Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Veteran Palestinian journalist shot and killed in Jenin while reporting on Israeli army operation
Israeli and Palestinian authorities disputed the circumstances of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, each blaming the other for the shot that killed her.
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Fast Forward Man charged in Portland, Ore., synagogue and mosque vandalism spree
Michael Bivins had been a freelance journalist covering protests in Portland.
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Fast Forward Israel’s health minister: Overturning Roe v. Wade would be ‘a fatal blow to human rights’
Nitzan Horowitz, who leads the liberal Meretz party, wants to liberalize Israeli abortion policy, too.
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Film & TV Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ features a Hungarian ‘Gold Train’ filled with Nazi loot. What’s the real story?
The Hungarian Gold Train has taken on mythical proportions, but its reality is in some ways as mind-bending as the plot of Natasha Lyonne’s show.
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Fast Forward Florida school district removes ‘Purim Superhero,’ a book about a Jewish kid with 2 dads
The book, which the Jewish literary nonprofit PJ Library distributes, was the latest victim of a conservative-led initiative to remove books from schools.
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Fast Forward For their late leader’s milestone 120th birthday, Chabad Jews stage a worldwide celebration
(JTA) — A massive rally and concert drew 15,000 people to the streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Sunday night. On Monday, a different late-night party spilled into the streets of Queens. And, on Tuesday, 120 “Mitzvah Tanks” fanned out across New York City to distribute matzah for Passover and give passersby a chance to…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy offers new details about his family’s Holocaust history, igniting debate over Ukrainian Holocaust memory
(JTA) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s great-grandparents died when the Nazis burned their village, he said in an interview on CNN Monday. Speaking through a translator with Fareed Zakaria, Zelenskyy said, as he has many times before, that his grandfather and his grandfather’s brothers all entered the Soviet Red Army, and only his grandfather survived….
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Fast Forward Hillel and other Jewish groups call to dedicate a traditional pre-Purim fast day to Ukraine
(JTA) – Russia’s war on Ukraine was only a week old when Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz tweeted a bold suggestion: He called for a Jewish fast day dedicated to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Now, Borovitz is among a growing number of Jews who are planning to dedicate a traditional fast this week to Ukraine, in hopes…
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