Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Chesa Boudin, Jewish prosecutor at fore of progressive wave, recalled in San Francisco
Boudin’s outlook was informed by his experience as the child of Jewish radicals who spent decades in prison.
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Fast Forward Season 4 of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ filmed in a Lithuanian prison where Nazis jailed Jews
Menachem Begin, the future Israeli prime minister, was imprisoned at Lukiškės for eight months in 1940 and 1941.
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Fast Forward Buffalo shooter’s manifesto includes antisemitic rhetoric along with racism
'They must be called out and killed' said white supremacist who fatally shot 10 at supermarket
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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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