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Fast Forward KKK Leaves Racist Propaganda In Halloween Candy Bags
(JTA) — Several residents in a Virginia town received bags with candy and materials promoting the Ku Klux Klan. The plastic bags left outside homes in downtown Leesburg contained a cartoon that warned of “white extinction” and literature with hateful messages about Jews, African-Americans and liberals, WTOP reported. Police said the materials seemed to be…
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Fast Forward Brazil Taps Top Official For Israel Visit
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – The president of Brazil’s chamber of deputies is the country’s most senior official to visit Israel in more than a decade. Rodrigo Maia, the first in line for succession to run the country since Vice President Michel Temer replaced President Dilma Rousseff in August following her ouster by the Senate, met…
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Fast Forward Teen Indicted For Anti-Semitic Vandalism Of New York Cemetery
(JTA) — A teen was indicted for the anti-Semitic vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in New York state’s Orange County. The wall of the Beth Shalom Cemetery in the Town of Warwick, was spray painted with anti-Semitic graffiti including swastikas, “Heil Hitler,” and Nazi SS symbols more than a year ago on Oct. 9, 2016….
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Fast Forward Does Jared Kushner’s Secret Visit To Saudi Arabia Signal Mideast Breakthrough?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, traveled to Saudi Arabia last week without announcement in a bid to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace. The visit took place last week. Jason Greenblatt traveled afterward to Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian areas and Jordan, the official said and will be returning to the area…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Student Almost Misses His Wedding Over British Immigration Snafu
(JTA) — British immigration officers detained for three days a haredi Orthodox citizen of Israel and the United States who arrived in the United Kingdom to marry a citizen of that country. Yosef Goldenberg of Los Angeles, who is studying in Israel, arrived Thursday at London’s Heathrow Airport carrying his American passport en route to his wedding Monday in…
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Fast Forward Burglars Steal $5K From Brooklyn Kosher Deli
NEW YORK (JTA) — The burglars who robbed a kosher deli in Brooklyn weren’t looking for brisket or roast beef. They left the food untouched but stole $5,000, after breaking in by way of the adjacent office of a Brooklyn state senator. “They certainly weren’t desperate for pastrami,” state Sen. Simcha Felder said on Sunday,…
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Fast Forward Israel Neutral On Catalonian Independence—Angering Spain
(JTA) — Diverging with the United States and the European Union, Israel has decided it would neither to support nor oppose Catalonian independence, an Israeli news website reported. Spain on Friday requested that Israel align itself with many other Western nations in rejecting a vote declaring independence, according to the report Monday on nrg. But senior Israeli diplomats decided in…
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Fast Forward Israeli Professor Expels Arab Student For Refusing To Remove Hijab
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A lecturer at an Israeli university expelled an Arab student from class after she refused to take off her hijab. The lecturer in Bar-Ilan University’s Middle Eastern Studies department last week asked the student to take off her head and face covering, and then asked her to leave the classroom when she…
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