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Fast Forward Protesters Hold Vigil Against Restaurant With Mural Of Palestinian Terrorist
(JTA) — Protesters gathered outside of an Arab-style bakery and restaurant in Oakland, California to protest a life-size mural in the shop featuring convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh. Sunday’s vigil also protested a book reading and signing by Sunaina Maira, an Asian-American studies professor at the University of California, Davis of her new book about…
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Fast Forward Kotel Rabbi Apologizes To Female Reporter For Discrimination During Pence Visit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbi of the Western Wall sent a letter of apology to the editor of the Israeli business daily Globes for the discriminatory treatment of one of its reporters during Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the site last week. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, writing to Globes editor-in-chief Naama Sikuler, said “I want…
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Fast Forward N.J. Man Gets Transplant After Photo Of ‘In Need Of Kidney’ T-Shirt Goes Viral
(JTA) — A New Jersey man who sought a kidney by wearing a T-shirt at Disney World with the request and his cell phone number received a donation from a stranger. Robert Leibowitz wore a T-shirt every day during a week-long vacation at Disney World last summer that read: “In Need of Kidney. O Positive,”…
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Fast Forward Billionaire Couple Barry And Honey Sherman Were Murdered, Police Say
(JTA) — Toronto police said they believe billionaire philanthropist Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, were murdered in their Toronto home. The conclusion comes six weeks after the couple was found dead near their indoor pool and a week after private investigators announced that the couple was murdered. Police initially theorized that the deaths were a murder-suicide,…
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Fast Forward Israel Appalled Over Poland Effort To Criminalize The Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. “The law is baseless; I strongly oppose it” Netanyahu said in a…
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Fast Forward RNC Finance Chairman Steve Wynn Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Accusations
(JTA) — Casino operator Steve Wynn stepped down from his position as Republican National Committee finance chairman following a report alleging sexual misconduct. Wynn, 76, who is close to President Trump, denied the allegations published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. Last week, Wynn headed a fundraiser for the Trump’s reelection campaign and the…
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Fast Forward Yair Lapid Fights With Poland Embassy Over ‘Polish Death Camps’ Bill
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli politicians condemned a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid Party, wrote on Facebook that “Poland was complicit in…
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Fast Forward Man Arrested For Shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ At Concentration Camp Visitors
(JTA) — A man shouted “Heil Hitler” and made the Nazi salute at a rabbi and his grandson, who were visiting the former concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria. The man also shouted “Mein Volk, Mein Reich, mein Fuhrer,” the motto of the Nazi regime, during Friday’s incident, the AFP news agency reported. The man was…
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