Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Jews Step Up With Donations For Torched Tampa Mosque — In Good Luck Multiples Of $18
(JTA) — The Muslim man who started a crowdfunding page to help repair a mosque in Tampa damaged in an arson attack realized that many of the donors were Jewish after noticing the donations came in multiples of 18. Adeel Karim set up the “Stand With New Tampa Muslims Against Hate” crowdfunding page on the…
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Fast Forward St. Louis Vandalized Cemetery Town Mulls Anti-Hate-Crime Resolution
(JTA) — The city council of a suburb of St. Louis is considering an anti-hate crime resolution which would create a database of hate crime offenders. The resolution was introduced to the University City council on Monday by Councilman Rod Jennings. Jennings told local media he had been considering introducing such legislation since November, long before…
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Fast Forward Police Evacuate 9 Homes In West Bank Settlement Of Ofra
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Hundreds of Israeli police officers evacuated three of nine homes slated to be demolished in a West Bank settlement. The homes located in the West Bank settlement of Ofra were ordered demolished by Israel’s Supreme Court after it was determined that they were built on Palestinian-owned land. The evacuation began Tuesday…
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Fast Forward Man Who Attacked Brooklyn Jewish Y Chief At Nets Game Flees To Turkey
(JTA) — A New York man who was convicted of assaulting the head of the Brooklyn Jewish Y at a basketball game in 2014 has fled the country for Turkey. Shawn Schraeder, 27, of Queens, failed to show up Thursday for his first appointment with probation officials. A spokeswoman for the Department of Probation told…
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Fast Forward Jewish Federations Chief Endorses David Friedman For Israel Envoy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Federations of North America endorsed David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel. “I believe he’s a very intelligent individual, and I think he’ll be a good representative if he is confirmed,” Richard Sandler, chair of the board of trustees of the major umbrella group said, Haaretz…
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Fast Forward 200 Attend Funeral Of Holocaust Survivor They Never Knew
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 200 Israelis attended the funeral of a complete stranger — a Holocaust survivor from the Canary Islands who was buried in a Tel Aviv cemetery. Hilde Nathan’s final wish was to be laid to rest in Israel alongside her mother, the United With Israel organization said on its website. Nathan, who…
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Fast Forward Fresh Batch Of Bomb Threats Hit 8 JCC’s and Day Schools
(JTA) — At least eight Jewish community centers and Jewish day schools across the country received bomb threats on Monday in the latest wave of threats to hit Jewish institutions. The incidents are the fifth wave of such threats in less than two months. Among the affected JCCS are Asheville, North Carolina, and Davie, Florida, both…
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Fast Forward Israeli Vigilante Gets 11 Years For Stabbing Jew He Thought Was An Arab
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A man who stabbed a fellow Jewish-Israeli in a suburban Haifa parking lot after mistaking him for an Arab was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his attempted murder conviction. Shlomo Pinto, of Kiryat Ata, was sentenced on Monday in Haifa District court for the attack, which took place in October…
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