Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Man Arrested For Swastikas At Penn Station
(JTA) — A Brooklyn man has been arrested for drawing swastikas and other bias graffiti in men’s bathrooms in Penn Station. Pasquale Vargas, 65, is accused of multiple incidents of hate-crime graffiti at Penn Station. Vargas admitted to writing the graffiti during an interview with MTA police, according to the statement. He also was arrested…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Liberman Heads To Washington For Talks With Team Trump
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman will arrive in Washington D.C. for meetings with senior Trump administration officials. Liberman will leave Israel for the United States on Monday evening, his office said in a statement. He is scheduled to meet with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and Secretary of…
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Fast Forward Israel Defeats South Korea To Kick Off World Baseball Classic
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Team Israel defeated Korea in its first game of the finals of the World Baseball Classic. Israel on Monday in Seoul topped Korea 2-1 in the 10th inning. Team Israel had 8 hits to Korea’s 7 in the hard-fought game. The Israeli team is scheduled to play the team from Chinese Taipei…
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Fast Forward Tragic World War II Airman Gets Star Of David On Headstone — 75 Years Later
(JTA) — The headstone of an American soldier killed in World War II was replaced with one bearing a Star of David, according to his wishes. A headstone replacement ceremony was held on Feb. 28 at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, according to a report in the Air Force news…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Insist Toppled Brooklyn Headstones Were Vandalized — Police Eye Neglect
(JTA) — Jewish leaders in New York are disputing the New York Police Department’s finding that 42 headstones toppled in a Brooklyn cemetery are the result of neglect. The headstones reported toppled on Saturday night at the largely Jewish Washington Cemetery originally were thought to have been the work of a vandal or vandals. But police…
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Fast Forward White House Says Return Of Robert Levinson From Iran Is ‘Priority’
(JTA) — The Trump administration said the return of a Jewish American man working as a spy who disappeared from Iran in 2007 remains a priority. Robert Levinson, 68, of Coral Springs, Florida, a consultant for the Central Intelligence Agency, has been missing since disappearing from Iran’s Kish Island during what has since been revealed as…
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Fast Forward Swastika Carved On Door Of Suburban Cleveland Synagogue
(JTA) — A swastika was carved onto the door frame of a synagogue in northeastern Ohio. The swastika was carved at the Agudath B’nai Israel Synagogue in Lorain, Ohio, a suburb located on the West Side of Cleveland. In addition to the swastika, the words “We will rise and gas you,” followed by an expletive,…
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Fast Forward Conservatives Vote 94-8 To Let Synagogues Accept Non-Jews As Members
(JTA) — The umbrella body for Conservative synagogues approved a resolution to allow individual congregations to decide whether to grant membership to non-Jews. The resolution was passed on March 1 during a Special Meeting of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism General Assembly held over the internet with electronic voting. The measure passed overwhelmingly by…
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