Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward New Jersey Lawmakers Vote 69-3 for Anti-BDS Measure
— The New Jersey Legislature passed legislation that prohibits the state from investing pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses. The bipartisan bill in response to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel passed the state’s General Assembly on Monday by a vote of 69-3 with 2 abstentions. It…
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Fast Forward Presbyterians Call for ‘Prayerful Study’ of BDS
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League expressed “disappointment” after the Presbyterian Church USA passed several resolutions aimed at pressuring Israel and re-evaluating church support for the two-state solution. The church’s General Assembly, held in Portland, ended on Sunday. Among the resolutions passed was approval of the report of a committee charged with studying the two-state solution…
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Fast Forward Rio Welcome Centers To Offer Kosher Food and Help for Olympics
RIO DE JANEIRO — Chabad will convert its three Rio de Janeiro centers into “welcome centers” for the estimated 40,000 Jewish visitors expected this summer for the Brazil Olympics and Paralympic Games. The sites in Leblon, Copacabana and Barra will provide kosher food and a prayer minyan, as well as help with other Jewish or…
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Appeals Murder Conviction
— A former Nazi SS guard who was sentenced to five years in prison by a German court for his role as an accessory in the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland has appealed his conviction. Attorneys for Reinhold Hanning, 94, filed appeals of the verdict handed down earlier this month…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Clash on Temple Mount for Second Day
JERUSALEM — Muslim rioters and Israel police clashed for a second day on the Temple Mount. The Muslim worshippers threw rocks, stones and firecrackers at police officers on the Temple Mount on Monday. The rioters had been stockpiling the weapons in the Al-Aksa Mosque and had barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, according to reports….
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Fast Forward Birthright Students Get College Credit for First Time
JERUSALEM — The first Birthright trip offering participants academic credit is now in Israel. Some 50 students from colleges and universities in the United States are participating in the inaugural cohort and will be entitled to three academic credits at their academic institutions, according to Taglit Birthright. They will attend courses at the Interdisciplinary Center…
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Fast Forward Jewish Dad Who Took Out Ad To Find Grown Son a Wife Avoids Media
— The Jewish father who took out a full-page ad in an Idaho newspaper looking for a wife for his son has postponed the interviews he scheduled for this weekend at an Idaho resort. People Magazine reported Sunday that Arthur Brooks, 78, of Beverly Hills decided to delay his interviews of potential wives for his…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Stabber Gets Life in Prison for Murder
JERUSALEM — Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, including a 16-year-old girl fatally, was sentenced to life in prison. On Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court also ordered Schlissel to pay compensation to the family of Shira Banki, the teen who was killed, and to those injured in the July…
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