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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Found On Princeton Campus
(JTA) — Fliers with anti-Semitic, racist and anti-immigrant messages were posted on the campus of Princeton University. The fliers were discovered in at least four areas of the campus on Thursday, the Daily Princetonian student newspaper reported, including on the main entrance of the campus Center for Jewish Life. The person posting the fliers was wearing dark…
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Fast Forward JCC Hoax Case Gets Weirder With ‘Rent-A-Threat’ Charges
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli-American teen accused of making threats against Jewish community centers throughout the United States was charged in a Tel Aviv court with bizarre counts including a ‘rent=a=threat’ service. The teen from Ashkelon in southern Israel, let customers could order a threat of a “massacre at a private home” for $40, a…
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Fast Forward ‘Fed Up’ Palestinian Woman Stabbed Isreali Soldier In Death Wish
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian woman who stabbed a female soldier at a West Bank checkpoint told investigators that she committed the attack because she wanted Israeli security forces to kill her. The woman, identified by the Shin Bet security service as Asia Kabaneh, 41, from Duma in the Nablus area, approached a female security officer…
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Fast Forward Trump Mourns Jewish Victims In Holocaust Remembrance Speech
NEW YORK (JTA) – President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress. Given via prerecorded video at the opening dinner of the WJC’s Plenary Assembly in New York City Sunday night, Trump’s remarks honed close to Jewish communal talking points….
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Surge By 86%
(JTA) – Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by more than one-third in 2016 and shot up 86 percent in the first three months of 2017, the Anti-Defamation League reported. There has been a massive increase in harassment of American Jews, largely since November, and at least 34 incidents linked to the presidential election…
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Fast Forward UN Chief Says Denial Of Israel’s Right To Exist Is ‘Anti-Semitism’
NEW YORK (JTA) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres vowed to take action to end anti-Semitism, and called denial of Israel’s right to exist a modern form of anti-Jewish hatred. In a speech Sunday night at the World Jewish Congress’ Plenary Assembly in New York, Guterres said he could not control all expressions of bias…
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News French Jews ‘Concerned’ Over Le Pen Success In France Vote
(JTA) — Leaders of French Jewry had mixed reactions to the success of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French presidential elections. “Satisfaction and concern,” Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, wrote on Twitter Sunday after exit polls showed that Macron, a centrist…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Says Allies Could Have Saved 4 Million Jews From Holocaust
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel opened its Holocaust Remembrance Day with a ceremony during which six Israeli Holocaust survivors lit torches in memory of the six million Jews who died in the Shoah 70 years ago. The ceremony was held on Sunday night at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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