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Fast Forward UK Medical Journal Publishes Issue Analyzing Israel 3 Years After Denouncing It
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The British medical journal The Lancet published a special issue on Israel three years after publishing an open letter that accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. The special issue, titled “Health in Israel: Progress and Challenges in a Region of Conflict,” was unveiled Monday in Tel Aviv. The issue is…
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Fast Forward FBI Director Comey: We Need To Improve Hate Crime Tracking
WASHINGTON (JTA) — FBI Director James Comey called for improvements in how law enforcement reports hate crimes in a speech to the Anti-Defamation League on Monday. “We must do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crime to fully understand what is happening in our country so we can stop it,” he told the…
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Fast Forward In First, Florida State Budget Includes Money For Jewish School Security
(JTA) — Florida lawmakers passed a budget that allocates $645,000 to increase security at Jewish day schools. The fiscal year 2018 budget approved on Monday night marked the first time that the state’s Legislature has allocated security funds to Jewish day schools, according to the Orthodox Union. An O.U. program, Teach Florida, helped draft the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Urge Trump To Stay In Paris Climate Change Agreement
NEW YORK (JTA) — Three Jewish groups called on President Trump to keep the United States as a signatory in the United Nations’ Paris climate change agreement. The Union for Reform Judaism, the American Jewish World Service and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life joined 20 other religious groups in urging Trump to…
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Fast Forward London Man Waving Meat Cleaver And Threatening Jews Is Arrested
(JTA) — An unidentified man waving a meat cleaver and a large knife who allegedly threatened Jews in a heavily Jewish neighborhood in North London was arrested. The man reportedly tried to enter a kosher food shop during the incident on Tuesday but was prevented from doing so when staff locked the door, according to…
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News 7 Apps That Make Life Easier For Observant Jews
(JTA) — These days there are smartphone applications for pretty much anything, from ordering food to finding a date to reporting anti-Semitic incidents. But what about tools for living a religious Jewish life? Well, there are apps for that, too. Whereas in the time before smartphones, observant Jews may have had to ask their rabbis certain…
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Fast Forward James Comey Wrongly Claimed Abedin Funneled Clinton Emails To Weiner
(JTA) — FBI Director James Comey reportedly misstated the involvement of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her now-estranged husband Anthony Weiner in the email scandal his office investigated during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey said that Abedin was forwarding hundreds of thousands of emails, some with classified information, to her husband to print…
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Fast Forward Death Threats Scrawled Near Georgetown Jewish Center
(JTA) — A death threat was among the anti-Semitic graffiti found on the Georgetown University campus in a public restroom next to the campus Jewish center. The graffiti was discovered Saturday morning next to the Makóm Jewish gathering space in the Leavey student center of the Washington, D.C., school, The Hoya student newspaper reported. The…
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