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Fast Forward Senator Calls On Jewish Trump Cabinet Members To Resign
(JTA) — A Democratic Jewish senator has called on all of the Jewish members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to resign over his response to the Charlottesville demonstration. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in an interview with MSNBC on Friday evening said in response to a question about whether he thought Jewish Cabinet members should resign…
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Fast Forward Casino Giant Will Match Employee Donations To Rights Groups Like ADL
(JTA) — MGM Resorts International denounced “hate speech and hate-based actions” in a letter to employees that offered to match their donations to civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League. “The events in Charlotttesville and Barcelona can easily cause us to feel overcome by hatred and gutted by violence, leaving open questions about our future…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Praises Boston Counter Demonstrators In Tweet
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, in a tweet praised the thousands of counter demonstrators who marched in Boston in response to a conservative free speech rally. An estimated 15,000 counter demonstrators on Saturday in Boston surrounded a small group of conservatives who marched for free speech a week after a…
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Fast Forward 1 In 3 British Jews Have Considered Emigrating Over Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Almost a third of British Jews,said they have considered leaving the United Kingdom over the past two years due to anti-Semitism. The findings are part of a report published Sunday by the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog group, which conducted since 2015 interviews with more than 10,000 British Jews together with the YouGov market research…
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Fast Forward Secret Blueprint Leads Archeologists To Ancient Ritual Baths Of Vilnius Synagogue
(JTA) — A newly discovered blueprint of the destroyed great synagogue in Vilnius led a team of archaeologists to unearth the remains of two ritual baths that were used by congregants of one of Europe’s largest and most prominent Jewish communities before its annihilation. The synagogue, which was at the heart of the large Jewish community…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Insists It Did Provide Police Protection To Synagogue
(JTA) — Local officials said police provided protection to a synagogue during a far-right gathering last weekend in Charlottesville, Va., refuting a claim by a Jewish community leader that the it had refused to do so. On Friday, Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones said it “is simply not the case that Congregation Beth Israel was left…
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Fast Forward Northern California Synagogue Gets Windows Smashed
SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Police are investigating what appears to be vandalism at Temple Israel in the Bay Area city of Alameda. At about 6 p.m. on Aug. 17, congregational president Genevieve Pastor-Cohen sent an email to the congregation stating, “in the morning, it was discovered that two classroom…
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Fast Forward Barcelona’s Chief Rabbi Says Community Is Doomed After Terror Attack
(JTA) — Commenting on deadly attacks in Catalonia, the chief rabbi of that region in Spain said that his community is doomed, partly because of radical Islam and authorities’ alleged reluctance to confront it. Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen has been encouraging his congregants to leave Spain, which he called during an interview with JTA a “hub…
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