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Fast Forward Suspected Police Impersonator Arrested At Long Island Orthodox Synagogue
(JTA) — A 28-year-old New York City man was arrested for pretending to be a police officer in order to enter an Orthodox synagogue in a Long Island suburb. Police arrested Mikhail Mikhaylov of Far Rockaway, Queens, after he entered Temple Young Israel of Woodmere, in the heavily Orthodox Five Towns area, at the end…
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Fast Forward Mayim Bialik Blasts ‘Absurd’ Yom Kippur Date For Racial Justice March
(JTA) — Jewish actress Mayim Bialik called out the March for Racial Justice for taking place on Yom Kippur. In a Facebook post Sunday, Bialik complained that the timing of the march against white supremacy, scheduled for Sept. 30 in Washington, D.C., excludes Jews, who traditionally spend Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, fasting and…
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Fast Forward Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates $100K To Simon Wiesenthal Center After Charlottesville
(JTA) — Arnold Schwarzenegger has donated $100,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which combats anti-Semitism and bigotry, in the wake of the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The actor and former California governor announced the donation Sunday on Facebook, where he wrote that he was “horrified” by the previous day’s rally bringing together neo-Nazis, white…
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Fast Forward Boston Holocaust Memorial Vandalized — Again
BOSTON (JTA) – A pane of glass was shattered Monday evening at the New England Holocaust Memorial, the second time in less than two months the memorial was vandalized. One person, a 17-year-old juvenile male, is in custody for the alleged vandalism, a spokesman with the Boston Police Department told JTA. Two passersby tackled the alleged…
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Fast Forward Temple Mount Activist Yehuda Glick Sets Up Office Next To Entrance
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Yehuda Glick, a lawmaker from the Likud party, held office hours outside an entrance to the Temple Mount to protest an ongoing ban against Knesset members visiting the holy site. Glick, a longtime activist for Jewish prayer rights at the Temple Mount, told reporters that the action Monday would only last…
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Fast Forward Man Menaces French Jewish Family With Knife
(JTA) — French police detained a man on suspicion of threatening a Jewish man with a knife in the southern city of Cannes. The Jewish man, identified by the Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism as B. Olivier, said the suspect assaulted him Thursday morning at 11 a.m. while he was trying to cross a road with…
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Fast Forward Ambassador David Friedman’s Daughter Immigrates To Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Talia Friedman, the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, immigrated to Israel. A 23-year-old nurse, Talia Friedman officially became an Israeli citizen at Ben-Gurion Airport Tuesday morning along with 233 other North Americans who arrived on a flight chartered by the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah group. David Friedman greeted his…
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Fast Forward Swiss Hotel Posts Signs Telling Jews To Shower Before Entering Pool
(JTA) — The manager of a hotel in Switzerland said she was wrong to post signs instructing “Jewish guests” to shower before entering the pool and to access the refrigerator at set times. Ruth Thomann, who runs the Paradies Arosa hotel 80 miles southeast of Zurich, responded Monday to articles published in Israeli media outlets…
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