Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward New York City will install 100 new security cameras in Haredi neighborhoods
(JTA) — New York City will install 100 new security cameras in neighborhoods in Brooklyn with large haredi Orthodox Jewish populations. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the new security measure on Friday. The neighborhoods slated to get the cameras are Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, the Associated Press reported. The first 30…
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Fast Forward ‘Kill All Jews’ graffiti found at Brooklyn high school
(JTA) — Graffiti reading “Kill All Jews” and a swastika were discovered drawn in black marker in the stairwell of a high school in Brooklyn, New York. The graffiti was discovered on Thursday afternoon at Brooklyn Technical High School. A school employee discovered the message at the end of the school day, the New York Daily…
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Fast Forward ‘Jeopardy!’ can’t decide if Bethlehem is In Palestine or Israel
(JTA) — Is Jesus’ birthplace, the Church of the Nativity, located in Israel or Palestine? According to the popular prime time game show “Jeopardy!,” the answer just may be both. At the end of the first round on Friday night’s show, part of its popular Greatest Of All Time tournament, one question remained in the…
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Fast Forward New Jersey teen says his boss sent anti-Semitic messages after he asked off for Rosh Hashanah
(JTA) — A New Jersey teen accused the manager of a local pizzeria of sending anti-Semitic text messages after he asked to take off for a Jewish holiday. Nicholas Bogan, 17, had been working for a short time at Maurizio’s Pizzeria & Italian Ristorante in Eatontown, New Jersey, when he asked to take off the…
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is ‘cancer free’
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she is cancer free. Ginsburg told CNN Tuesday during a wide-ranging interview that treatment for a localized malignant tumor on her pancreas, discovered in July, was successful. “I’m cancer free. That’s good,” she said in the interview in her chambers. Ginsburg, 86, has been treated…
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Fast Forward Swastika reportedly drawn on head of Toronto man with alzheimer’s
(JTA) — A swastika was drawn on the bald head of a 65-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in Toronto. The swastika drawn in black marker was discovered this week at the Glendale Care Centre by the man’s nephew, Shane Morrow, Toronto.com reported Wednesday. A smiley face also was drawn inside a wing of the swastika. The man,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Chief Rabbi calls former Soviet immigrants ‘religion-hating gentiles’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi is under fire for calling immigrants from the former Soviet Union “Communist, religion-hating” gentiles. At a rabbinical conference in Jerusalem last week, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef criticized Israel’s Law of Return for granting citizenship to Russians who are not Jewish according to Orthodox religious law, the Yediot Acharonot daily…
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Fast Forward Across the US, police and locals rally around Jewish communities in wake of rise in anti-Semitic attacks
(JTA) — New York City held a huge rally this past weekend, but it wasn’t the only place to protest against a recent rise in anti-Semitic attacks. Police and locals in cities around the United States have pledged to support and protect their Jewish communities over the past week. In South Carolina, religious leaders gathered…
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