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Fast Forward Trump and Kasich Will Skip Republican Jewish Coalition Event
Washington — Donald Trump and John Kasich are skipping a Republican Jewish Coalition forum for presidential candidates. RJC officials told JTA on Monday that Trump, the real estate magnate and front-runner for the Republican presidential nod, and Kasich, the Ohio governor who is running third, will not be able to attend the event the group’s…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Left in Predominantly Jewish Brooklyn Building
The lobby of an apartment building in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. A resident of a six-story building in Borough Park reported the graffiti, which said “F— Jews,” to the New York Police Department’s 66th Precinct on Sunday, JPUpdates reported. The precinct is investigating with the department’s Hate Crime…
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Fast Forward Brandeis President Condemns Swastika Vandalism at Fraternity Event
The interim president of Brandeis University condemned a swastika incident at an off-campus site where a Jewish fraternity was hosting an event. The swastika was outlined on a window at a house where the local chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi was hosting a party on Friday night. Lisa Lynch said in a statement issued Saturday…
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Fast Forward Did Donald Trump Rebuke Jewish Son-in-Law Over Israel Trip Debacle?
Donald Trump’s campaign denied a report that he reprimanded his Jewish son-in-law after a planned visit to Israel fell through because of the candidate’s controversial comments on Muslims. New York magazine, in a profile of the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod, reported Sunday that Trump was upset with Jared Kushner, who…
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Fast Forward Israel Government Gets More Time To Forge Western Wall Prayer Deal
The Supreme Court of Israel gave the government an extra three months to present a plan for egalitarian Jewish prayer at the Western Wall. Sunday’s ruling also declined to issue a temporary order allowing women to use the site’s Torah scrolls in the women’s section in contravention of the orders of the rabbi of the…
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Fast Forward French BDS Activists Lose Hate Speech Appeal
A French appeals court upheld the hate-crime convictions of anti-Israel activists who called at a demonstration for a boycott of the Jewish state. The ruling delivered last week by the French Cassation Court concerned seven activists whom a criminal appeals court in Caen in southern France slapped with a $1,000 fine each and a conviction…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Walks Back Comparison of Donald Trump to Hitler
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders asserted in an interview that he did not compare Donald Trump to Hitler when he warned of a “lunatic …. stirring up racial hatred” during a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin. “No, I did not compare Trump to Hitler,” Sanders told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week. “But…
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Fast Forward Paul Ryan Leads Delegation of Lawmakers to Israel
House Speaker Paul Ryan led a bipartisan delegation of U.S. congressmen who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. “The delegation expressed strong support for Israel,” said a short statement issued Monday by the Prime Minister’s Office following the meeting. Israel is the first foreign country that Ryan, R-Wis., has visited since becoming…
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