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Fast Forward IDF Fires Patriot Missile At Syrian Drone
(JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces fired a Patriot missile at an unmanned drone that approached Israeli airspace from Syria. The IDF was unable to verify whether the drone was hit. It retreated from the border, the IDF said. A commander in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad said the unmanned aerial vehicle…
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Fast Forward Haredi Men Delay El Al Flight, Refuse To Sit Next To Women
(JTA) — An El Al Airlines flight from New York to Israel was delayed by more than an hour after four Haredi Orthodox men refused to take their assigned seats next to women. The incident took place on Thursday night and was recounted in a Facebook post by one of the passengers on the flight,…
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Fast Forward Echoes Of Holocaust Policies As Italians Target Roma
(JTA) (JTA) — When Italy’s interior minister recommended creating a “registry” of Roma, his remark was merely the latest addition to a long list of anti-Roma statements by senior European leaders. In March, Janos Lazar, the right-hand man for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said: “Once we let them in, they will take over.” In…
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Fast Forward Populist Right-Wing Lawmaker Claims Jews Are Not Swedes
(JTA) — A lawmaker for a populist right-wing party in Sweden has been accused of racism after writing on Facebook that Jews and members of the Sami minority are not Swedes. Bjorn Soder, who represents the Sweden Democrats party at the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, maintains that in his post Sunday he never questioned minorities’ rights as…
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Fast Forward Barred From Spinoff: ‘Roseanne’ Will Go On Without Eponymous Actress
(JTA) – ABC rehired most of the cast of the hit series “Roseanne,” but not its star, Roseanne Barr, which prompted the network to cancel the show by posting racist comments on social media. The rehires will play in a spin-off series that may be called “The Conners,” the Hollywood Reporter reported Thursday. “Roseanne” was…
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Fast Forward South African Jews Hit By ‘Flurry Of Viciously Anti-Semitic’ Incidents
(JTA) — Representatives of South Africa’s Jewish community said they are seeing an uptick in anti-Semitic rhetoric in real life and on social media. The South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies, or SAJBD, said this in a statement, warning that, “Over the past 24 hours, a flurry of viciously antisemitic and threatening attacks have been…
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Fast Forward British Paper Apologizes For Op-Ed Blaming ‘Israel’s Crimes’ For Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — A far-left British newspaper that regularly features articles by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn apologized for running an op-ed linking rising anti-Semitism to “Israel’s crimes.” On Wednesday, The Morning Star pulled offline an article titled “Rising Anti-Semitism Cannot be Tackled without Addressing Israel’s Crimes.” “This article has been removed from the website as…
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Fast Forward Number Of Jews Deemed By Rabbinical Courts As Not Jewish Doubled
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The number of people rejected as being not Jewish for the purposes of marriage in Israel appears to have more than doubled in the past seven years, according to data from the country’s rabbinical courts. In 2010, the number of Jews who registered to marry in Israel and then had their Jewish…
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