Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone Pushes Back On Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Ahead of a British Labour Party disciplinary hearing, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone has defended himself against accusations of anti-Semitism. He also denied saying that Hitler was a Zionist, but said that he just claimed that Nazi policy “had the effect of supporting” Zionism. Livingstone on Tuesday posted a 17-page summary of the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Whose Wife Was Killed In 2016 Terror Attack Announces Engagement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Natan Meir, whose wife Dafna was killed in a terror attack in their home, announced that he is engaged to be married. Meir announced Monday evening on social media that he is engaged to Jerusalem native Zohar Morgenstern. The announcement comes over a year after the terror attack in the West Bank…
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Fast Forward Paraguay Orders More Humane Kosher Slaughter After Forward Expose
(JTA) — The government of Paraguay will move to require more humane ways of kosher slaughter following a Forward expose about questionable practices. Slaughterhouses will have to stop using the shackle-and-hoist method of slaughter and instead use the method of rotating pens, which is seen as more humane, The Jerusalem Post reported. The international organization…
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Fast Forward Bar Refaeli Is Pregnant With Child No. 2
(JTA) — Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli is pregnant with her second child. “Something’s cooking,” she wrote in a post on Instagram alongside a photo of her taking a selfie of her bare midriff, which shows a small baby bump. Something’s cooking … A post shared by Bar Refaeli (@barrefaeli) on Mar 28, 2017 at 6:29am…
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Fast Forward IDF Rabbi Admits Comments On Female Soldiers ‘Inappropriate’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbinic head of a religious Zionist pre-military yeshiva in the West Bank who said that the Israeli army drives female soldiers “crazy” and upsets their Jewishness acknowledged that he was wrong to denigrate female solders. Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, who runs the Bnei David academy in the Eli settlement, in a letter to…
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Fast Forward Swastikas And ‘White Power’ Graffiti Discovered At Phoenix High School
(JTA) — Graffiti including swastikas and the words “white power” were discovered on the auditorium of a Phoenix high school. The vandalism on the outside walls of the auditorium at Pinnacle High is being investigated by the police bias crime unit, the Arizona Jewish News reported. “No place for hate in Phoenix,” the city’s mayor, Greg Stanton,…
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Fast Forward Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, Earned Doctorate 8 Decades After Nazis Denied Her, Dies At 104
(JTA) — Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, a German neonatologist who passed her doctoral defense exam nearly eight decades after she was denied the opportunity by the Nazis, has died at 104. She reportedly died Thursday in Berlin. A funeral will be held in the German capital in May, her son told The Associated Press. Syllm-Rapoport, a former…
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Fast Forward Arizona Teen Apologizes For Twisting Menorah Into Swastika
(JTA) — An Arizona teenager arrested for twisting a menorah in the front yard of a family’s home into a swastika posted an apology on Facebook. Clive Jamar Wilson, 19, one of four teens arrested on March 17 for the Dec. 30 incident, told the Ellis family of Chandler that he was sorry, the East Valley Tribune…
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