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Fast Forward Otto Warmbier’s Father Will Attend Olympics With Mike Pence
(JTA) — The father of Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student imprisoned by North Korea who died after being sent back comatose to the United States, will attend the Olympics Opening Ceremonies as a guest of Vice President Mike Pence. The Olympics will open in PyeongChang, South Korea on February 9. Pence will lead…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein’s High School Classmate Pleads Not Guilty To Murder
(JTA) — A former high school classmate of Blaze Bernstein, 19, the Jewish college student found dead in a park near his parents’ Southern California home, pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Samuel Woodward, 20, of Newport Beach, California, was ordered held on $5 million bail, after he issued his plea on Friday in Orange County…
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Fast Forward Israel Seizes Explosives Headed To Gaza Hidden In Shipment Of Medical Equipment
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli officials at the Kerem Shalom crossing thwarted an attempt to smuggle explosives into the Gaza Strip in a shipment of medical equipment. The seized materials were identified as a central component used in the preparation of explosive charges and in the high-trajectory industry in the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Defense…
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Fast Forward Israel Begins Sending Deportation Notices To African Migrants
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel began the process of serving deportation notices to African refugees from Eritrea and Sudan. The notices started being distributed on Sunday, according to reports. The first notices will be issued to single men without children, a total of about 20,000 men. The men, who have to renew their residence visas every…
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Fast Forward Why Did This Congressman Give A Holocaust Denier A State Of The Union Ticket?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Republican congressman says he gave Chuck Johnson, a notorious right-wing troll who once denied the Holocaust, a ticket to the State of the Union because he seemed polite. Johnson has been banned from numerous platforms for his online “trolling,” or harassing those with whom he disagrees. He has said he believes…
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Fast Forward German Foreign Minister: We Were Responsible For The Holocaust, Not Poland
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Germany was responsible for the Holocaust, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on the heels of Polish legislation that seeks to distance the country from Nazi atrocities. “Poland can be sure that any form of falsification of history, like the term ‘Polish concentration camps,’ will be unequivocally rejected and strongly condemned by…
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Fast Forward Bill To Ban Circumcision Introduced In Iceland’s Parliament
(JTA) — Lawmakers from four political parties in Iceland introduced a bill in parliament that would ban the nonmedical circumcision of boys younger than 18 and impose imprisonment of up to six years on offenders. Members of the ruling Left Green Movement, the Progressive Party, People’s Party and the Pirate Party submitted the bill to…
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Fast Forward ADL Chief Suggests Israel Deporting African Migrants Would Appear Racist
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, likened African migrants in Israel to the “Dreamers” at the heart of a contentious U.S. immigration debate and suggested that deporting them would make Israel appear racist. “African refugees, who seem like the Dreamers in the U.S. — young people who by dint of…
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