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News Activists plan to ‘celebrate and escalate’ after ADL pauses police training
For the last five years, a coalition of progressive activists have been calling on the Anti-Defamation League to stop facilitating American police training in Israel. Now they’re planning to gather at the organization’s New York City headquarters Tuesday night to celebrate a win: according to an ADL memo leaked to the media last week, the…
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News ‘Antisemitism is too normalized’: Students rally after replica Torah is defaced
Hundreds of Jewish students and supporters gathered on the campus of George Washington University Monday evening to protest the vandalism of a replica Torah in the basement of a fraternity house on campus. With many attendees decked out in the school’s navy blue colors and Greek life apparel, and a handful wearing yarmulkes, the crowd…
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Fast Forward After bowing out of mayor’s race, Max Rose appointed to Pentagon job as COVID adviser
Max Rose, the outspoken Staten Island Jewish congressman defeated in his bid for reelection, appears headed to the Pentagon to be a top adviser on the coronavirus pandemic. Rose appeared on a long list of likely Biden administration political appointees leaked on Tuesday to Defense One, which covers the Pentagon. His title would be special…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen to be nominated as first female treasury secretary
Joe Biden is set to name Janet Yellen secretary of the treasury, according to multiple reports on Monday. She would be the first woman in the role and the third Jewish treasury secretary in a row, after President Trump’s choice Steven Mnuchin and President Obama’s second term pick Jack Lew. Yellen, 74, has already made…
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Fast Forward Two potted marijuana plants seized from Argentine synagogue’s courtyard
Police seized two pots of marijuana plants from the courtyard of a historic synagogue in Medanos, a small village in the Buenos Aires province. Medanos, once the rural home of about 100 Argentine Jews, is in the Villarino district. Villarino Mayor Carlos Bevillacua said the synagogue was not responsible in any way for the marijuana…
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Fast Forward Biden nominates Alejandro Mayorkas, Latino Jew who has said Jews face heightened threat, as Homeland Security secretary
President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, a Latino Jew who has emphasized the heightened threat facing American Jews, as his Homeland Security secretary on Monday. Mayorkas, 60, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, was born in Cuba to a Cuban-Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother. His mother survived…
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Fast Forward Report: Satmar Orthodox Jews hid massive wedding from public view, Cuomo calls for investigation
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on Mayor De Blasio to investigate reports of a Hasidic wedding with thousands of guests held earlier this month on November 8. The wedding would have been held just weeks after another prominent Satmar wedding was publicly called off amid a backlash over convening guests during the pandemic, members of…
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Fast Forward Pompeo’s historic Israel visit includes winery that has named a vintage for him
Mike Pompeo became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit both an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, a disputed area on Israel’s border with Syria that the Trump administration has recognized as part of Israel. At a news conference Thursday in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pompeo…
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