Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Sara Netanyahu Signs Plea Deal In Restaurant Meals Fraud Case
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his signed a plea deal in a fraud case against her. Sara Netanyahu is accused of ordering some $96,000 worth of private meals from high-end restaurants in 2010 and 2013 rather than using the cook at the prime minister’s residence to prepare meals, violating…
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Fast Forward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Sued Over State Cabinet Meeting In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An open-government watchdog group and several news outlets filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and members of the Florida State Cabinet over a meeting being held in Jerusalem. The Cabinet meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem was scheduled to be held on Wednesday afternoon. The lawsuit said that the…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Jews In Staten Island Remove Eruv After Anti-Semitic Backlash
(JTA) — An eruv, or symbolic boundary for Sabbath-observant Jews, was removed from a neighborhood on Staten Island. The eruv had been put up on utility poles around the neighborhood by a group of Hasidic Orthodox Jewish residents. They removed it after other residents put up lawn signs expressing opposition to an influx or religious…
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Fast Forward Belgian Model Spat At, Chased After Walking Naked Through Hasidic Williamsburg
(JTA) — A Belgian model was spit at and chased for walking completely naked through the largely Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Marisa Papen and her crew undertook the photo shoot on March 21, at the end of the Purim holiday, but posted a video of the chase on her website just last week. She…
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Fast Forward Teenage Yeshiva Boys Save Drowning Man With Swastika Tattoo
(JTA) — A group of teenage yeshiva boys saved a man from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston. The man they saved, it turned out, has a tattoo of a Nazi swastika on his hand. The incident occurred last week, NBC10 Boston reported. The teens, who study at a yeshiva high school in…
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Fast Forward Settler Suspended From IDF After Setting Palestinian Field On Fire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli settler caught on camera by an Israeli human rights organization setting fire to a Palestinian-owned field in the northern West Bank was suspended from his combat unit in the Israel Defense Forces. The soldier was home on a weekend leave from the military earlier this month when the incident occurred…
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Fast Forward Politico Accused Of Anti-Semitism Over Bernie Sanders ‘Money Tree’ Graphic
(JTA) — The cover story in this week’s Politico magazine, about how Jewish presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came to be a millionaire, shows him standing next to a tree sprouting leaves made of money. Progressives on Twitter, including Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the illustrations anti-Semitic. Politico originally tweeted the article under the…
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Fast Forward 9 KKK Members At Rally Drowned Out By Hundreds Of Counter-Demonstrators
(JTA) — Nine members of the Ku Klux Klan, 8 of them wearing masks, rallied in Dayton, Ohio, alongside more than 500 counter demonstrators. The demonstrators, members of the Honorable Sacred Knights of Indiana, waved American flags, a KKK flag and a Confederate battle flag. They did not attempt to speak much, and any time one…
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