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Fast Forward Natalie Portman Has ‘100 Stories’ Of Discrimination Or Harassment
(JTA) — Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman said she has had “discrimination or harassment on almost everything I’ve ever worked on in some way.” Portman was asked about the many sexual harassment and abuse allegations coming out of Hollywood in recent weeks during her talk Sunday at Vulture Festival L.A. “When I heard everything coming out,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Justice Joins Argentina’s Supreme Court In Landmark Appointment
(JTA) — Carlos Rosenkrantz, a Buenos Aires attorney and law professor, as well as a former presidential adviser, will be the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court of Argentina. Rosenkrantz, 57, is expected to be sworn in to the nation’s highest court next month after being approved last week by two-thirds of the Senate….
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Fast Forward BBC Host Apologizes For ‘Fat Jewish Guy’ Comment
(JTA) — A BBC host has apologized for saying it is “great” that music artists are no longer being managed by “some random fat Jewish guy from northwest London.” “I am hugely apologetic for this flippant comment,” Reggie Yates, a Radio 1 host and TV presenter, said Monday in his apology. “It was not my…
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Fast Forward NY Times Suspends Reporter Glenn Thrush After Sexual Impropriety Allegations
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York Times suspended Glenn Thrush, its Washington, D.C., correspondent, amid allegations he made unwanted advances toward female journalists. The Times said Monday that it was looking into allegations made by four women that Thrush made sexual advances, including kissing and touching them. The allegations were published Monday in a…
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Fast Forward Uganda Becomes 100th Country With Chabad-Lubavitch Center
(JTA) — Uganda has become the 100th country to have a Chabad-Lubavitch outpost. Rabbi Moishe and Yocheved Raskin established the Chabad of Uganda in the capital city of Kampala in October, it was announced Sunday at the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York. The couple moved from Israel with their young son, Menachem…
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Fast Forward Rabin Assassin Yigal Amir To Ask For Retrial
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yigal Amir, who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, is asking for a retrial. Amir, 47, was sentenced to life in solitary confinement in prison for the murder, which occurred after a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Amir confessed to shooting Rabin and reenacted it for police. He opposed Rabin’s territorial…
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Fast Forward Israeli President Rejects Pardon For Soldier Who Shot Downed Terrorist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin rejected a request to pardon a former Israeli soldier convicted of shooting and killing an injured Palestinian terrorist as he lay on the ground. Rivlin rejected the request to pardon jailed soldier Elor Azaria, who is serving a reduced sentence of 14 months in prison for the murder….
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Fast Forward Israel Fires On Syrian Military Outpost In Golan Buffer Zone
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces fired on a Syrian military outpost in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights for the second time in two days. Israeli tanks fired warning shots on the military installation Sunday evening after Syrian soldiers were spotted working to fortify the outpost in violation…
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