Julie Wiener
By Julie Wiener
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Fast Forward Black Lives Matter Platform Says Israel An ‘Apartheid State’ Committing ‘Genocide’
— The wide-ranging new platform of a coalition growing out of the Black Lives Matter movement includes harsh criticism of Israel, which it describes as an “apartheid state” that, it claims, perpetrates “genocide” against the Palestinian people. Released Monday, the platform of the Movement for Black Lives calls for “an end to the war against Black people”…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Oberlin Prof Suspended From Teaching
— An Oberlin professor whose anti-Semitic social media posts outraged many alumni and faculty earlier this year has been placed on paid leave. Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric, will not teach any courses at the Ohio liberal arts school until an internal investigation is completed, Oberlin President Marvin Krislov announced, the Cleveland Jewish…
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Fast Forward Sexual Abuse and Beatings Indicted at Tel Aviv School
— Six haredi Orthodox teachers were indicted for abusing and assaulting children at the Hasidic school in Tel Aviv where they worked. The teachers, all men, were indicted at Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday, the Times of Israel reported. One, Avraham Rosenfeld, 49, was also charged with sexually assaulting a child under 16, indecent…
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Fast Forward Leaving the Death Camp Pope Says Auschwitz ‘Did Not End’
(JTA) — Human cruelty “did not end in Auschwitz,” Pope Francis said. In Krakow, following his historic visit to the Nazi death camp in Poland Friday, the pope compared contemporary atrocities around the world to the atrocities in Auschwitz, The Associated Press reported. Citing torture and overcrowded prisons, the pope said, “We say, yes, there…
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Fast Forward Single-Sex Swimming Makes Waves in Hasidic New Jersey Housing Complex
— A New Jersey housing community with a majority haredi Orthodox population is angering some homeowners with its stepped-up gender-segregated swimming pool hours. In yet another example of tensions between the Lakewood area’s growing haredi Orthodox population and non-Orthodox residents, several non-Jewish residents at A Country Place are speaking out about the housing complex’s swimming…
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Fast Forward Defense Says Accused Killer in Menachem Stark Murder Was Railroaded
NEW YORK — An expert witness said that the man indicted in the 2014 murder of a controversial Hasidic Brooklyn real estate developer may have been coerced into giving a false confession. Kendel Felix, who is accused of participating in the kidnapping and murder of 39-year-old Menachem Stark, has the psychological profile of others who have made…
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Fast Forward New Jersey Town Wants Probe of Lakewood Ultra-Orthodox ‘Blockbusting’
— A New Jersey township is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate haredi Orthodox community leaders for alleged “blockbusting,” or trying to pressure large numbers of longtime homeowners into selling their property to Orthodox Jews. The incident is the latest example of tensions between a large and growing haredi Orthodox community in…
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Fast Forward South African Jews Drop Ban on Women Singing at Holocaust Ceremony
— Women will no longer be banned from singing at the annual Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. The South African Center for Religious Equality and Diversity, or SACRED, agreed to drop the complaint it filed in April in the Equality Court of the Western Cape High Court against the Cape Town chapter…
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