Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Hasidic Star Mordechai Ben David Uses Racist Slur Against Obama — Crowd Cheers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Popular Hasidic singer Mordechai Ben David called President Barack Obama a “kushi,” a pejorative term for a black person, at a concert in Jerusalem. Ben David was performing a song about peace at the Dec. 29 concert when he told the audience: “Do you know when there will be peace? In a…
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Fast Forward Jewish Couple’s Headstone Vandalized at Indiana Cemetery
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic message was spray-painted across the headstone of a Jewish couple buried in the cemetery of a small Indiana town — one of the only headstones bearing a Jewish name. The words F***|ing Jew were spray-painted in white across the back of the double headstone, on top of the large Jewish star,…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Sells 85,000 Copies in Germany
(JTA) — The annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” sold 85,000 copies in the one year since it was released in print for the first time since World War II. “Hitler, Mein Kampf: A Critical Edition” is in its eighth printing, according to the Spiegel newspaper, which noted that the book topped its best-seller…
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Fast Forward Helium Tank Caused SpaceX Blast That Destroyed $300M Israeli Satellite
(JTA) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX company announced that it has found the cause of a September launch pad explosion that destroyed a $300 million Israeli communications satellite. The company’s Falcon rockets have been grounded since the Sept. 1 explosion. SpaceX said in a statement that it expects to return to flight on January 8. The…
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Fast Forward Carjackers Killed When SUV Crashes Into Connecticut Synagogue
(JTA) — Two men were killed when the car they allegedly hijacked crashed into a New Haven, Connecticut, synagogue building during a police chase. The SUV driven by the men crashed into Congregation Beth El Keser Synagogue early on Monday morning. The two men allegedly had carjacked the 2005 Toyota Highlander shortly after midnight on…
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Fast Forward Lawmaker Accused of Smuggling Cell Phones to Palestinian Prisoners Suspended from Knesset
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab-Israeli lawmaker who allegedly smuggled cell phones to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons has been suspended from parliamentary activity in the Knesset for six months. Basel Ghattas of the Balad Party, which is part of the Arab Joint List, was suspended on Monday by the Knesset Ethics Committee, which approved the suspension…
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Fast Forward Body of Israeli Teen Killed in Istanbul Terror Attack Coming Home
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Interior Ministry arranged the return of the body of an Israeli-Arab teen killed in a terrorist attack in an Istanbul nightclub. Lian Zaher Nasser, 19, from the Arab city of Tira, was one of 39 killed in the attack, which occurred at around 1 a.m. Saturday at the Reina nightclub in…
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Fast Forward McDonald’s Trip Leads to 9-Year-Old Ultra-Orthodox Girl Being Shunned
(JTA) — A haredi Orthodox Jewish man from London told a family court judge that his 9-year-old daughter was facing ostracism from their community after her mother allowed her to eat McDonald’s and go to a mixed-sex gymnastics class. The girl’s mother had left her husband and their insular community, according to reports in the…
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