Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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The Schmooze Fran Drescher doesn’t mind being single because she has a ‘friend with benefits’
(JTA) — Fran Drescher, the star of the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny,” says she loves her gay former husband, but some of her needs are met by a “friend with benefits.” The twice-divorced Jewish actress spilt with Peter Marc Jacobson in 1999 after more than 20 years of marriage. Jacobson later came out as gay….
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Fast Forward New Jersey town gets first Orthodox cop
(JTA) — Lakewood Township in New Jersey is getting its first Orthodox Jewish police officer, local media reported. Michael Wolf was sworn in Wednesday in a ceremony with 12 other new police officers following a year-long training, Asbury Park Press reported. Lakewood Police Chief Greg Meyer said he hoped the hire would help strengthen community…
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Fast Forward Survey: 23% of French Jews say they were assaulted by anti-Semites
(JTA) — In a survey about anti-Semitism in France, nearly a quarter of 1,027 Jewish respondents said they had experienced a physical anti-Semitic assault. The results of the survey, carried out this year by the IFOP for the American Jewish Committee, were published Tuesday in Le Parisien. In addition to the 23 percent of respondents…
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Fast Forward Muslims chant ‘kill Jews’ outside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque
(JTA) — Hundreds of Muslims chanted about killing Jews outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Friday morning, prompting police to disperse the crowd. The chants began as worshippers were leaving the mosque following prayers atop the Temple Mount, Israel’s Channel 13 reported. No one was injured in clashes with police, who broke up the…
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Fast Forward Spotify to remove playlist titles about Jews and the Holocaust
(JTA) — The music streaming service Spotify said it would remove playlist titles deemed to contain anti-Semitic hate speech. A spokesperson for Spotify said this Thursday in a statement to the New York Post that the content in question violates company policy. The statement followed a report by The Times of Israel that found that…
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Fast Forward Netherlands rally protesting Soleimani killing features caricature blaming Jews for terrorism
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Participants at a protest rally in the Netherlands against the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani waved anti-Semitic posters, a local watchdog group told police. At the demonstration Tuesday in front of the American Embassy in Wassenaar near the Hague, two women were photographed holding up a poster titled “the makers of…
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Fast Forward Suspect in alleged Brooklyn anti-Semitic attack held on $10,000 bond
(JTA) — A suspect in an alleged anti-Semitic attack in New York City pleaded not guilty and was being held on $10,000 bond. Jasmine Lucas, 24, was charged Thursday in Brooklyn criminal court with second-degree robbery as a hate crime and second-degree assault, among other counts, for allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old Jewish man the previous…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: US slaying of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was ‘self defense’
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support for the U.S. slaying of the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Netanyahu spoke Friday about the American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, which operates a number of regional militias and is allied with terrorist groups targeting Israel, including Hezbollah and…
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