Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward British Jewish Lawmaker Threatened by Jeremy Corbyn Backers
— A Jewish member of the British Parliament was put under police protection after receiving an anti-Semitic death threat on Facebook. Ruth Smeeth, 37, a member of the Labour Party, told British media that she holds party leader Jeremy Corbyn personally responsible for the actions of his supporters. The Facebook message repeatedly called Smeeth a…
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Fast Forward Scouting Group Probes Palestinian Branch for Glorifying Terror Killer
JERUSALEM — The world scouting organization is looking into complaints that its Palestinian branch named a leadership training course after the killer of Richard Lakin, a dual American and Israeli citizen. The Palestinian Scout Association was accepted six months ago as a full member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. The Palestinian branch had been a non-voting…
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Fast Forward SpaceX Rocket Carrying Israeli Satellite Blows Up on Launch Pad
— A rocket that was scheduled to launch an Israeli communications satellite into space exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The SpaceX rocket reportedly was in the midst of routine fueling test for Saturday’s scheduled launch when it exploded on Thursday morning. The explosion was felt throughout the NASA facility and…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel UCLA Student Leader Says BDS Bullies Forced Him To Transfer
— The former president of the UCLA Graduate Students Association has left the university’s law school over what he calls a “hostile and unsafe campus climate.” Milan Chatterjee will complete his third year of law school at New York University School of Law, the Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal reported. In July, Chatterjee was reprimanded by…
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Fast Forward Berkeley Opens First Kosher Cafeteria at University of California System
— A dining station at the University of California, Berkeley will be certified kosher, the first in the public university system. The dining station by Cal Dining is also designed to appeal to Muslims who eat halal, the local Berkeleyside news website reported. “A lot of people don’t know what ‘kosher’ means or what the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier Shot While Guarding Jews at Flashpoint Joseph’s Tomb
JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier was shot while protecting worshippers at Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus. He was taken to a hospital in central Israel where he is in stable condition, the army said. Some 16 buses of worshipers arrived at Joseph’s Tomb early Thursday morning. Their IDF escort was attacked…
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Fast Forward U.S. Slams Israel for New West Bank Settlement Expansion
— The U.S. State Department condemned the announcement that an Israeli planning committee approved the construction of hundreds of housing units in four West Bank settlements. “We’re deeply concerned by the government’s announcement to advance plans for these settlement units in the West Bank,” State Department Spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday, in answer to a…
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Fast Forward Hungarian Court Blocks Holocaust Denial Website
— A court in Budapest has ordered the temporary blocking of about 20 websites that carry Holocaust denial material. The sites sell the Hungarian edition of a book by a Swedish author that denies that the Nazis committed genocide and makes excerpts available to read on-line, Budapest chief prosecutor Tibor Ibolya said Tuesday, Hungary Today…
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