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Fast Forward Did Israel Allow Informant On Jewish Extremists To Commit Suicide?
(JTA) — The family of an Israeli government informant on Jewish extremists who killed himself is demanding authorities investigate their agents’ failure to prevent the suicide. The 20-year-old informant, identified in the Israeli media only as A, hanged himself at the Havat Gilad West Bank outpost shortly after telling his handler at the Israel Security…
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Fast Forward Richard Pipes, Reagan Aide And Historian, Dies At 94
(JTA) — Richard Pipes, the author of a monumental series of historical works on Russia and a top advisor to the Reagan administration, died in Cambridge at the age of 94. His son Daniel confirmed the death, the New York Times reported. Pipes, who spent his entire academic career at Harvard, took his place in…
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Fast Forward British Columnist Calls Nazi Troops The Heroes Of D-Day
(JTA) — A far-right race baiter who works as a columnist for a respected weekly British current affairs magazine wrote a piece sympathizing with the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany. In the column by Taki Theodoracopulos, a Greek writer who lives in London and New York, the author asks readers to feel…
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Fast Forward Betsy DeVos Visits 2 Orthodox Schools In New York — And No Public Ones
(JTA) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited two yeshiva high schools in New York this week, amid allegations that such schools fail to provide an appropriate secular education. “Secretary DeVos made these historic visits to better understand Jewish education, a unique and time-honored tradition, within the diversity of the American educational tapestry,” said Rabbi Abba…
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Fast Forward Argentina Teacher Told Class That Hitler Did ‘Good Things’
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A history and citizenship teacher in a Catholic high school in a Buenos Aires neighborhood repeated anti-Semitic stereotypes and said Hitler did “good things” in a lesson caught on camera. Teacher Denise Yanet Evequoz told her students that Europe was “always anti-Semitic” and said that Hitler was demonized when the United States…
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Fast Forward ‘Jews Must Be Saved’ Pastor Was Picked By Ambassador For Jerusalem Embassy Prayer
(JTA) — The Dallas pastor who said all Jews will go to hell was chosen by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman to deliver a prayer at the Jerusalem embassy dedication, the State Department said. Robert Jeffress, the pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch, is a Fox News contributor, an outspoken supporter of President Donald…
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Fast Forward More Than 1,000 Religious Leaders Urge Pompeo To Name Anti-Semitism Monitor
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than a thousand lay and clergy leaders across a range of faiths signed a petition urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to name an anti-Semitism monitor. “Around the world, violent and even lethal attacks have been made on Jews and Jewish institutions; physical harassment of Jews who wear a kippah in…
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Fast Forward Human Rights Watch Sues To Stop Israel From Deporting Local Director
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Human Rights Watch sued Israel’s Interior Ministry to prevent its local director from being deported over his past involvement in the BDS movement. The NGO filed the lawsuit in Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday in order to keep its director of Israel/Palestine, Omar Shakir, from being deported after his work permit was…
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