Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Dozens Of Anti-Semitic Flyers Posted In Queens
(JTA) — Dozens of anti-Semitic flyers were found in a Queens, New York neighborhood. The incident is being investigated by the NYPD Hate Crimes Unit, the Queens Daily Eagle reported. The flyers were first discovered on Wednesday night. The image on the flyer shows a man’s head with a kippah on top of it that…
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Fast Forward Tlaib’s Grandmother Curses Trump Over Cancelled West Bank Visit
(JTA) — Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother cursed President Donald Trump after he tweeted that she should be happy that her granddaughter was not coming to visit her in the West Bank. “Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down,…
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Fast Forward Ohio White Nationalist Arrested For Threatening To Attack JCC
(JTA) — An Ohio man was arrested after he appeared in a post on Instagram to threaten an attack on a local Jewish Community Center. James P. Reardon Jr., 20, was arrested early Saturday in connection with the threat on the Youngstown JCC. He is being held on charges of telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing,…
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Fast Forward Rashida Tlaib Attended Jewish Voice for Peace Shabbat Service After Cancellation Of Israel Trip
(JTA) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., joined a Friday night Shabbat service in a Detroit park arranged to show the freshman congresswoman support after she was denied entrance to Israel. The program in Detroit’s Pallister Park, attended by about 60 people, according to The Detroit News, was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace Action, the…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Accused of Sexual Harassment Resigns After Second Woman Comes Forward
(JTA) — A rabbi accused of sending sexually inappropriate text and voice messages to a woman living on a Tacoma-area military base is resigning his position. “I write to notify you that I am resigning my position as Rabbi of Chabad of Pierce County effective Sunday, August 11, 2019,” Rabbi Zalman Heber said in a…
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Fast Forward Las Vegas Man Plotted To Bomb Local Synagogue, Say Federal Authorities
(JTA) — A man from Las Vegas, Nevada who works as a security guard was arrested and charged with plans to bomb a local synagogue or a bar that caters to the LBGTQ community. The man was identified as Conor Climo, 23, in a statement issued Friday by the U.S. Justice Department. Climo was arrested…
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Fast Forward 167 Jewish Groups Urge Government To Meet Refugee Resettlement Goals
(JTA) — Some 167 national, state and local Jewish organizations have called on the U.S. government to meet the refugee resettlement admissions goal for this year. The goal for fiscal year 2019 is 30,000, a historically low figure. A letter signed by the organizations was delivered to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Wednesday. The…
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Fast Forward White Supremacists Committed At Least 73 Murders Since Charlottesville: ADL
(JTA) — White supremacists have committed at least 73 murders since the far-right rally two summers ago in Charlottesville, Virginia. That comes from a report released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League that says 39 of the killings were “clearly motivated by hateful, racist ideology.” The violence of the Unite the Right rally has led to…
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