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Fast Forward WATCH: Masha Gessen Says We Face Nuclear Holocaust
Russian-American Jewish journalist Masha Gessen gave dire advice Wednesday on “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.” Asked, “what is the recipe for successfully resisting autocracy,” Gessen said, “I had to flee my country. Most efforts to successfully resist that I know of failed.” Gessen was born in Moscow to a Jewish family. She moved to the…
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Fast Forward Do Fellow Bigots Regret Toppling Neo-Nazi Mike Enoch?
A day after neo-Nazi podcaster and blogger Mike Peinovich stepped down over the revelation that his wife is Jewish, his fellow podcast hosts admit they are losing listeners. “It’s a disaster,” a blogger named Sven said, according to the New York Daily News. Peinovich, previously known as Mike Enoch, was considered one of the leaders…
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Fast Forward Oracle Gets Sued for Paying White Men More
The software giant Oracle, where Donald Trump appointee Safra Catz is CEO, is getting hit with a discrimination lawsuit by the Department of Labor. According to BuzzFeed, the DOL claims Oracle paid women, African-Americans and Asian workers less than they paid white men for the same jobs. In the official complaint, the DOL claims Oracle…
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Fast Forward American Ambassador to Israel is Staying On as an Expat
Outgoing U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro is leaving his diplomatic mansion in Herzliya but he’s not going home – instead, he and his family have rented a house in nearby Raanana to finish the school year. In an exit interview with Haaretz, Shapiro said he has received no calls from his possible successor David…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Did Obama Just Sound Final Death Knell for Mideast Peace?
In his final White House press conference on Wednesday, outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama seemed ready to close the book on peace between Israel and the Palestinians. “I don’t see how this issue gets resolved in a way that maintains Israel as both Jewish and a democracy because if you do not have two states,…
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Fast Forward For Jeff Sessions, David Horowitz Award a Stumbling Block
A Jewish senator from Connecticut grilled attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions Tuesday about his ties to conservative Jewish activist and publisher David Horowitz, suggesting that Sessions could not defend all Americans because he accepted an award from a man with overtly anti-Muslim views. Sessions received the 2014 David Horowitz Freedom Center Annie Taylor Award for…
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Fast Forward Former Obama Speechwriter Creates Anti-Trump Company
Three former staffers to President Barack Obama have created a company to counter Donald Trump with a podcast and updates that bypass traditional media to reach out to their audience directly. Their site is called “Crooked Media,” a wink at Trump’s vilification of the press. One founder is former Obama and Hillary Clinton speechwriter Jon…
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Fast Forward Authorities Say Ft. Lauderdale Shooter Said Nothing — ABC News Claimed He Shouted ‘I’m Not Jewish’
Authorities Saturday said the gunman who shot and killed at least five people at Fort Lauderdale International Airport in Florida did not say anything during the rampage. That rebutted an early report by ABC News that the gunman screamed “I’m not Jewish” as he unleashed the gunfire. Witness say the shooter in some sort of…
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