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Fast Forward Gal Gadot Picture Yanked From Lebanese Designer’s Instagram After Backlash
(JTA) — The fashion studio of the Lebanese designer Elie Saab deleted from Instagram a picture of Gal Gadot amid rebuke over its ties to the Israeli actress. The image of Gadot, who starred in last year’s action thriller “Wonder Woman,” in a blue sash dress by Saab was accompanied by a description of the…
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Fast Forward Blogger On Trial For Holocaust-Denying YouTube Videos Sings Along In Court
(JTA) — A British blogger who posted songs on YouTube denying the Holocaust and mocking survivors is on trial. British media reported Wednesday that Alison Chabloz has been charged with “sending obscene material by public communication.” She appeared to sing along with the three songs in question as they were played in a London court…
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Fast Forward Justice Dept. Reopens Hezbollah Drug Smuggling Probes
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is setting up a special task force on Hezbollah’s drug trade activities to revive investigations that languished during the Obama administration. “The Justice Department will leave no stone unturned in order to eliminate threats to our citizens from terrorist organizations and to stem the tide of the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Committee Approves 1,122 New Housing Units In West Bank Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli planning committee approved over 1,000 new West Bank housing units. The Civil Administration, the military body that enforces Israeli policy on citizens in the West Bank, on Wednesday approved the 1,122 new housing units in 20 settlements and outposts in the West Bank, according to Peace Now. On Wednesday tenders…
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Fast Forward D.C. Will Rename Street By Russian Embassy To Honor Slain Jewish Kremlin Critic
(JTA) — In a move that Russian officials called a provocation, city authorities in Washington D.C. advanced the naming of a street adjacent to the Russian embassy street for a murdered Jewish Kremlin critic. The Council of the District of Columbia on Tuesday unanimously approved plans to create Boris Nemtsov Plaza in honor of the…
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Fast Forward Far-Right German Party Demands Place On Holocaust Memorial Board
(JTA) — Now that it has made it into the Bundestag, Germany’s strongest right-wing populist political party is insisting on claiming its place on the board of the foundation for the national Holocaust memorial in Berlin. The initiator of the foundation and memorial itself, Lea Rosh, has rejected the idea out of hand, the Tagesspiegel newspaper…
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Fast Forward Missing Jewish College Student Blaze Bernstein Found Dead
This is a developing story. (JTA) — Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old Jewish student at the University of Pennsylvania who went missing from his parents’ Southern California home, has been found dead. Bernstein’s body was found Tuesday in brush surrounding Borrego Park in Lake Forest, his hometown, CBS News reported. His death is being investigated as…
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Fast Forward North Carolina Imam’s Sermon Invokes Islamic Text About Killing Jews
(JTA) — An imam in Raleigh, North Carolina, invoked an Islamic text that prophesies the killing of Jews by Muslims during a sermon at a local mosque. Abdullah Khadra made the statements in a sermon early last month, two days after President Trump announced that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Muslims, Khadra…
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