Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Reconstructionist Rabbis Affirm Full Inclusion Of Transgender Jews
(JTA) — The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association approved a resolution affirming the full equality of transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals. The resolution was approved Tuesday at the association’s annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, which ends on Wednesday. Non-binary individuals identify as neither male nor female. The resolution commits the RRA to work for “full inclusion,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Teen Suspected Of JCC Bomb Threats Ordered Held In Jail
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli court ordered the Israeli-American teen arrested on suspicion of calling in more than 100 bomb threats to JCCs and Jewish institutions held in custody for another week. The suspect, 19, appeared Wednesday in Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s Court. His father, who had been detained on suspicion that he knew about his…
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Fast Forward 2 British Teens Fined $500 For Stealing Auschwitz Artifacts
(JTA) – Two British teens who tried to steal items from the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum appeared in a Polish court and were fined. Museum guards stopped the teens, both 19 and from Hertfordshire in England, while they were on a trip with the private Perse School in Cambridge. The teens were found to have hidden…
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Fast Forward Arizona Fliers Accuse Jews Of Concocting Anti-Semitic Hoaxes
(JTA) — Fliers accusing Jews of creating anti-Semitic hoaxes were left in neighborhoods of Scottsdale, Arizona. The fliers reference the fact that a teen in Israel, believed to be Jewish, was arrested in connection with the threats made to nearly 150 Jewish community centers and Jewish institutions in the U.S. “Why do Jews feel the…
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Fast Forward Swastika Scrawled At High School In Wealthy Connecticut Suburb
(JTA) — A swastika, and racist and anti-Semitic graffiti, was found on the campus of a high school in a wealthy Connecticut suburb. In an emailed letter to parents and students of Ridgefield High School, Principal Stacey Gross said such acts are a blow to the school’s striving to be inclusive. “I know that you…
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Fast Forward 13-Year-Old Boy Charged With Rock-Throwing Attack On Philadelphia Synagogue
(JTA) — A 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with throwing a rock through a stained glass window at a Philadelphia synagogue. The incident that occurred on Sunday was the third time since December that baseball-sized rocks have been thrown through the stained-glass windows of Temple Menorah Keneseth Chai, a nearly century-old Conservative synagogue in…
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Fast Forward St. Louis Man Accused Of 8 Bomb Threats Will Remain In Jail
(JTA) — A former journalist from St. Louis accused of making at least eight bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and the Anti-Defamation League appeared in federal court in New York and did not request bail. Juan Thompson, 31, who made some of the threats in the name of a former romantic partner he had…
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Fast Forward Diaspora Jew To Light One Of Israel’s Independence Day Torches
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the first time, a Diaspora Jew will be invited to light one of the torches honoring Israeli Independence Day. Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev announced earlier this week that one of the 12 torch lighters will be a representative of Diaspora Jewry as a symbol of Jewish unity. Selecting…
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