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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Head Says World Has Failed To Prevent Atrocities In Syria
The chairman of Yad Vashhem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, said on Tuesday that international organizations established in response to World War II have failed in Syria, The Times Of Israel reported. Avner Shalev’s comment was in response to Saturday’s alleged chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Douma by President Bashar Assad’s regime. “We all…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Basketball Coach Called Student ‘Jew Boy’
Brandeis University fired head basketball coach Brian Meehan last week, citing multiple complaints about racial discrimination from players dating back years. Now new reports say the complaints date back five years — and he also allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks to a student manager on the team, Deadspin reported. The former student manager, Phil Keisman, told…
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Fast Forward Did Bar Refaeli Use Leonardo DiCaprio To Hide From Israeli Taxman?
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli agreed on Monday to provide prosecutors with bank details as she faces a massive tax evasion case, The Times of Israel reported. Refaeli had previously resisted handing over the paperwork to prosecutors who suspect she hid tens of millions of dollars of income. Refaeli claimed to not have been living in…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Lawmaker Unleashes Rant Against Jews At Community Meeting
A New York state assemblywoman delivered a rant against Jews during a community board meeting in Brooklyn last Monday night, The New York Post reported. During her 50-minute address, Diane Richardson allegedly blamed Jews for gentrifying areas in her district, which includes parts of Crown Heights and Flatbush. “It must be Jewish people,” Richardson responded…
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Fast Forward Does Joshua Kushner Even Care If Girlfriend Karlie Kloss Converts Or Not?
Brothers Jared and Josh Kushner’s opposing political views have been reported since Trump became president and the older brother took office. Now, their potentially differing opinions on intermarriage are also coming into play, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported in a Sunday Review opinion piece. The column explored whether supermodel Karlie Kloss, who has…
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Fast Forward Harvard Student Says Michael Cohen Threatened Him Over ‘Endorsement’ Prank
Harvard senior Tom Waddick says that he received a threatening call from Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen following a prank he helped pulled on Trump in 2015, Boston Magazine reported. Waddick works at the Harvard Lampoon, the university’s comedy magazine, which is known to pull off pranks. The prank against then-candidate Trump began when Waddick, along…
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Fast Forward Feds Catch Fugitive Sex Slave Cult Leader Backed By Bronfman Heiresses
A cult leader backed by heiresses of a prominent Jewish philanthropic family was arrested by authorities near a Mexican resort on Monday, The Washington Post reported. Kieth Raniere, who goes by the name “Vanguard,” had claimed to be poor but had been living with multiple women in a villa that cost up to $10,000 a…
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Fast Forward Parkland Parents Bracing For First Passover Without Their Children
This Passover will be particularly emotional for the Parkland families who lost their children to last month’s shooting. “[Passover is] about remembering the past so we can learn for the future,” Ilan Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter Alyssa was killed, told the New York Post. “We’re going to bring everyone together and celebrate her life,” added…
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