Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Seattle Holocaust Center Vandalized With White Supremacist Graffiti
(JTA) — The Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle was vandalized with what it said was white supremacist graffiti. The graffiti was discovered on Wednesday, the center said in a letter released the following day. The spray-painted graffiti, described as “obscure white supremacist symbols,” was discovered as a teachers seminar was taking place, the center…
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Fast Forward Teen Arrested For Threatening Jewish Boy Who Was Forced To Kiss Muslim’s Shoe
(JTA) — A teenage boy in Victoria, Australia who allegedly sent threatening messages to a Jewish boy who had been forced to kiss the shoe of a Muslim student and to his mother has been charged for the threats. The boy, 16, was arrested by Victoria police and charged with stalking, harassing and threatening to…
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Fast Forward RBG Awarded $1 Million Prize For ‘Shaping Human Understanding And Advancement’
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been awarded a $1 million prize given annually to a thinker whose ideas “have profoundly shaped human understanding and advancement.” The 2019 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture was announced on Wednesday. The prize, first awarded in 2016, is given by the Berggruen Institute, a Los…
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Fast Forward 12 White Supremacists Were Arrested For Threats To Jews Since Pittsburgh: ADL
(JTA) — At least 12 white supremacists have been arrested for allegedly attacking, planning attacks against or threatening the Jewish community in the year since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh, the Anti-Defamation League said in a new report. Since Oct. 27, 2018, white supremacists have targeted Jewish institutions’ property…
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Fast Forward Former Student Arrested Over Swastikas Painted On Bay Area High School
(JTA) — A former student of a San Francisco-area high school was arrested in connection with the painting of graffiti including swastikas on the walls of the school building. Logan Stone, 20, who attended Burlingame High School, was taken into police custody on Thursday afternoon after police received a warrant to search his home, according…
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Fast Forward Thousands March In Berlin Against Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — More than 10,000 people marched in Berlin against anti-Semitism and in a show of support for the victims of anti-Semitic violence in the city of Halle. The march on Sunday left from Bebelplatz, significant as a site of Nazi book-burning, to the New Synagogue in central Berlin. Several thousand others marched on Saturday…
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Fast Forward Michigan Synagogue Papered Over With Hitler Posters
(JTA) — The doors of a synagogue in Grand Rapids, Michigan were plastered with posters described by police as anti-Semitic. Rabbi Michael Schadick of Temple Emanuel discovered the posters on Sunday morning, prior to the start of Sunday School at the synagogue. Local media did not report the contents of the posters. But photos of…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Slapped And Called ‘Dirty Jew’ In Brooklyn
(JTA) — A Jewish man was slapped in the face and called a “dirty Jew” in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon. The Jewish man was attacked by a black male riding a bicycle. He crossed in front of the Jewish man on his bike, slapped…
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