Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward White House Condemns New Bomb Threats Against Jewish Sites
(JTA) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer condemned a new wave of bomb threats against Jewish sites, including Jewish community centers and Anti-Defamation League offices. “I want to acknowledge that there’s been an additional wave of threats to Jewish community centers and Anti-Defamation League offices,” Spicer told reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday….
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Life Terror Victim’s Niece Condemns Women’s Strike For Including Convicted Killer In Leadership
(JTA) — The niece of an Israeli killed in a terrorist attack nearly 50 years ago criticized the planned March 8 International Women’s Strike for allowing into a leadership role one of the convicted terrorists that killed her uncle. “What justification is there for Rasmea Odeh, a woman who killed two people (with the intention…
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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg To Direct Pentagon Papers Flick
(JTA) — Director Steven Spielberg has signed on to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a film about the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Hanks will star as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep as publisher Kay Graham, who challenged the federal government in the Supreme Court over the right…
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Fast Forward Parents Of IDF Lone Soldiers Get Discounted Flights To Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The parents of lone soldiers serving in the Israeli military are being offered subsidized airline tickets to the Jewish state. The tickets are being offered by El Al Israel Airlines and Nefesh B’Nefesh, which supports immigrants to Israel. They are available from any gateway city served by El Al to families who…
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Fast Forward Israel Prosecutors Appeal ‘Excessively Lenient’ Sentence For Soldier Who Killed Downed Palestinian
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli military prosecutors filed an appeal of the 18-month jail sentence of an Israeli soldier who shot a downed Palestinian terrorist. Elor Azaria, 20, who was convicted of manslaughter in January in an Israeli military court, was sentenced last month by a panel of three judges at the Israel Defense Forces headquarters…
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Fast Forward Israel Defuses Explosives Near Gaza Border
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli troops defused two explosives found near the security fence on the border with Gaza. The devices discovered on Tuesday “were planted in order to attack IDF troops on the border,” the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. No one was injured in the incident. Earlier Tuesday, Palestinian media reported that Israeli troops and…
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Fast Forward Human Rights Watch Worker Allowed Into Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An American employee of Human Rights Watch was permitted to enter Israel after previously being denied both a tourist and work visa due to the NGO’s alleged anti-Israel bias. Omar Shakir, the new Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, a leading nongovernmental organization, entered Israel on Monday, four days after initially…
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Fast Forward Rochester JCC Evacuated Over Bomb Threat
(JTA) — The Jewish Community Center in Rochester, New York was evacuated early Tuesday morning due to a bomb threat. The evacuation of members and staff was ordered shortly before 6 a.m., the local ABC affiliate 13WHAM reported. Police reportedly were on the scene. The bomb threat comes less than a week after at least…
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