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Fast Forward 55 House Democrats Urge Trump To Fire Aide Sebastian Gorka Over Far-Right Ties
(JTA) — Fifty-five Democratic lawmakers signed on to a letter urging President Donald Trump to dismiss Sebastian Gorka, an adviser accused of being a member of a Hungarian far-right nationalist group. Among the nine Congress members leading the effort, five are Jewish: Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Jerrold Nadler of New York, Bradley Schneider of…
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Fast Forward ADL Head Urges Creation Of Hate Crime Task Force
(JTA) — The national director of the Anti-Defamation League urged the establishing of a federal task force to coordinate hate crimes responses across the executive branch in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Jonathan Greenblatt set forth a series of policy recommendations during a Tuesday hearing on an increase in religious hate crimes, according to…
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Fast Forward New Jersey Rabbi Charged With Sexual Assault Of 12-Year-Old Boy
A Jewish teacher and youth group director is being held in central New Jersey for the alleged sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy. Rabbi Menachem Chinn was arrested April 18 and charged with assaulting the boy at the teacher’s home in Marlboro in 2012. A judge ordered that Chinn remain in custody following an April…
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Fast Forward UNESCO Votes 22-10 To Condemn Israel’s Control Over Jerusalem
NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Nations’ cultural agency voted to condemn Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem. UNESCO — the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — passed a resolution called “Occupied Palestine” by a vote of 22-10, with 26 countries abstaining or absent, on Tuesday. The resolution calls on Israel to rescind any “legislative and…
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Fast Forward Jewish Federations Praise Proposed Boost In Security Funding
(JTA) — Jewish federations lauded a proposed increase in security grant funding that helps protect Jewish institutions. Congress reached an agreement Sunday night that would increase funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program by $5 million from the 2016 allocation, the federations said in a Monday statement. The House and the…
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Fast Forward Controversial Philippines President Says ‘Supposed To Go To Israel’ — Not U.S.
(JTA) — The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, told President Donald Trump that he may not be able to visit the White House because he is “supposed to go to” Israel and Russia. Responding to Trump’s invitation on Saturday to visit the United States, Duterte said on Monday, “I cannot make any definite promise. I’m supposed to go to Russia;…
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Fast Forward Reform Focuses On ‘New Vulnerability’ Under Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Reform movement leader described a “new sense of vulnerability” in the United States at the movement’s biennial Consultation on Conscience. “We share a new sense of vulnerability,” Rabbi Jonah Pesner, the director of Reform’s Religious Action Center, said Sunday in opening remarks. “We see refugees turned away at our borders, we…
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Fast Forward Arab Israelis Happier Than Jews With Israeli Life, Poll Shows
(JTA) — Arab Israelis are more likely to describe Israel’s “overall situation” as good than their Jewish counterparts, a survey found. Some 66 percent of Arab Israelis said their country’s situation was “good” or “very good,” according to a survey released Sunday by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University. Only 43.9 percent of Israeli Jews agreed with…
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