Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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Fast Forward Stars of David spray-painted on Boston apartment buildings
BOSTON (JTA) – Stars of David graffiti were spray-painted on two apartment buildings in a Boston neighborhood. Police are investigating the incidents in the South End that occurred overnight Saturday as acts of vandalism. It’s too early in that process to call the vandalism anti-Semitic, Robert Trestan, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League’s New England…
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Fast Forward 8 Swastikas Discovered At Smith College
BOSTON (JTA) — Smith College in Massachusetts was vandalized with a rash of swastikas. Local police have joined the investigation into the incident at the prestigious all-women school in Northhampton, about 100 miles west of Boston. Students reported finding at least one swastika on a wall in an academic building on Thursday. Police then searched…
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Fast Forward Israeli Flag Tagged With Swastika Found Near Cape Cod Shul
BOSTON (JTA) — – An Israeli flag defaced with a swastika and white supremacist symbols was found on the grounds of a Cape Cod synagogue hours after the end of Yom Kippur. Police are investigating the incident at Falmouth Jewish Congregation after being notified by the synagogue’s rabbi, Elias Lieberman, who found the flag on…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Calling Holocaust ‘Fake News’ Posted At Synagogue
BOSTON (JTA) — Two anti-Semitic fliers that deny the Holocaust were posted at a Massachusetts synagogue, with reports of similar incidents at synagogues in two other states. Police are investigating what the Anti-Defamation League described as a coordinated campaign by a national online white supremacist group. The fliers at Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, a town…
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Fast Forward Boston Rabbi Suggests Congregants Bring Guns To Synagogue For Protection
BOSTON (JTA) — A rabbi here has asked congregants to consider bringing guns to religious services as a form of protection in response to recent shootings at synagogues across the country. Rabbi Dan Rodkin of Shaloh House in Brighton, a Boston neighborhood with a large number of Russian-speaking Jews, told the public radio station WBUR…
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Fast Forward Police Probe Second Suspicious Fire At Boston-Area Chabad
BOSTON (JTA) — A second suspicious fire in less than one week burned Thursday night outside of the home of the rabbi of a Chabad center in suburban Boston. The fires at the Center for Jewish Life Arlington-Belmont are being investigated as hate crimes. The Arlington Police Department and its Fire Department are working with…
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Fast Forward Fire At Boston-Area Chabad Investigated As Possible Hate Crime
BOSTON (JTA) — A fire outside the suburban Boston home of a rabbi that serves at a Chabad center is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Police in Arlington, Massachusetts, have asked for the public’s help in identifying a person caught on a neighbor’s video camera walking away from the home Saturday night around…
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Fast Forward Julian Edelman Raises $10K For Pittsburgh Victims By Selling Cleats
BOSTON (JTA) — A California firm paid $10,000 for a pair of Julian Edelman’s game shoes to benefit families of the victims of the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. The New England Patriots’ wide receiver wore the cleats — stamped with the words “The Tree of Life” in Hebrew and an Israeli…
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