Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward A $149 Flight To Israel? Wow, Don’t Believe The Hype.
(JTA) — Wow, what a deal! Or not? The headlines screamed at me from every Israeli newspaper, in both English and Hebrew: only $149 for a flight from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv to New York on WOW air. The Iceland-based airline has plastered Israel with advertisements featuring its distinctive purplish logo for the new…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump’s Rabbi Throws Out First Pitch — Mets Lose 7-0
(JTA) — Perhaps the injury-plagued New York Mets thought that having a rabbi throw out the first pitch before a game would bring some divine intervention. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the prominent modern Orthodox rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism, made the ceremonial toss at the Mets-Marlins game on Sunday to a smattering of applause at…
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Fast Forward Princeton Jewish Center Bans Breaking The Silence Exhibit
(JTA) — The Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University denied the local chapter of J Street U space to hold an exhibition created by the left-wing Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence. The J Street U chapter decided to go forward with the exhibit, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, in another campus space, despite…
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Fast Forward Jews Don’t Want To Live Near Arab Israelis — And Feeling’s Mutual
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A majority of Jewish Israelis and Arab Israelis feel comfortable living in Israel as “who they are,” but do not think they should live together in the same neighborhoods, a new survey finds. The Jewish People Policy Institute, or JPPI, on Wednesday released its second annual Pluralism Index. The index, according to…
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Fast Forward Did Ivanka Skip White House Easter Egg Roll Because She’s Jewish?
(JTA) — Covering the White House Easter Egg Roll live, CNN reporter John Berman noted that Ivanka Trump was not in attendance. Maybe, he speculated, it was because she’s Jewish. “I saw Tiffany Trump just there before. Not Ivanka or Jared Kushner. Of course, Ivanka Trump is Jewish,” he said during Monday’s festivities. “I don’t know…
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Fast Forward San Diego Hilton Cancels $1M Passover Trip For 700
(JTA) — A Hilton hotel in Southern California reportedly has canceled a Passover trip for 700 New Yorkers, despite a $1 million deposit, the organizer said. The New York Post’s Page Six reported Wednesday that the 10-day trip to the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in San Diego was booked in November, according to the organizer,…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Mayor Scraps Do-Over Lecture At San Francisco State
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat canceled a lecture he was to deliver at San Francisco State University a year after his address at the school was drowned out by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. In a statement Wednesday announcing his decision to cancel the lecture for the following day, Barkat noted that in April 2016, “dozens…
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Fast Forward Germany Pays $1.28 Million To Heir Of Nazi-Looted ‘Judgment Of Paris’
(JTA) — A painting looted by the Nazis from a Jewish collector will continue to hang in a German museum after the German government and a private foundation paid the heirs of the former Jewish owner. The German government announced Friday that $1.28 million had been transferred to an heir of Hans Hess in compensation…
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