Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward YouTube Star Dumped By Disney Over ‘Death To All Jews’ Video
(JTA) — Disney has severed its relationship with a popular YouTube star after millions of people viewed his videos featuring anti-Semitic content. In a Jan. 11 video, 27-year-old Swedish citizen Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, covers his mouth and watches as two South Asian men dressed in green loincloths hold a sign reading “Death To…
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Fast Forward Amazon Sells Holocaust-Denying Books Online
(JTA) — Amazon has removed books that deny the Holocaust from online stores in countries where Holocaust denial is illegal, but they remain available in the United States and the United Kingdom. The British newspaper The Independent reported that the books were removed in some countries, including Italy, France and Germany, after Amazon was contacted…
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Fast Forward Americans Narrowly Back Palestinian State
(JTA) — Americans are nearly evenly divided over support for a Palestinian state, according to the latest Gallup poll. Some 45 percent of Americans back the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and 42 percent oppose it, according to the poll taken during the first week of February. Some 13 percent…
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Fast Forward 2 More Pro Football Players Pull Out Of Israel Junket — Including New England Patriots Star
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least two more National Football League players, including a member of the world champion New England Patriots, have pulled out of a publicity trip to Israel. Martellus Bennett, a tight end for the Pats, reportedly pulled out of the trip, joining his brother Michael, a Seattle Seahawks defensive end. Michael Bennett on Friday posted a photo…
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Fast Forward Jewish and Muslim Families in Viral Anti-Trump Photo Share Shabbat Dinner
(JTA) — The two families captured in a viral photo taken at Chicago’s O’Hare airport during a demonstration of President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban had a Shabbat meal together. The Yildirim family, who are Muslim, on Friday night joined Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell and his family for Shabbat dinner at their home in Deerfield, Illinois,…
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Fast Forward Swastika Painted On Jewish Teen’s Car In Boca Raton
(JTA) — A large swastika was spray painted on the side of a car in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Boca Raton, Florida. The incident occurred early Sunday morning, according to local report. The white swastika took up the entire driver’s-side door of the black Ford Mustang. The owner of the car is a teenager…
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Fast Forward Church of Loaves and Fishes Reopens After Vandalism by Jewish Radicals
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An historic church in northern Israel has reopened more than a year after an arson and vandalism attack. The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe Jesus performed a miracle in which he fed thousands of people, reopened on Sunday after renovations costing about $1 million. The…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Sales at Nordstrom Dove by 70% as Election Neared
(JTA) — Sales of Ivanka Trump’s fashion line at Nordstrom’s dropped sharply before the November election, the Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper cited internal data from the department store chain to show that sales of Trump’s fashion line fell by nearly one third in the last fiscal year, and dipped the most just before the…
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