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Fast Forward Swiss Lawmaker Slams Israel Amid Furor Over Jewish Pool Sign
(JTA) — Commenting on a public outcry over signs that urged Jews at a Swiss hotel to shower, a state lawmaker from Geneva said “Israel should apologize for its excessive tolerance of ultra-Orthodox Jews who prevent peace in Palestine.” Roger Deneys, a Socialist representative at the Grand Council of Geneva, made the assertion on Facebook Wednesday about…
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Fast Forward Booking.com Drops Swiss Hotel That Singled Out Jews
(JTA) — The online hotel reservation service Booking.com dropped from its website a Swiss establishment whose management put up signs singling out Jews and urging them to shower before entering the swimming pool. A Booking.com representative told Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, on Wednesday that it has dropped Paradise Apartments in Arosa, some 80…
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Fast Forward Both Bush Presidents Condemn Charlottesville Anti-Semitism And Racism
(JTA) — Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush issued a joint statement rejecting “racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms.” “As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded by the fundamental truths recorded by that city’s most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed…
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Fast Forward March For Racial Justice Seeks Ways To ‘Include’ Jews — Despite Yom Kippur Date
The March for Racial Justice, scheduled for Yom Kippur, is looking to adjust its schedule to accommodate Jewish marchers. The date of the march will not be changed, but related events may be held on that Saturday night or the next day. In a statement Wednesday, organizers of the civil rights march said that scheduling…
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Fast Forward Echoing Trump, Netanyahu’s Son Says Leftist ‘Thugs’ More Dangerous Than Neo-Nazis
(JTA) – The son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoed President Trump by suggesting that far-left thugs are just as dangerous as neo-Nazis — or maybe even worse. Yair Netanyahu was commenting on events Saturday in which a white supremacist rammed his car into counterprotesters of a far-right rally, killing one and injuring some…
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Fast Forward Will Swiss Lawmakers Vote To Ban Imports Of Kosher Meat?
(JTA) – Lawmakers in Switzerland are set to vote on a bill proposing to outlaw the import of meat from ritual slaughter of animals, which is already illegal in the Alpine country. The bill, which was submitted in June by Matthias Aebischer, a federal lawmaker for the Social-Democratic Party of Switzerland – the country’s second-largest…
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Fast Forward Israeli School Official Faces Child Porn Charges
(JTA) — Prosecutors in Israel indicted an education municipal official who was responsible for security at schools of possessing and disseminating child pornography. The defendant, a 56-year-old resident of Rishon Lezion and the man responsible for providing security to the city’s schools and kindergartens, was indicted Wednesday at the city’s magistrates court approximately two weeks…
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Fast Forward Historian Seeks To Exhume 340 Jews Murdered By Polish Neighbors
(JTA) — A senior state historian in Poland is seeking the exhumation of bodies of Jews murdered by Polish villagers, citing a witness whom he said claims that Germans organized the slaughter. Krzysztof Krasowski, a leader of the regional office of the Institute of National Remembrance, or IPN, in Białystok, last month sent the request…
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