Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Foundation commits up to $10 Million to help summer camps
(JTA) — The Harold Grinspoon Foundation has committed up to $10 million to a matching fund to help Jewish overnight camps weather the coronavirus crisis. Dozens of eligible camps from a myriad of Jewish movements will receive $1 for every $2 they raise from other donors through the end of April, the foundation announced. The…
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Fast Forward ‘Palestine’ in Arabic painted on UMass Hillel on Holocaust Remembrance Day
(JTA) — The Hillel at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst was vandalized on Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. The red spray-painted Arabic letters translate as “Palestine,” The Massachusetts Daily Collegian student newspaper reported Tuesday. The graffiti was discovered on Tuesday morning. The school has been closed since mid-March due to the coronavirus crisis….
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Fast Forward NJ man accused of ordering attacks on synagogues released from jail
(JTA) — The New Jersey man arrested for allegedly ordering the vandalism of two synagogues in other states on behalf of a neo-Nazi group was released from jail and sent to house arrest. Richard Tobin was released last week by a federal magistrate in Camden on a $100,000 bond, The Associated Press reported late Monday….
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Fast Forward Accused Monsey stabber not mentally fit to stand trial, federal judge rules
(JTA) — The suspect in a stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, that left an elderly man dead has been deemed not mentally fit to stand trial by a federal judge. The ruling released Monday found that Grafton Thomas currently cannot assist in his own defense because he is suffering from…
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Fast Forward Global population of 14.7 million Jews falls well short of pre-WWII numbers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The worldwide population of Jews stands at 14.7 million, still fall short of the pre-World War II numbers, according to a report by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. The figures, which are similar to the population of world Jewry in 1925, were released ahead of Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. The…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu, Gantz sign ‘National Emergency Government’ agreement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz signed a deal Monday to form a “national emergency government’ that keeps Netanyahu as the prime minister for now. Israel has spent more than a year under a caretaker government as neither Netanyahu nor Gantz could assemble a coalition government. With…
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Fast Forward Anti-lockdown protests spawn more anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Holocaust imagery
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust imagery continue to be mainstays at anti-lockdown protests against governors and in state capitols. A placard at an anti-lockdown protest held Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, in front of the state capitol bore the image of the body of a rat standing on its hind legs with a Star…
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Fast Forward Swastikas spray-painted on Florida synagogue
(JTA) — Police have released images from a surveillance video showing a young white man man spray-painting swastikas on a synagogue in Sarasota, Florida. The vandalism to the front doors of Temple Emanu-El in Sarasota caused about $5,000 in damages, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. The incident occurred on April 2 after midnight….
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