Daniella Cheslow
By Daniella Cheslow
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Fast Forward KKK Banner Rises Over ‘Sweet’ Georgia Town
With the rise in American hate groups, the Washington Post reports on one Georgia town’s struggle with a massive Ku Klux Klan banner that appeared on the side of a building on Main Street one morning last month. Dahlonega, a charming former gold mining spot an hour north of Atlanta, rallied against the sign, the…
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News How Do You Tell Your Tot About A Bomb Threat?
Dozens of police officers and state troopers stood near a giant dreidel in Brooklyn after the Jewish Children’s Museum received an anonymous e-mail warning of three pipe bombs inside the building. Among the onlookers on Eastern Parkway was a 13-year-old Orthodox boy wearing a black felt hat and riding a scooter. He said he’d had…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jewish Children’s Museum Emptied By Bomb Threat
Police said they are investigating a bomb threat called into the Jewish Children’s Museum early Thursday in Brooklyn, according to DNA Info. The call happened just before opening hours in the Crown Heights neighborhood. It is the latest in more than 130 bomb threats called into JCCs, Jewish schools and other institutions nationwide since the…
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Fast Forward Al Franken: Jeff Sessions Committed Perjury — To Me
Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions perjured himself in his Senate confirmation hearings. “It’s hard to come to any other conclusion than he just perjured himself,” Franken said Tuesday on CNN. Franken questioned Sessions during his January confirmation hearings. He asked Sessions, “If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated…
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Fast Forward New York Attorney General Blasts Trump For ‘Muslim Ban 2’
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is planning to battle new travel restrictions President Donald Trump issued Monday. Schneiderman called the new order “MuslimBan2” and wrote on Twitter that he’ll see President Trump in court. While the White House may have made changes, the intent to discriminate against Muslims remains clear. #MuslimBan2 pic.twitter.com/6xi8QktBFW — Eric…
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Israel News EXPLAINED: Why Did Israel Impose An Anti-BDS Travel Ban?
Israeli lawmakers took a cue from the White House Monday night and passed a travel ban. This one will target advocates of boycotts against Israel, Israeli settlements or Israeli institutions. Although pro-Palestinian activists have faced scrutiny and sometimes denial of entry into Israel for years, this law will codify what has until now been an…
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Israel News Druze Split Over Grisly Ambulance Attack in Golan Heights
In the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, Druze attorney Kifah Johary debated with himself over this week’s killing of a wounded Syrian man en route to an Israeli hospital. Blood still stained a parking lot and shards of glass littered the asphalt outside an Israeli settlement where enraged Druze villagers allegedly pulled the man…
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News Israel’s Druze Call for Rescue of Embattled Syrian Brethren
Days after Jihadi insurgents in Syria slaughtered at least 20 Druze citizens not far from Israel’s border in mid-June, residents of Hurfeish, a village in Northern Israel, streamed to their town square on foot, horseback and bicycle, waving the bright rainbow flag of their religious sect, pledging to save their brethren. Fearing a looming genocide,…
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