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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Says Donald ‘Very Supportive’ of Conversion to Judaism
Ivanka Trump said her father, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, was fully supportive of her conversion to Judaism. “My father was very supportive,” she said at a CNN town hall meeting featuring the presidential candidate and his family broadcast Tuesday evening. “He knows me. He knows and he trusts my judgment. When I make decisions,…
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Fast Forward Secret Jewish Wedding Shatters Temple Mount Status Quo
A Jerusalem-based organization that wants to build a third temple on the Temple Mount claims it held a secret Jewish wedding there, which goes against the status quo at the site holy to Jews and Muslims. The ceremony consisted of the groom reciting the necessary declaration and placing a ring on the bride’s finger while…
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Fast Forward Boston Groups Slam ‘Disrespectful’ Jewish Activists at Meeting on Newton Bigotry
Two Boston-area Jewish organizations criticized Jewish activists for disrupting a meeting called to discuss prejudice, including anti-Semitism and racism. By trying to make the April 7 meeting in Newton, Massachusetts, only about anti-Semitism, the Jewish activists shifted its focus to the conduct of the meeting itself, the American Jewish Committee Boston and the Jewish Community…
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Fast Forward Australia Lawyer Who Chided Victim for Reporting Sex Abuse Is Banned
Melbourne attorney Alex Lewenberg has been banned from practice for 15 months for rebuking a victim of child sexual abuse who cooperated with police on the basis that “Jewish people should not assist police investigating another Jewish person.” Lewenberg made the comments twice in 2011 while representing now-convicted child sex abuser David Cyprys, who is…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Austrian Leader Tours Israel — With Jewish Sidekick
The leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is touring Israel, four years after he angered many Jews by posting an anti-Semitic cartoon on his Facebook page. Heinz-Christian Strache visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday and said he was in the country on an official visit at the invitation of the…
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Fast Forward 12 Jewish New York City Council Members Back Hillary Clinton
Twelve members of the New York City Council’s 14-member Jewish caucus have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The City Council members signed a joint statement on Tuesday, Jewish Insider reported. The signers are David Greenfield, Stephen Levin, Alan Maisel and Mark Treyger from Brooklyn; Barry Grodenchick, Daniel Garodnick, Karen Koslowitz and Rory Lancman from Queens;…
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Fast Forward 174 Oberlin Profs Denounce Anti-Semitism After Colleague’s Facebook Rants
A letter condemning an Oberlin professor’s anti-Semitic Facebook posts has reportedly garnered signatures from the majority of the Ohio college’s faculty members, but has generated criticism from some professors of Africana studies. Politics professor Marc Blecher, one of the letter’s organizers and drafters, told JTA in an email that 174 faculty members have signed the…
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Fast Forward Israel School Scraps Death Camp Trips Amid Fears of Right Wing Radicalization
A Tel Aviv high school principal will no longer send pupils on an annual educational trip to former concentration camps in Poland because of its perceived “ultranationalist” influence on the students. Zeev Dagani, principal of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, also cited high costs and declining participation in explaining his decision, Haaretz reported Sunday. “Some of…
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