Daniella Cheslow
By Daniella Cheslow
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Fast Forward Canadian Woodsman Offers To Circumcise Local Boy
A Canadian undertaker living in the woods wrote to a local mom and offered to circumcise her son – but he should have had more foresight. Josh Chubbs, 23, is charged with performing and promoting unlicensed medical practice, according to CBC News. The mother said Chubbs was an acquaintance, according to CBC, which did not…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Former Sanders Staffer Simone Zimmerman “Outraged” At Israel Travel Ban
Simone Zimmerman, briefly the Jewish outreach coordinator to Bernie Sanders, blasted Israel’s new travel ban targeting supporters of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement. “I’m outraged there’s a chance I might not be allowed into this country,” Zimmerman said in a video by Israeli daily Haaretz. It has been shared 1,000 times. Zimmerman, an activist…
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Fast Forward FBI Warns Investors About Fraudulent, Lucrative Israeli Online Trading Business
The FBI is singling out a thriving business in Israel — two firms alone do $8 billion in business annually— that’s also ripe for fraud. Headlining the bureau’s website this week is an advisory against binary options trading, in which customers buy and sell shares of stocks — but many of the 100 companies operating…
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Fast Forward Do American Journalists Envy Their Israeli Colleagues?
[ White House press room policy seems engineered to belittle reporters and set them against each other “like a bunch of braying jackals,” according to a New Yorker report, in which President Donald Trump’s treatment of an Israeli reporter stood out as a moment of sanity in a circus. Marantz detailed White House press secretary…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Splashed Across Twitter By Hackers
Pro-Turkish government hackers broke into prominent Twitter accounts Wednesday and used them to fire off swastikas in a campaign to smear Germany and Holland. Amnesty International, BBC North America and Justin Bieber’s Japan account were among the slew of hacked users. The British magazine the New Statesman explained that the hacking relates to Turkey’s recent…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Animal Liberationists’ Protest Kosher Slaughter At Urban Farm — Again
Activists calling themselves “Jewish Animal Liberationists” wore funereal clothes and infiltrated a Purim party at a Berkeley Jewish farm to protest their killing of chickens. “We are concerned about the violence against animals on this farm,” said Zach Groff, as he held a sign reading “I wanted to live,” in Hebrew. The Saturday demonstration was…
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Fast Forward Ben Shapiro — And David Duke — Defend Steve King’s ‘Babies’ Comment
Conservative Jewish commentator and former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro defended Iowa Congressman Steve King Monday after he tweeted a xenophobic comment embraced by white supremacists. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) wrote Sunday, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with…
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Fast Forward Shalom Lamm Voter Fraud Case Continues Without Preet Bharara
Correction Appended The case of Jewish real estate developers charged with voter fraud in the Catskills will continue through the federal court system this week, a legacy of dismissed U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Shalom Lamm and co-conspirators Kenneth Nakdimen and Volvy Smilowitz are accused of federal voter fraud conspiracy in a bid to elect public…
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