Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward HBO Tight-Lipped on Planned Documentary About Ari Shavit Book
— HBO is not discussing the status of a documentary project based on a book by Ari Shavit, the Israeli journalist who in the past two weeks has been accused twice of sexual harassment. Asked by Variety whether the documentary project will go forward in the wake of the accusations, HBO declined to clarify. A…
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Fast Forward Israeli Bodybuilder Named Mr. Universe Junior
JERUSALEM — A 20-year-old Israeli was named Mr. Universe in the contest’s junior division — reportedly the first Israeli to win the junior title. Kobi Ifrach of Zichron Yaakov, near Haifa, won the title Sunday in the under-22 division at a competition in Birmingham, England. The event was sponsored by the National Amateur Body-Builders’…
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Fast Forward ‘Jew-S-A’ Trump Fan Claims He Was Chanting ‘U’ With Faux Latino Accent
— The man who chanted “Jew-S-A” at a Donald Trump campaign rally told reporters it was all a misunderstanding and “I love Jews very much.” George Lindell of Phoenix was caught on video at a rally on Saturday night in his Arizona city chanting at the press pen while the rest of the crowd was…
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Fast Forward Did Israel Get-Out-Vote Group Drop Ball on Presidential Election?
JERUSALEM — A number of Americans living in Israel are complaining about iVote Israel, an organization founded by American Israelis to help ex-pat Americans vote in U.S. presidential elections. Potential voters supporting both political parties are complaining that requests for absentee ballots filed through iVote were never received by their local elections officials and that…
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Fast Forward Israel Wants 7-Month Delay in Evacuating Illegal West Bank Jewish Outpost
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government requested a delay in the evacuation of a West Bank settlement outpost in order to better prepare new housing for its residents. On Monday, the State Attorney’s Office asked for a delay of seven months from the Dec. 25 deadline ordered by the Supreme Court to evacuate Amona, saying it could…
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Fast Forward Raoul Wallenberg Officially Declared Dead by Sweden
— A Swedish government agency has declared Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers, as dead. The Swedish Tax Authority, which registers births and deaths in Sweden, confirmed to The Associated Press that a report Monday in the Expressen newspaper that Wallenberg had been declared dead was…
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Fast Forward Florida Holocaust Museum Hit by Break-In — No Damage to Displays
— A 23-year-old man who broke into the Florida Holocaust Museum did not damage any of the displays or steal anything. St. Petersburg Police arrested Christopher Michael Venegas early Sunday morning, according to local reports. Surveillance camera footage at the museum in the central Florida city showed Venegas breaking an electronic keypad and call box, which sent a…
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Fast Forward Super Inspirational Teenage Girls Go Viral With ‘Juslims’ Halloween Costume
— A photo of two teenage girls from California, one Muslim and one Jewish, who dressed up for Halloween as the superhero team “The Juslims” has gone viral. The photo tweeted by Jeff Pearlman, the father of Casey, 13, was liked 83,000 times and retweeted 44,000 times in the 48 hours after it was posted…
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