Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Dublin College Apologizes After Protesters Cancel Speech By Israel Ambassador
(JTA) — A college in Dublin said it “regrets” the cancellation of an appearance by the Israeli ambassador to Ireland following pro-Palestinian protests. The question and answer session with Amb. Ze’ev Boker and the Society for International Affairs, or SOFIA, on the campus of Trinity College in Dublin had been scheduled for Monday night. The…
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Fast Forward Waze Spawns Massive Israel Traffic Jam After (False) Warning Of Closed Highway
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli drivers avoided the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway during rush hour on Wednesday morning after the Waze navigation app incorrectly told them the road was closed. The error indicating that Route 1 was closed caused major traffic jams on the alternative route, Route 443, the Times of Israel reported. Waze called the…
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Fast Forward Knesset Sticks With ‘Modest’ Short Skirt Ban — But Eases Enforcement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset will not alter the Knesset dress code barring “short skirts and short dresses.” But a spokesman Tuesday said a new mode of enforcement will be put into place, including issuing warnings before denying a Knesset employee entry to the parliamentary building, the Times of Israel reported. According to the Knesset website, “entrance…
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Fast Forward Bulgarian Neo-Nazis Rally In Capital Despite Municipal Ban
(JTA) — An annual neo-Nazi rally was held in the capital of Bulgaria despite a municipal ban. The Lukov March, which celebrates the Bulgarian alliance with Nazi Germany, went off as scheduled on Saturday night in Sofia despite the ban issued by Mayor Yordanka Fandakova. The rally honoring the then-Bulgarian war minister Hristo Lukov, who…
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Fast Forward Frisch School Colleagues Plead With Jared Kushner To Halt Refugee Ban
(JTA) — Some 180 alumni and former staff of a New Jersey yeshiva high school implored graduate Jared Kushner to use his influence with President Donald Trump, his father-in-law, to ease the path for refugees coming to the United States. In the open letter from “members of the Frisch School Community,” the signatories expressed “alarm”…
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Fast Forward Wiesenthal Center Calls For Task Force To Probe JCC Bomb Threats
(JTA) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to set up a task force to catch the callers who have made false bomb threats to Jewish community centers across the country. In its statement issued Tuesday, the Jewish human rights NGO said it also called on President Donald Trump to outline his…
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Fast Forward Trump Condemns Anti-Semitism In Strongest Terms Yet
(JTA) — President Donald Trump denounced anti-Semitism a day after bomb threats to at least 10 Jewish community centers across the country and a large-scale cemetery vandalism in the St. Louis area. Under pressure to condemn anti-Semitism in the wake of what has been called an uptick in incidents since he was elected, Trump told…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Call On Trump To Condemn JCC Bomb Threats, Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Jewish groups called on President Donald Trump to condemn the wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers across the country, and to speak out against anti-Semitism. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt applauded a tweet by First Daughter Ivanka Trump in which she called for the protection of Jewish institutions and used…
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