Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump violated quarantine to go to New Jersey for Passover
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump traveled to New Jersey with her family to spend Passover at a Trump family residence, despite federal guidelines against discretionary travel. Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three young children traveled from Washington D.C. to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, where they celebrated the first night…
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Fast Forward ‘Fauda’ season 3 launches this week on Netflix
(JTA) — Season 3 of the hit Israeli series “Fauda” will begin airing this week on Netflix. “Fauda” focuses on a commando unit of the Israeli army whose members embed themselves in the Palestinian community, gathering intelligence and preventing terror attacks. This season, which launches Thursday with English subtitles, will focus on Gaza. In Israel,…
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Fast Forward Leader of international neo-Nazi group was 13-year-old from Estonia: Report
(JTA) — A 13-year-old Estonian led an international neo-Nazi group that planned to bomb a synagogue and a U.S. news network, according to an Associated Press report. The teen called himself “Commander” of the Feuerkrieg Division, a group that the Anti-Defamation League says “embraces the most extreme interpretations of white supremacist ideology,” until Estonian police…
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Fast Forward Landlord to Scottish bagel shop owner: Coronavirus rent negotiation is ‘typical Jewish behavior’
(JTA) — The Jewish owner of a bagel chain in Scotland said she was “shocked” after the landlord of one of her stores called her request for an alternative rent payment because of the coronavirus crisis “typical Jewish behavior.” Larah Bross, who owns Bross Bagels, told the Edinburgh News late last week that she has…
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Fast Forward Second synagogue vandalized in Huntsville, Ala.
(JTA) — A second synagogue was vandalized in Huntsville, Alabama, days after another one was plastered with anti-Semitic slurs. The Chabad of Huntsville was spray-painted with swastikas and what local media describes as anti-Semitic graffiti and racial slurs on Thursday night. Surveillance video shows an unidentified suspect painting on the synagogue’s property for about 20…
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Fast Forward ‘F**k Kikes’ spray-painted on Los Angeles synagogue
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted on a synagogue in Los Angeles. “F**k Kikes” followed by “Daniel M” was painted on the outside of the Ahavat Shalom synagogue, an Orthodox Persian synagogue. A photo of the graffitied synagogue was first posted on Facebook Tuesday by a sports management student at the University of Delaware who…
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Fast Forward As Germany’s number of coronavirus cases grows, so do levels of anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Germany has seen an increase of anti-Semitism along with the rise in coronavirus cases, the country’s anti-Semitism commissioner said. “There are direct links between the current spread of the coronavirus and that of anti-Semitism,” Felix Klein said Tuesday in Berlin, the AFP news agency reported. “In recent weeks, right-wing radicals have increasingly tried to…
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Fast Forward Family of Holocaust survivor mourns over wrong body
(JTA) — The family of a Brooklyn grandfather performed funeral rites for the wrong body due to a mix-up — but their upset turned to satisfaction for helping out a stranger with no one to grieve his loss. Moshe Grunwald, a Holocaust survivor who was the nephew of the Alter Tzelemer rebbe, the head of…
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