Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Makes Historic Visit To Singapore
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his counterpart in Singapore, during the first visit to the country by an Israeli prime minister. In a statement issued after the meeting Monday with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Netanyahu called Loong’s visit to Israel in April, the first by a Singapore leader,…
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Fast Forward Reuven Rivlin Pleads For Americans To Avoid Using Israel As Partisan ‘Football’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Reuven Rivlin told American Jewish leaders that Israel is concerned about the polarization of society in the United States. The Israeli president addressed the opening meeting of the annual leadership mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations on Sunday evening. “In Israel, we are very concerned by polarization in society,…
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Fast Forward ISIS Claims Responsibility For Rockets Fired On Southern Israel From Sinai
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two rockets were fired from the Sinai Peninsula at southern Israel. The rockets fired on Monday came a day after the Islamic State, or ISIS, claimed that an Israel Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle on Saturday struck and killed at least four of the group’s members. They were traveling in a car…
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Fast Forward Tennessee Wife Killer Sues For Better Kosher Food
(JTA) — A prison inmate in Tennessee filed an over 200-page lawsuit alleging that the prison system is trying to force him to break the Jewish laws of kashrut by providing him with substandard kosher meals. Perry March, who has served 10 years of a 56-year sentence for the 1996 murder of his wife (though…
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Fast Forward Austrian ‘Hitlerine’ Woman Convicted For Denying Holocaust
(JTA) — An Austrian woman who questioned the Holocaust was found guilty of violating an Austrian law that makes Holocaust denial illegal. The woman, 53, was given a suspended jail sentence and fined $1,280 by a court in the western Austrian city of Feldkirch on Friday, the Associated Press reported. She criticized a post on…
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Fast Forward Trump Team Tried To Defeat UN Anti-Settlements Resolution Before Taking Office
(JTA) — President Donald Trump’s then-nominee for national security advisor, Michael Flynn, and members of the transition team, worked to defeat a United Nations vote condemning Israeli settlements, according to a new report. Foreign Policy reported Friday that: “The effort represented a fitful first foray into global diplomacy by Trump’s transition team, bearing hallmarks that…
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Fast Forward 21 Jewish Democrats Demand Trump Observe Religious Freedom
(JTA) — More than 20 Democratic Jewish members of the House of Representatives called on President Donald Trump to not sign an Executive Order that would exempt religious organizations from adhering to nondiscrimination protection. The letter sent on Thursday was in reaction to news reports that Trump would sign the order allowing federally funded, faith-based…
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Fast Forward ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis and ‘The Bouncer’ Lieberman Agree To ‘Continue Close Collaboration’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. Mattis on Friday “underscored the U.S. commitment to Israel’s security and its qualitative military edge,” according to a readout of the meeting from the U.S. Department of Defense. Mattis and Lieberman…
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