Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Germany Cracks Down on Internet Anti-Semitism With 60 Arrests
BERLIN — Police in 14 German states reportedly conducted raids on 60 individuals in an attempt to root out the sources of anti-Semitic and other hate postings on the internet. The raids on Wednesday marked the first time that Germany has conducted a nationwide hunt for internet hate purveyors, according to German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, who said…
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Fast Forward California Camp Cut Short After Salmonella Outbreak
— A Jewish overnight camp in Southern California will cut short its first session by several days due to a salmonella outbreak. Moshava California, a Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles overnight camp in the San Bernardino Mountains, said it will end the session on Thursday rather than Sunday on instruction from the Department of Environmental…
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Fast Forward Ex-Football Star Khalif Mitchell Tweets About ‘Demonic’ Star of David
MONTREAL — A former professional football player fined a year ago by the Canadian Football League for anti-Semitic tweets is still posting such material. Khalif Mitchell, apparently referring to the controversy surrounding a Donald Trump posting, recently tweeted that “the real tribes of Israel would never use a demonic Star of David, only devils would.”…
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Fast Forward Israel Army Rabbi Backs Down on Rape Pronouncement — Called Gays ‘Sick’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The choice for chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces renounced statements he made about rape in wartime and drafting female soldiers. Col. Eyal Karim, 59, was nominated Monday by the IDF’s chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot. On Tuesday, Karim was called for an interview with the IDF Personnel Directorate over statements…
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Fast Forward Canada Green Party Split Over Anti-Israel Push
TORONTO — The leader of Canada’s Green Party is “torn” over two Israel-related resolutions to be debated at the party’s convention next month. One resolution to be reviewed by party members meeting in Ottawa in August would endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The second calls on the party to pursue revoking…
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Fast Forward Liberal Jewish Groups Speak Out To Defend Same-Sex Marriage
— Some 22 liberal groups, most of them Jewish, condemned a bill that would protect religious institutions that promote traditional marriage from government sanction. The First Amendment Defense Act would prevent any federal agency from denying a tax exemption, grant, contract, license, or certification to an individual, association, or business based on their belief that…
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Fast Forward Slain 13-year-old Israeli Girl Mourned on Temple Mount
JERUSALEM — At least 50 people ascended the Temple Mount for a memorial with the family of slain West Bank teen Hallel Yaffa Ariel. It was the largest group of Jews permitted to visit the Temple Mount in the past year, according to Haaretz. About 200 supporters gathered afterward at the Western Wall plaza to…
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Fast Forward Woman Converted by Haskel Lookstein Gets New Rabbinic Hearing
JERUSALEM — The Supreme Rabbinical Court in Israel wants to hear for the second time in a week from a woman whose conversion by a prominent U.S. rabbi was rejected. The court delivered a summons to the woman on Monday for a hearing Wednesday in her appeal of the rejection by the Petach Tikvah Rabbinical Court….
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