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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Makes Comeback On New York Subway
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti is the top hate crime found on New York City subways so far this year. Some 22 of 31 hate crimes that took place on the subway this year targeted Jews, the New York Police Department’s Transit Bureau said Tuesday in a report to the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the New York…
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Fast Forward Florida Guy Tells Jewish Woman: ‘Get Over Hitler’
(JTA) — A woman told police in Palm Beach, Florida that a man in a hotel bar told her to “get over Hitler” and physically pushed her when she ignored him. The man, identified by local media as Clifford Scholz, 73, also said he was descended from “German royalty.” Scholz, who was arrested on Saturday hours…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Tries Stabbing At West Bank Junction — A Day After Cousin
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teen was shot and critically injured after an attempted stabbing attack at the same West Bank junction where a similar attack occurred a day earlier. The assailants in the two attacks were later identified in Palestinian media as relatives. The Palestinian teen on Wednesday afternoon ran toward soldiers stationed near the…
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Fast Forward Minnesota Lawmakers Vote 57-8 For Anti-BDS Measure
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Both houses in Minnesota’s legislature passed laws banning state dealings with companies that participate in the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Now that the state Senate on Monday passed its anti-BDS bill, 57-8, it will be reconciled with a similar bill passed earlier in the session by the state House, 98-28, and…
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Fast Forward Obama White House Freed Nuclear Smuggler In Iran Deal Trade-Off
(JTA) — The Obama administration’s January 2016 prisoner exchange with Iran allegedly involved dropping prosecutions against more Iranian fugitives than previously known, including a top procurer of material with nuclear applications. Some of the seven men freed in the exchange were accused by the Justice Department of posing threats to national security. In addition, the Justice…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Visits Holocaust Memorial After Rocky Women’s Summit
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump visited a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, hours after she was booed at the G20 women’s summit in the German capital for defending her father’s record on advocacy for women’s rights. Trump visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe late on Tuesday afternoon, walking through the concrete slabs or “stelae” with…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Calls For Ban On Ritual Slaughter
(JTA) – Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said she would ban halal slaughter of animals if she is elected, along with any other method without stunning. Le Pen, who won 21.5 percent of the vote in the first round of the elections Sunday, on Tuesday made the statement on halal…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Shot During Alleged Stabbing Attack At West Bank Junction
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli troops shot a Palestinian man who was trying to stab soldiers near an Israeli military base in the West Bank. No soldiers were injured in the Tuesday afternoon attack at the Hawara Junction, the headquarters of the military’s Samaria Regional Brigade near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. The assailant was treated…
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