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Fast Forward Coroner: Otto Warmbier Wasn’t Tortured, Contradicting Trump, Parents
(JTA) — An Ohio coroner said that a post-mortem examination of Otto Warmbier, the Jewish-American college student who died after being imprisoned in North Korea, did not show any obvious signs of torture. The Wednesday statement contradicted President Trump and Warmbier’s parents, who claimed the 22-year-old was tortured by North Korea. Trump said Warmbier “was tortured…
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Fast Forward Caterpillar And Priceline On UN List For Doing Business In Occupied West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United Nations Human Rights Council has sent letters to 150 companies warning them that they will be placed on a database of companies that do business in Israeli settlements. Caterpillar, Priceline.com, TripAdvisor and Airbnb are among the 30 U.S. companies on the list. The letters sent by the U.N. high commissioner for…
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Fast Forward HIAS Slams Trump’s 45,000 Cap On Refugees
(JTA) — President Donald Trump is “betraying” U.S. commitments to refugees by nearly halving the number the country will allow in this year from 2016, the major Jewish immigrant advocacy group HIAS said. Trump administration officials said Wednesday that the United States will cap the number of refugees at 45,000 for fiscal year 2018 —…
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Fast Forward Amid #TakeAKnee National Anthem Protests, ADL Forms Sports Council
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League will work with sports leaders and athletes to promote “positive social change” as the controversy over some NFL players not standing for the national anthem rages. On Thursday, the ADL announced the formation of a Sports Leadership Council, which it said will “work directly with key leaders in the sports…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Dormitory Vandalized With Swastikas
(JTA) — Several swastikas were found drawn on message boards outside two dormitory rooms in the same residence hall at Brandeis University. Public safety officers removed the images, officials at the Jewish-founded nonsectarian university said this week in a letter addressed to “Members of the Brandeis community.” Also, the letter said, posters targeting pro-Palestinian student…
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Fast Forward Canada Opens National Holocaust Memorial — At Last
]Canada inaugurated a national Holocaust memorial in Ottawa as its government reportedly readied itself to formally apologize for turning away 900 European Jews from its shores on the eve of the Holocaust. The National Holocaust Monument – a stark, stylized Star of David in form — took a decade to complete, at a cost of…
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The Schmooze Remembering The Jewish Playmates Who Graced The Pages Of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Legacy
Honoring The Jewish Playboy Playmates
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Marks 50 Years Of Occupation By Claiming ‘We Will Uproot Neither Jews Nor Arabs’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — “There will be no more uprooting of communities in the Land of Israel,” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at an event marking 50 years of Jewish settlements on occupied land. Thousands attended the controversial event held Wednesday night in a field outside of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion. In addition to…
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