Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward After Borough Park protest leader arrested for inciting a riot, his followers mob home of Hasidic journalist
(JTA) — A dispute that has roiled Borough Park, an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn, took a dark new turn Sunday night after Heshy Tischler, the man who led protests against COVID-19 restrictions there last week was arrested and charged with inciting a riot. The New York Police Department announced Sunday night that it had taken…
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Fast Forward Florida school board votes to rehire principal who refused to say the Holocaust happened
A Florida principal who told a parent he “can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event” will be rehired after a vote Wednesday night by the school board that fired him. William Latson made the comments to a parent in 2018 and was later removed from the Boca Raton high school where he had…
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Culture HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ contains an anti-Semitic stereotype
This story contains spoilers. (JTA) — Like more than 1 million Americans in each of the last three weeks, I’ve been appreciating “Lovecraft Country,” the new HBO series that adds monsters and other fantasy elements to the real-life horror stories faced by Black Americans. The show’s main characters are all Black, and the white characters…
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Fast Forward This sea lion-shofar mashup is spot-on
(JTA) — Now that it’s Elul, the month that precedes Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world is filling with the sounds of the shofar. But what about Sea World? Try listening to this 100 times. ? pic.twitter.com/GV277Kwkm8 — Johnny Kunza (@johnkunza) August 23, 2020 A viral video combining the call of sea lions with the blasts…
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Fast Forward NJ man pleads guilty to threatening Orthodox Jews for pandemic
(JTA) — A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to threatening the Jewish community of Lakewood over violations of the state’s lockdown rules that took place there in March. Anthony Lodespoto, 43, pleaded guilty to charges of “bias intimidation” on Friday, New Jersey Advance Media reported Monday. Prosecutors are seeking a six-month jail term for…
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Fast Forward Republican Congressional candidate deletes photos from Hitler’s retreat vacation
(JTA) — A right-wing Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina has taken down pictures he posted to Instagram from a 2017 vacation to the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazi retreat in Germany that Hitler visited more than a dozen times. Just seeing these @CawthornforNC Instagram posts from 2017…my god. Referring to Hitler with the honorific “Führer.”…
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Fast Forward Israel’s hockey captain signs to play in Oswiecim, aka Auschwitz
(JTA) — When the captain of Israel’s ice hockey team takes the ice for the coming season, he will be just a short walk from the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp where Nazis murdered nearly 1 million Jews during the Holocaust. Eliezer Sherbatov, 28, signed last week to the local team in Oswiecim, the Polish name…
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Fast Forward Jewish Congressional candidate Alex Morse faces allegations of inappropriate relationships
(JTA) — Alex Morse, the 31-year-old gay, Jewish progressive Democrat running to unseat a longtime congressman in Massachusetts is facing allegations that he had inappropriate relationships with students at local colleges. Morse is the mayor of the town of Holyoke. The College Democrats of Massachusetts announced that the group would sever ties with Morse in…
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