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Fast Forward ADL Urges Hate Crime Probe In Virginia Killing Of Muslim Girl
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League urged authorities to probe the slaying of a Muslim girl in suburban Virginia as a hate crime. “We urge the Fairfax County Police Department to investigate the murder as a possible bias crime,” Doron Ezickson, the ADL’s DC director, said in a statement Monday. “ADL has communicated that to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Scholars Say Pro-BDS Dartmouth Prof Was Treated Unfairly
(JTA) — A group of Jewish academics who oppose the boycott Israel movement decried a campaign against a Dartmouth professor who backed BDS, saying it has negatively impacted academic freedoms. N. Bruce Duthu, an associate dean and faculty member in Native American studies at Dartmouth College, declined his nomination as dean of faculty earlier this…
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Fast Forward British Jews Condemn Van Attack On Muslims
The van ramming attack at a mosque in London is “a painful illustration of why we must never allow hatred to breed hatred,” Britain’s chief rabbi said. Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said his thoughts were with those affected by the early Monday morning attack on the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, in which a van…
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Fast Forward Wife Sues To Rescind Death Certificate Of Comatose Brooklyn Man
(JTA) — The wife of a Brooklyn man on life support has asked Brooklyn’s Supreme Court to rescind a death certificate that she said was issued in error. New York-Presbyterian Hospital on May 31 issued a death certificate for Yechezkel Nakar, 68, several weeks after he was admitted to the hospital and suffered a stroke,…
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Fast Forward Valls And Le Pen Reelected To French Parliament
(JTA) — France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls both secured seats in a parliamentary election that was dominated by the party of President Emmanuel Macron. Valls, a centrist member of the Socialist Party who last year in a speech called anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism and who in 2009…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Push To Scrap Western Wall Deal On Egalitiarian Prayer
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Haredi Orthodox parties in Israel’s government have proposed a new resolution that would rescind a government decision to create an official egalitarian section at the Western Wall. The proposal was approved by the Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinowitz, and would keep in place the egalitarian prayer area erected at Robinson’s Arch,…
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Fast Forward JCC Camp Counselor Convicted Of Child Porn Overdoses Day Before Sentence Begins
(JTA) — A former counselor at a JCC camp in suburban Detroit convicted of sharing pictures of nude boys online overdosed on drugs a day before he was scheduled to enter federal prison. Matthew Kuppe, 22, was taken into federal custody on Friday, a day after he had been scheduled to enter prison and two…
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Fast Forward Thousands Attend Funeral For Israeli Policewoman Killed In Terror Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands attended the funeral of Israeli Border Police officer Hadas Malka, who died from injuries sustained during a Palestinian terror attack. The funeral at a military cemetery in Ashdod began just after midnight on Sunday morning, about 24 hours after she died of her wounds sustained during the Friday night attack near…
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