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Fast Forward Natalie Portman Tells Women’s March Of ‘Sexual Terror’ At 13
(JTA) — Jewish actress Natalie Portman told thousands of marchers at the Women’s March Los Angeles that she experienced “sexual terrorism” at the age of 13 following the release of her first movie. She said her first fan letter after the release of “The Professional,” in which she played a young girl who befriended a…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Shun Women’s March To Protest Scarlett Johansson
(JTA) — A Palestinian women’s group pulled out of the Women’s March Los Angeles over the inclusion of Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson as a featured speaker. Several other pro-Palestinian groups also boycotted the march held on Saturday, one of dozens that took place across the United States to fight for women’s rights and progressive causes….
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Synagogue, Jewish Hospice Targeted In Vandalism Incidents
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Police in the Netherlands are investigating vandalism at a synagogue and a hospice for people dying of terminal diseases. The incident at the Immanuel Hospice occurred on Jan. 2, the AT5 television channel reported Wednesday. A man wearing a sports jacket dislodged and stole two security cameras in the early hours of…
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Culture Julius Lester, Beloved Author, Activist And Scholar, Dies At 78
(JTA) — Julius Lester, an African-American singer, scholar and activist whose conversion to Judaism in 1982 came as a shock to those who only remembered his role in a bitter, racially charged school strike in New York’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood in 1968, has died. His family announced his death, which came after a brief hospitalization,…
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Fast Forward Lebanese Audiences Will See ‘The Post,’ Interior Minister Rules
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Lebanon’s interior ministry has overturned a ban on screening the newspaper drama “The Post,” directed by Steven Spielberg. Lebanon’s censorship board had made the decision to ban the film based on a “boycott Israel” list, which Spielberg appears on since he shot some scenes from the 1993 film “Schindler’s List” in Jerusalem,…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Guard, Now 96, Denied Clemency For Role In Murder Of Hungarian Jews
(JTA) — A plea for clemency filed by a 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard ordered by Germany’s highest court to serve his prison sentence for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews has been denied. “The clemency request has been denied,” Wiebke Bethke, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors’ office in Lüneburg told news agency epd. Groening…
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Fast Forward Mathilde Krim, Pioneering AIDS Researcher Who Fought Stigma, Dies At 91
(JTA) — Mathilde Krim, a prominent AIDS researcher who fought the stigma surrounding the disease, has died. Krim passed away on Monday at the age of 91, people close to her wrote on Facebook. The researcher founded the AIDS Medical Foundation in 1983, at a time when widespread homophobia hampered people from speaking out about AIDS,…
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Fast Forward Austrian Jews To Boycott Holocaust Ceremony If Far-Right Ministers Attend
A Jewish leader in Austria said community officials would not attend the nation’s official Holocaust commemoration ceremony if lawmakers from the far-right Freedom Party are present. “If there will be ministers there for the Freedom Party, and I’m sure there will be, I will not be able to shake their hands, so the Jewish community…
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