Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Facing Jewish Protest, ICE Detention Center Moves Public Meeting To Shabbat
(JTA) — The ICE detention center in Rhode Island where a guard drove his truck into Jewish protesters postponed a public board meeting in the face of a planned Jewish protest. The meeting has been rescheduled to start at 6 p.m. Friday, less than an hour before the start of the Jewish Sabbath. Last month,…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Sanders Says Israel Shouldn’t Take U.S. Aid If It Bans Omar And Tlaib
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested that Israel should not receive foreign aid from the United States if it stands by its decision to deny entry to Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday, the Democratic presidential candidate was responding to Israel’s decision that day to bar entry to Omar and…
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Fast Forward ICE Officer Who Drove His Truck Into Row Of Jewish Protesters Resigns
(JTA) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who drove his pickup truck into a row of Jewish protesters at a detention facility in Rhode Island has resigned from his position. On Wednesday, Captain Thomas Woodworth drove into a row of protesters who were sitting on the ground and blocking the entrance to the Donald…
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Fast Forward ICE Officer Who Drove Into Jewish Protesters Placed On Leave
(JTA) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who drove a pickup truck into a row of Jewish protesters in Rhode Island has been placed on leave, and police have announced that they will investigate the incident. Five of the protesters were hospitalized, according to Tal Frieden, an organizer of the protest. The incident occurred…
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Fast Forward Truck Drives Into Jewish Protestors At ICE Detention Center
(JTA) — A pickup truck drove into a row of Jewish protestors demonstrating at the street entrance to an ICE detention center in Rhode Island on Wednesday night. It appears no one was seriously injured. Protesters were then pepper-sprayed, according to people present at the protest. Hundreds of Jewish protestors had gathered at the Donald…
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Fast Forward 40 Jews Arrested In New York City During ICE Protest On Tisha B’Av
NEW YORK (JTA) — Forty Jews were arrested at a New York City protest against Amazon’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sunday’s protest was one of more than 50 similar Jewish demonstrations that were held across the country to mark Tisha b’Av, the traditional Jewish day of mourning, in opposition to U.S. immigration policy….
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News AOC Has A Lot To Say About Israel, Antisemitism And Her Possible Sephardic Roots
(JTA) — Despite the president calling her an anti-Israel Jew-hater, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t actually said a ton about Israel and the Jews. Until now, that is. In a lengthy radio interview Tuesday, AOC expounded on a huge range of Jewish topics — from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to anti-Semitism to Jewish social justice activism to…
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Fast Forward Developer Buys 108-Year-Old Synagogue, Will Turn It Into College Student Housing
(JTA) — Central New York’s oldest synagogue is being redeveloped as student housing for Syracuse University. Temple Concord, also known as the Temple Society of Concord, lays claim to being the ninth-oldest congregation in the United States. It sold its building for $9 million to Landmark Properties, a developer of luxury student apartments, according to…
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