour Abbas, an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who might be the one to break Israel’s two-year political stalemate. Abbas, head of the United Arab List political party, is not the kind of politician who usually wields power in the Jewish state. He’s…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu leads narrowly in Israeli election exit polls
(JTA) — Preliminary exit polls from Israel’s election show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a good chance of being narrowly reelected. Israeli exit polls, however, have historically been unreliable, and this year they don’t account for a significant percentage of votes cast. Due to COVID, the final results might not be published until Monday. Especially…
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