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Fast Forward Polish Group Sues Newspaper In First Test Of Controversial New Holocaust Law
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A right-wing Polish group sued a newspaper in Argentina under the country’s new Holocaust law for using a photo of Polish partisans to illustrate an article about the Jedwabne pogrom of 1941. The lawsuit was filed on Friday by the Polish League Against Defamation, or the Reduta Dobrego Imienia (RDI), hours…
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Fast Forward IDF Soldiers Hanged In Effigy In Jerusalem Ultra-Orthodox Neighborhoods
(JTA) — Two effigies of Israeli soldiers with a rope around their necks were hung in predominantly Haredi areas of Jerusalem, in what Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said was a “shocking” criminal act. Police officers on Friday removed the effigies, one of which was soaked in flammable fluid, from a rooftop in Jerusalem’s Me’a She’arim…
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Fast Forward Grandson Of Munich Olympics Terrorist Wins Democrat Endorsement For House Seat
WASHINGTON (JTA) — California Democrats have endorsed the grandson of an architect of the Munich Massacre for a congressional seat. Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Palestinian American, won the state party convention’s endorsement last weekend for the June primary in the 50th District, an inland district west of San Diego. Campa-Najjar has forged ties with his local…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Eliminated From NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament
(JTA) — Yeshiva University was eliminated from the NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament with an 81-67 opening-round loss to host York College of Pennsylvania. The Maccabees, who were making their first appearance in the national tournament, finished their season with a record of 18-11. Gabriel Leifer, a 6-5 forward from Lawrence, New York, led…
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Fast Forward Three Israeli Security Officers Injured In Suspected Car-Ramming Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers and a border police officer were injured in a suspected car-ramming attack in the northern city of Acre. The driver of an SUV late on Sunday morning hit a Border Police officer near the city’s central market, and then hit two Israeli soldiers near the city’s train station. The…
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Fast Forward Bill Would Codify $38B In Defense Aid For Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan bill timed for AIPAC’s annual conference would codify into law the memorandum of understanding signed in 2016 by Israel and the United States guaranteeing Israel $38 billion in defense assistance over 10 years. The bill introduced Friday is sponsored by two Middle East policy leaders in the U.S. House of…
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Fast Forward Yossi’s Mitzvah At McDonald’s Went Viral — For All The Wrong Reasons
(JTA) — A Jewish man generated a media storm with his video showing police kicking a homeless man out of South Carolina McDonald’s restaurant after he had treated the man to a meal there. Yossi Gallo of Myrtle Beach, whose mother, Dina Galimidi is Israeli, posted on Wednesday the video to Facebook, where it has…
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Fast Forward ‘Anti-Semitic’ Caricature Of Stephen Miller Slammed By Watchdog
(JTA) — Belgium’s main watchdog on anti-Semitism accused a local cartoonist who was honored at Iran’s Holocaust mockery festival of drawing a Nazi-like caricature of White House adviser Stephen Miller. Luc Descheemaeker, who in 2016 received a $1,000 prize from Tehran at its annual cartoon contest about the genocide, published the caricature of Miller in January….
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