Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward 5 Israeli Soldiers Arrested For Allegedly Beating 2 Palestinian Terror Suspects
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israel Defense Forces officer and four soldiers were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly beating two Palestinian terror suspects while in their custody. The five soldiers are all members of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda infantry battalion, a unit for religious soldiers. The Palestinian men were arrested near Ramallah while Israeli troops…
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Fast Forward Israel Predicts Foreign Country Will Interfere In Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of the Israel Security Agency said an unnamed foreign state “intends to intervene” in Israel’s national elections. Russia said a couple of days later that it’s not the state. The head of the ISA, Nadav Argaman, said Monday that the meddling in the April 9 vote will come through cyberattacks and…
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Fast Forward Shira Ish-Ran, Whose Baby Died After Ofra Terror Attack, Leaves Hospital
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Shira Ish-Ran, the woman whose prematurely born baby died after she was shot in a terror attack last month left the hospital, on her feet. “We are a walking miracle,” she told reporters as she left the hospital. “I arrived at the hospital lying down and left walking.” Ish-Ran, who left leaning…
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Fast Forward Angela Davis Says Criticism Of Israel Caused Civil Rights Museum To Scrap Award
(JTA) — Civil rights activist Angela Davis said her “long-term support of justice for Palestine” was the reason the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama rescinded her human rights award. Davis called the decision “regrettable” and “not primarily an attack against me but rather against the spirit of the indivisibility of justice.” In a statement over the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Calls For Chance To Debate His Accusers On Live TV
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a chance to take on his accusers on live television. Speaking Monday night, the prime minister said that during investigations into the corruption cases against him he “demanded a face-to-face confrontation with states’ witnesses.” He said he was denied several times. “Today I repeat that demand,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teens Arrested For Stoning Death Of Palestinian Woman
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Several Jewish teens who study in a West Bank yeshiva high school have been arrested for involvement in the death of a Palestinian mother of nine. Aisha Mohammed Rabi, 47, was killed in mid-October at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank. A rock thrown at the car driven by her husband…
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Fast Forward German Theater Offers Far-Right Party Free Tickets To ‘Schindler’s List’
(JTA) — An independent movie theater in western Germany offered free tickets to a screening of the film “Schindler’s List” to members of the far-right Alternative for Germany party. The screening of the classic film, marking its 25th anniversary, is scheduled for January 27, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The New York Times reported….
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Fast Forward Fake Bomb With ‘Anti-Jewish Writings’ Left At UC Berkeley
(JTA) — A resident of Berkeley, California brought a fake bomb with “anti-Jewish writings” on the package into the University of California Berkeley Police Department. Michael Fleming, 48, was charged last week with sending a false bomb, designed to cause fear for ones’ safety. He was not charged with a hate crime despite the words…
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