Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Notorious Jewish ‘Terrorist’ To Be Freed — Despite Ties To Firebomb Murder of Palestinian Family
JERUSALEM — Meir Ettinger, the suspected head of a right-wing Jewish terrorist cell who is being held in administrative detention, will be released from jail. The Lod District Court determined Tuesday that Ettinger would be released in June after the Shin Bet security service said it would not request an extension of his detention. But the…
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Fast Forward Australia Rejects Push for ‘McKosher’ Trademark
SYDNEY — An Australian lawyer who claims he is of Scottish-Jewish descent has failed in a bid to register the trademark “McKosher.” Trademark applicant Mark Glaser has an office based in the northern North South Wales town of Maclean, which prides itself on being the Scottish capital of Australia and even boasts tartan telegraph poles….
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Fast Forward France’s Jewish Student Union Joins Social Media Hate-Speech Suit
— France’s Union of Jewish Students has joined two other French groups in suing Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for failing to remove anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic content. SOS Racisme, France’s largest anti-racism group, and SOS Homophobie, a gay rights movement, announced Sunday in a statement that they were taking legal action against the three social…
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Fast Forward Was Prominent Dallas Lawyer Ira Tobolowsky Killed in Revenge ‘Suspicious’ Fire?
— The “suspicious” fire that killed a longtime civil rights lawyer from a prominent Jewish family in Dallas reportedly may have been revenge by a client or former client. Ira Edwin Tobolowsky, 68, was found dead in his garage on Friday morning in a blaze that fire officials are calling “suspicious in nature,” according to The Dallas Morning…
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Fast Forward Eilat Rattled by Magnitude 5 Earthquake
JERUSALEM — An earthquake rattled the Sinai Peninsula and Israel’s southernmost city, Eilat. The temblor struck very early Monday morning and measured about 5.0 on the Richter Scale. There were no reports of damage. The earthquake’s epicenter was in the Red Sea, about 100 miles from Eilat. It comes a month after a small earthquake…
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Fast Forward ADL To Recognize Armenian Killings as ‘Genocide’
BOSTON — The Ottoman government’s massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the early 20th century was “unequivocally genocide,” the head of the Anti-Defamation League said in the group’s strongest position on the subject. Jonathan Greenblatt, the civil rights group’s CEO, also said in a blog post Friday that the ADL will support U.S. recognition of the…
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Fast Forward Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson Compares European Union to Hitler
— Former London Mayor Boris Johnson has come under fire for comparing the goals of the European Union to Hitler. Johnson, who is in favor of Britain leaving the EU, told the Sunday Telegraph that the EU, like Hitler, aims to unify Europe under one “authority.” “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it…
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Fast Forward Brazil Jewish Community Cheers New President Amid Impeachment Drama
RIO DE JANEIRO — The elevation of a centrist vice president, Michel Temer, as Brazil’s president amid the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff is expected to result in a less strained relationship between Brazil and Israel, as well as its Jewish community, Jewish leaders said. Temer, 75, the son of Lebanese immigrants, took the helm…
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