Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, really, really wanted me to check out its synagogue
“You should visit sometime! You’d fit right in,” the chatbot said, repeatedly. It wasn’t the antisemitism I’d been told to expect
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Fast Forward Ceasefire brokered by Egypt ends days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 44 Palestinians were killed, including 11 children. Israeli officials said Palestinian Islamic Jihad missiles had killed the children
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News ‘Inca Jews’ get a closer look in new book about Peru’s unlikely mass conversion
The saga of the Bnei Moshe — and their battle for acceptance by Peru’s and Israel’s Jewish leadership — unspools in 'The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land'
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Fast Forward Blake Masters, Republican who once cited a Nazi official, among far-right candidates to prevail in Arizona primaries
Master prevailed with the support of former President Donald Trump and tech financier Peter Thiel
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Marine plotted to attack Jews and others in ‘rapekrieg,’ federal prosecutors say
Matthew Belanger was discharged because of his extremist activity, which included training with weapons outside a Long Island synagogue
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Fast Forward German man reportedly sent to prison for Holocaust comment about singer who claimed antisemitism
Singer Gil Ofarim said a clerk had denied him a room at a Liepzig hotel because he was wearing a Star of David necklace
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Fast Forward Baruch Lebovits, convicted child abuser whose case shed light on Hasidic justice system, dies at 71
Lebovits pled guilty to sex abuse in 2014. The saga of his criminal trial was the subject of a New Yorker article.
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Fast Forward At least 7 killed at July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago
The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band was playing when the shooting began
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