Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Fewer Than 150 Attend Vaccine Education Program In New York Orthodox Community
(JTA) — Fewer than 150 women turned out for a vaccine education program in Monsey, New York, less than a month after the same hall was filled with many hundreds of men and women for an anti-vaccine symposium. The women’s-only event in Monsey, a Rockland County town with a large haredi Orthodox population, was hosted…
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Fast Forward Department Of Education Investigating Williams College Over Rejection Of Pro-Israel Group
(JTA) — The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Williams College in Massachusetts for discrimination after the student government refused to give a pro-Israel group official status. The department’s Office for Civil Rights in Boston has opened an investigation into a complaint alleging that the College Council, the college’s student government, violated Title VI of…
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Fast Forward Franken Gives First Public Speech Since Resigning To Minnesota Jewish Group
(JTA) — Al Franken addressed a Jewish group, reportedly the first public speech he has delivered since resigning from the Senate 19 months ago. He spoke on Sunday to the Jewish Family Service of St. Paul, Minnesota Post columnist Eric Black reported. Franken did not discuss the facts and circumstances that led to his resignation…
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Fast Forward Israeli Lawmaker Wants To Restore ‘Torah Justice System’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A right-wing Israeli lawmaker said he wants to be the country’s justice minister so his religious party can “restore the Torah justice system.” Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, which includes his Jewish Home party, made the statement Sunday night at a Jerusalem Day event at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva…
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Fast Forward California Democratic Party Rejects Resolutions Critical Of Israel
(JTA) — Draft resolutions fiercely critical of Israel that were put forth by far-left Democrats in California for the state party’s convention were substantially rewritten by the Resolutions Committee of the California Democratic Party. Four of the rewritten resolutions were passed by the committee on Friday at the party’s state convention in San Francisco, and…
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Fast Forward Trump: Israeli Politics Are ‘Messed Up,’ I’m ‘Not Happy’ With New Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Donald Trump said that Israeli politics are “messed up” and that the country should “get their act together.” He also said that his administration is “not happy” about the turn of events. Trump made the comments on Sunday on the White House lawn before leaving for a visit to the United…
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Fast Forward Last Living Survivor Of Sobibor Death Camp Dies
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The last living survivor of the Nazi death camp Sobibor has died. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday at a hospital in central Israel at the age of 96. He moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, according to the Jerusalem Post. Sobibor was built and operated by the SS during World War II near the…
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Fast Forward British University Fires Lecturer Over Holocaust Denial
(JTA) — A British university has fired a lecturer who condemned the formation of a campus Jewish society and shared Holocaust denial material on social media. Maaruf Ali, a lecturer in computers and electronics at the University of Essex, wrote in February on Facebook that “the Zionists next want to create a society here at…
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