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Fast Forward Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Had Associations With Holocaust Deniers
WASHINGTON (JTA) A Pennsylvania Republican congressman running for the Senate was interviewed by and appeared at an event with Holocaust deniers, CNN reported. CNN’s KFile, which delves into candidates’ past, uncovered an interview that Rep. Lou Barletta gave in 2006 when he was mayor of the town of Hazleton with the American Free Press, a…
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Fast Forward 1/3 Of American Holocaust Survivors Live In Poverty, Aid Group Says
(JTA) — One-third of Holocaust survivors in the United States continue to live at or below the poverty line, according to an aid organization. The Blue Card, which provides financial assistance to survivors, reported the statistic ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. Last year, the same proportion of survivors were at or below…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement Mentioned Jews, Unlike Last Year
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump called the Holocaust the “systematic persecution and brutal murder of six million Jewish people” — a marked departure from last year, when his message omitted any reference to Jews. “Tomorrow marks the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi death…
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Fast Forward Journalist: Politicians Asked Me To Hide Photo Of Obama And Farrakhan
(JTA) — Barack Obama posed for a photo as a senator in 2005 with Louis Farrakhan, the virulently anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam movement, and the photographer said he suppressed its publication at the request of a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. The Trice Edney News Wire first published the photo on…
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Fast Forward Melania Trump Tours D.C. Holocaust Museum Ahead Of Remembrance Day
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Melania Trump toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a year after husband President Trump stirred controversy by releasing a statement on the day that did not mention Jews. “My thoughts and prayers are with the people whose lives and families were broken by the horrors of…
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Fast Forward New Orleans Rescinds Human Rights Resolution Celebrated By BDS Activists
(JTA) — The City of New Orleans rescinded a recent resolution, celebrated by anti-Israel activists, that would have prohibited investment with human rights violators. Although the measure, passed 5-0 on January 11, did not mention Israel or the Palestinians, it was drafted by the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee, which cheered its passage. The resolution, authored…
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Fast Forward Obama Used To Joke That He’s ‘Basically A Liberal Jew,’ He Tells NY Shul
(JTA) — Barack Obama said his administration refrained from vetoing a 2016 United Nations Security Council resolution critical of Israeli settlements because the pace of their construction “skyrocketed.” The former president spoke Wednesday during a rare public appearance at New York’s synagogue congregation of Temple Emanu-El, according to the British Daily Mail newspaper. He was…
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Fast Forward Israeli-American Mother Of 4 Charged With $67,000 Welfare Fraud
(JTA) — An Israeli mother of four from New York was indicted for allegedly cheating the government out of $67,000 in welfare payment that she obtained under false pretense. Galit Levi, 37, of the Queens neighborhood of Hollis Hills, was charged Thursday with grand larceny, welfare fraud, and falsifying business records, the Queens District Attorney’s…
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