Gabe Friedman
By Gabe Friedman
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Fast Forward Israel Sold Arms to Argentina for 1982 Falklands War Against Britain: Secret Files
— Israel sold weapons to Argentina that were used to bomb British soldiers during the height of the Falklands War in 1982, newly declassified documents from the British Foreign Office show. Among Israel’s military exports to the Argentine military were Skyhawk jets, which killed dozens of British troops in the conflict, the British daily The…
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Fast Forward Indie Rocker Ezra Furman Shares New Song About His Jewish Refugee Grandfather
As he, acclaimed indie rocker (and gender nonconforming Shabbat-observant Jew) Ezra Furman isn’t shy about expressing his Jewishness in his music. But he just released his most explicitly Jewish song yet. Furman told Consequence of Sound that “The Refugee,” which he uploaded to the SoundCloud music streaming site on Wednesday, is his “first song entirely concerned…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Rabin’s Son Warns Donald Trump To Stop ‘Incitement’
— The son of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Donald Trump’s “ugly” campaign rhetoric is threatening American democracy and creating an atmosphere similar to the one in Israel leading up to his father’s assassination. In a USA Today op-ed on Sunday, Yuval Rabin wrote that the recent call by Trump to “Second Amendment…
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Food Time Anoints First-Ever ‘Bacon Critic’ — and He’s Jewish
JTA — Among those who don’t keep kosher, few food items ignite passion the way bacon does. So when the website Extra Crispy announced in June that it was searching for a Bacon Critic — yes, with capital letters — some 1,500 eager pork lovers applied for their dream job. Given the fact that bacon is…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Museum Bans Pokémon Go Amid Craze
(JTA) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is not buying into the Pokémon Go craze. On Tuesday, the Holocaust memorial site tweeted that it will not allow visitors to play the new smartphone game because it is “disrespectful on many levels.” New York magazine first reported Tuesday that some users of the Nintendo game, which allows players…
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Fast Forward Dallas Police Killer Belonged to Black Power Groups Seen as Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — Investigators may never know with certainty what combination of factors led Micah Xavier Johnson to methodically fire upon police officers in Dallas. Five white officers were killed in the attack, which came during a peaceful rally protesting the shooting deaths of young black men by law enforcement in other cities. Johnson has been…
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Fast Forward In Vilnius Forest, Jewish Prisoners Escaped Nazis Through Secret Tunnel
On the night of April 15, 1944, a group of 40 Jewish prisoners — who were being held in captivity in Lithuania, forced by Nazis to cover up the massacre of some 100,000 Jews in a forest near Vilnius — they had dug at night, using only spoons and their hands. Many of the escapees were shot…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Booed in Congress for Not Getting Behind Hillary Clinton
(JTA) — House Democrats booed Sen. Bernie Sanders on the floor of Congress Wednesday, sending him a strong message for not quitting his presidential campaign and endorsing Hillary Clinton. The House of Representatives session in the morning directed intense questioning at Sanders, a Vermont Independent senator, about why he has not yet endorsed Clinton and…
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