Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Muslim Rights Group Offers $5K Reward For Information On JCC Bomb Threats
(JTA) — A Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who made false bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, made the offer on Monday, hours after bomb threats were called in to…
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Fast Forward Protests Erupt After Israeli Soldier Who Shot Downed Palestinian Gets 18-Month Sentence
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An Israeli soldier who shot a downed Palestinian terrorist was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Elor Azaria, 20, who was convicted last month in an Israeli court of manslaughter, was sentenced on Tuesday by a panel of three judges at the Israel Defense Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv. The judges also…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Historian Yaffa Eliach’s Collection Dedicated At Yad Vashem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The personal collection of Holocaust documentation of survivor and historian Prof. Yaffa Eliach was dedicated at the Yad Vashem memorial and museum in Jerusalem. Eliach dedicated her life to documenting the events and victims of the Holocaust, particularly the pre-World War II life in her birthplace, the Lithuanian town of Eishishok. Eliach…
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Fast Forward Isaac Herzog Held Unity Talks After Netanyahu’s Secret Summit With Arab Leaders
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said he entered into negotiations to join a unity government a year ago on the basis of a secret regional peace initiative bring negotiated at the time. Herzog, head of the Zionist Union, told American Jewish leaders on Monday that he demanded a total freeze on settlement…
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Fast Forward Fresh Wave Of Bomb Threats Hits 10 More JCC’s On Presidents Day
(JTA) — At least 10 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with bomb threats on Monday, for the fourth time in five weeks. The threats have been called in to JCCs across the country, according to Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network — an affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North…
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News Israeli NBA Star Set To Become A Pelican
(JTA) — Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the National Basketball Association, reportedly is being traded from the Sacramento Kings to the New Orleans Pelicans. The trade, which is set to be announced later on Monday, is part of a five-player trade which will see All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins heading with Casspi to New…
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Fast Forward San Francisco Supervisor Demands Apology For Mayor’s ‘Gestapo’ Gibe
(JTA) — The San Francisco city supervisor has demanded a personal apology from the city’s mayor for a text the mayor sent to his top staff people comparing Aaron Peskin to the Gestapo. In a private group text, Mayor Ed Lee used the word “gestapo” to describe legislation backed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Busted For Tel Aviv Bus Attack Plot
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli citizen was arrested, accused of plotting bus bombings targeting Israeli soldiers on behalf of the Islamic State. Anas Haj Yehiye, 35, an Arab-Israeli resident of the central Israeli city of Taibe, was arrested late last month, the Shin Bet security service announced in a statement issued Monday after the lifting of…
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