Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Swastika Burned Into Asphalt Near Denver School Playground
(JTA) — A swastika was burned into the asphalt near the playground of a Denver public elementary school. Gasoline was used to burn the anti-Semitic symbol at Ellis Elementary School on Monday night, the Denver Post reported. The swastika was covered up before students arrived at school the following morning, according to the report. The vandalism…
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Fast Forward Pennsylvania Lawmakers Remember Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
(JTA) — Pennsylvania lawmakers held a joint session of the state’s General Assembly to remember the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack. The memorial on Wednesday came a day after the city’s mayor signed into law new gun control legislation introduced in the aftermath of the Oct. 27 shooting by a white supremacist that killed…
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Fast Forward Jewish Organization Head Claims New Zealand Shooter Was ‘Left-Wing’ Terrorist
(JTA) — The head of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, told a congressional committee that the New Zealand mosque shooter was a “left-wing” terrorist, basing his assessment on the killer’s discursive 74-page manifesto. Klein testified on Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.” “The…
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Fast Forward Likud Placed 1,200 Hidden Cameras In Polling Stations In Arab Communities
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Likud Party placed some 1,200 hidden cameras in polling stations in Arab communities, in order to catch fraudulent voting. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters Tuesday afternoon that cameras are necessary to “ensure a fair vote.” “There should be cameras everywhere, not hidden ones,” he said. Israelis went to the polls…
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Fast Forward New York City Health Department Threatens Yeshivas Over Unvaccinated Students
(JTA) — The New York City Department of Health has threatened to fine or even close yeshivas in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn if students who are not vaccinated against measles are allowed to attend classes. The crack-down comes more than a week before the Passover holiday, when large and extended Orthodox families gather and…
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Fast Forward ISIS Hopeful Arrested In Montana For Threatening To Possibly Attack A Synagogue
(JTA) — An Albanian national with U.S. citizenship was arrested after he told a federal informant that he wanted to join ISIS and plan a terror attack on one of several possible locations, including a synagogue. After he heard about the attacks on two mosques in New Zealand he was inspired to “attack random people”…
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Fast Forward Uber Fires London Driver Who Refused To Take Jews
(JTA) — Uber dropped a driver in London who allegedly said he would not take Jews. Two men who were wearing kippahs said the driver, identified as “Ahmed,” refused to pick them up after they were matched with him on the Uber app, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The driver dropped off another passenger then “turned…
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Fast Forward Remains Of Missing Israeli Soldier Returned Home After 37 Years
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The body of Israeli soldier Zachary Baumel, an immigrant from the United States who went missing in Lebanon some 37 years ago, was returned to Israel. Baumel disappeared on June 10, 1982, in a battle at the beginning of the Lebanon War along with two other Israeli soldiers, Sgt. Yehuda Katz and…
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