Juliana Kaplan
By Juliana Kaplan
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Fast Forward National Council Of Jewish Women Relocating To DC, CEO Departing
The National Council of Jewish Women will relocate their headquarters from New York to DC this September. NCJW announced in a press release on Wednesday that the move will “better position the organization for its critical policy and advocacy work advancing social and economic justice for women, children, and families.” NCJW CEO Nancy Kaufman will…
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Fast Forward Ari Shavit Calls New Accusation Against Him ‘Blood Libel’
Author and journalist Ari Shavit called new sexual assault accusations against him “blood libel” on Israeli army radio station Galatz on Monday. “This is a blood libel,” he told host Yael Dan in Hebrew. “Murder in cold blood, [the accuser] shed my blood and my daughter’s blood.” Shavit was responding to an account by an…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Most Retweeted Tweet Ever Praised Trump’s Wall
A new report from the research firm Twiplomacy found that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most retweeted tweet ever lauded President Trump’s plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Netanyahu wrote, evoking…
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Fast Forward Times Editor Admits Paper Went Overboard On ‘Cranky White Guy’ Alan Dershowitz
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet admitted the paper has had too much coverage of lawyer Alan Dershowitz, The Daily Beast reported. After Dershowitz, an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School, wrote an op-ed for The Hill lamenting how his liberal friends on Martha’s Vineyard shunned him for his defense of President Trump, the…
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Breaking News California Democratic Candidate Praised Farrakhan On Facebook
A Democratic candidate for California’s state assembly praised the anti-Semitic and homophobic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Facebook and accused Israel of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians. Maria Estrada is running in District 63 in Los Angeles’ southeast suburbs. In a comment last year on a thread about Farrakhan’s infamous interview with Mike…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller Dumps $80 Worth Of Sushi After Being Heckled
After getting heckled yet again at a restaurant, White House senior advisor Stephen Miller took action by throwing away the $80 worth of sushi he had purchased, New York Magazine reported. Miller told colleagues that one night, after ordering $80 worth of takeout sushi from a nearby restaurant, a bartender followed him out and yelled…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Group Tried To Push Out Union Teachers From Religious Schools
A top official from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish advocacy group Agudath Israel lobbied the New York Department of Education to remove union teachers from religious schools, the New York Post reported last week. Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, representing a “a coalition of Muslim, Jewish and Christian schools,” reportedly lobbied last month to remove 244 Union Federation…
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Fast Forward Two GOP Candidates Spew Hate On Neo-Nazi Podcasts
Two different GOP candidates appeared on neo-Nazi podcasts within the past two weeks, The Daily Beast reports. North Carolina Republican primary winner Russell Walker appeared on the white supremacist Stormfront Action podcast on Thursday. Walker has previously said that he believes Jews descend from Satan, and that God was a “racist” and “white supremacist.” The…
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