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Fast Forward Schumer Asks Trump To Nominate Merrick Garland To Supreme Court
NEW YORK (JTA) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer urged President Donald Trump to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, according to a report in The Washington Post. Schumer, a Jewish Democrat from New York, made the request in a phone call earlier this week, The Post reported. Garland, who also is Jewish, was…
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Fast Forward Illinois Gov. Won’t Call For Vote Against GOP Nazi Candidate
(JTA) — The governor of Illinois has called on a neo-Nazi candidate for a Chicago-area congressional seat to drop out of the race. Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, denounced Arthur Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, but declined to endorse the opposing Democratic candidate. His response differed from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz…
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Fast Forward Chinese Kosher Restaurant Stays Open Despite Bathroom Peeping Scandal
(JTA) — A kosher restaurant in suburban Boston will be allowed to remain open even though one of its owners has been charged with illegally recording his customers as they used the bathroom. Owner Tze Chung, 63, who owns the popular Taam China restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, may have recorded customers up to 20 separate…
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Fast Forward IDF Launches Campaign Against Hamas Catfishing Apps
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces has launched a campaign to prevent its soldiers from being tricked by hackers from terrorist groups attempting to install spyware on their cell phones. The IDF announced on Tuesday that it had launched Operation Broken Heart, so named because operatives pose on social media as attractive females to…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazis Assault Two Pro-Israel Activists In Sweden
(JTA) — Neo-Nazis in Sweden assaulted two pro-Israel activists on Thursday outside a pavilion set up by the Israel-Sweden Friendship Association. Dozens of members of the Nordic Resistance Movement gathered around the pavilion on the island of Gotland, south of Stockholm, for what they said was a “protest demonstration,” the Aftonbladet newspaper reported. One of the…
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Fast Forward White House Says Improved Ties With Israel Has Made U.S. More ‘Beloved’
(JTA) — Improved ties with Israel proves that the United States is more “beloved” around the world than under the previous administration, a White House spokesman said. He also said that Israel was “virtually” thought of as an enemy of the United States under the Obama administration. Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters aboard…
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Fast Forward Claude Lanzmann, Iconic ‘Shoah’ Filmmaker, Dies At 92
(JTA) – Claude Lanzmann, one of the world’s foremost makers of documentary films about the Holocaust, has died. Lanzmann, a French Jew who directed the canonical 1985 film “Shoah,” died at the age of 92 in Paris on Thursday, Le Monde reported. Although he is best known for the 9-hour-long documentary bearing the Hebrew-language name…
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Fast Forward Temple Mount Ban Lifted For Israeli Lawmakers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A ban on all Israeli lawmakers visiting the Temple Mount was lifted. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said in a letter to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein that all lawmakers, including government ministers, will be permitted to visit the Temple Mount once every three months. The decision comes a week after Likud…
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