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Food Gillibrand Urges More Kosher Food to Food Banks
JTA — U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand asked the Department of Agriculture about reports of shortages of halal and kosher food at food banks. “I am deeply concerned by reports of shortages of Kosher and Halal foods available to the many observant individuals and families facing hunger and food insecurity in New York and throughout our…
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Fast Forward Human Bones Unearthed at Plaszow Concentration Camp in Poland
A construction crew unearthed bones at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, near Krakow. The workers were repairing a decades-old gas pipeline on the property last week adjacent to the former funeral home of a Jewish cemetery on which the camp was established during World War II. The Jewish community of…
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Fast Forward Rob Lowe Says California Tax Board Member Used Term ‘Jew Down’
Actor Rob Lowe alleged that an elected member of a California state board made a slur against Jews during a private meeting over a tax issue. Lowe made the allegation last week over comments made last year by Board of Equalization member Jerome Horton following the board’s decision to lower the income tax Lowe owed…
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Fast Forward Sidney Blumenthal Blasts Bibi for ‘Relentless Disparagement’ of Hillary Clinton
An email from a longtime Hillary Clinton adviser reported the “relentless disparagement” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the then-U.S. secretary of state at a closed-door meeting of AIPAC in 2010. The email from journalist Sidney Blumenthal was among a batch of emails from Clinton’s computer released Monday by the State Department. They are…
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Fast Forward Americans Sympathetic to Israel Over Palestinians by 62%-to-15%
Americans remain overwhelmingly sympathetic to Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a new Gallup poll shows, with those over 50 and Republicans the most supportive. Some 62 percent of Americans surveyed said they are more sympathetic to the Israelis, while 15 percent favored the Palestinians. Another 23 percent said they are sympathetic to neither, both or…
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Fast Forward Did Waze App Lead Israeli Soldiers Into Fierce West Bank Firefight?
A Palestinian man was killed and ten security officers were injured during the rescue of two Israeli soldiers who accidentally entered a Palestinian refugee camp after apparently being directed there by the Waze Smartphone app. The two soldiers, an army driver and squad commander who were in uniform and carrying ammunition, entered the Qalandiyah refugee…
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Fast Forward Former Toronto Day School Teacher Hit With Sex Charges
A former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools has been charged with a variety of sex offenses. Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, was charged in December with one count of possessing child pornography. At the time, police encouraged his former students to come forward. On Feb. 24, police arrested him again and charged him with…
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Fast Forward Supremes Reject Jewish Inmate’s ‘No Prayer Group’ Discrimination Claim
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take a case filed by a Jewish inmate accusing North Carolina prison officials of discrimination because they would not allow him to form a prayer and study group. The court did not explain its decision Monday not to hear Israel Ben-Levi’s case, The Associated Press reported. In a dissenting…
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