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Head Of GOP In Israel Says Sarah Silverman ‘Needs A Muzzle’
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The leader of Israel’s main Republican group called Sarah Silverman a “self-hating Jew” and said she “needs a muzzle.” Marc Zell made the comments Saturday night on the Republicans Overseas Israel Facebook page, which he manages as the group’s co-chairman. The post links to a blog post about a decade-old video clip of…
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Dallas JCC Evacuated Over Threatening Phone Call
(JTA) — A Jewish Community Center in Dallas, Texas was evacuated due to a threatening call hours after an arrest was made in Israel in connection with dozens of other such threats around the country. The Aaron Family JCC in North Dallas received the threatening phone call and evacuated the building shortly before 5 p.m. on Thursday….
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AIPAC Grasps At Bipartisanship In Trump Era
American supporters of Israel struggled to strike a balance between elation at the possibilities under President Donald Trump and worry over support for Israel becoming a partisan issue at the first AIPAC conference since the election. “Americans across the country are retreating to ideological corners,” said Lillian Pinkus, president of the American Israel Public Affairs…
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Paris: Freemason Leader Attacked By Woman With Hammer Calling Him ‘Jew’
(JTA) — A leader of the Freemasons in France said he was assaulted on the street by a woman carrying a hammer who called him a Jew. Christophe Habas, the master of the Grand Orient of France, suffered superficial wounds in the incident Wednesday night as he was walking to a metro station in the…
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Jury Convicts Ex-Penn State President Of Child Endangerment
A jury convicted the former president of Penn State University of child endangerment on Friday for his handling of a 2001 report that assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was seen molesting a boy in a campus shower. But jurors in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, acquitted Graham Spanier of a second count of child endangerment and of conspiracy….
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House Dems Urge Trump To Preserve ‘Two States’
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The overwhelming majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives urged President Donald Trump to reaffirm the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as U.S. policy. With 187 of 193 voting Democrats signing, the letter to Trump released Friday is a pointed reminder of how divided the parties remain on how…
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Bernie Sanders Hails Withdrawal Of GOP Health Bill ‘Victory’
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded the pulling of a Republican bill meant to repeal the Affordable Care Act, while the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center urged expanding health care coverage. Sanders, Ind.-Vt., called it “a major victory” after House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., announced Friday afternoon that he was pulling the bill, which would have repealed much of President Obama’s Affordable…
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Man Admits He Groped Woman On Israel-New Jersey Flight
(JTA) — A New York man is facing up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching the woman sitting next to him on a flight from Israel to Newark, New Jersey. Yoel Oberlander, 36, who is a registered sex offender, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to commit…
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UN Committee Chief Backs Argentina’s Proposed Revamp For Anti-Terror Law
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Argentina’s proposed update of its 10-year-old anti-terrorism law received the support of a United Nations committee leader after earlier gaining the backing of the Jewish community. Jean-Paul Laborde, who heads the Executive Directorate of the U.N. Security Council’s Counterterrorism Committee, met this week with Argentine officials from the Ministry of Justice…
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Frankfurt’s Jews Sever Links With Chabad Over ‘Disrespect’ And ‘Insults’
(JTA) — The umbrella group representing the Jewish community of Frankfurt is distancing itself from the city’s Chabad-Lubavitch chapter following a series of alleged instances of “disrespect” shown against local non-Chabad rabbis. In an open letter published March 20, the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main group wrote that the city’s synagogues will no longer provide rooms…
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Jewish Groups Offer Mixed Responses To David Friedman’s Confirmation As Israel Envoy
(JTA) — Jewish groups offered varied reactions, including disappointment, tepid congratulations and enthusiasm, to the confirmation of David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel. On Thursday the U.S Senate confirmed Friedman, a longtime lawyer of President Donald Trump who outraged some Jewish groups with his broadsides against liberal Jews, in a 52-46 vote that hewed mostly to party lines. A range of liberal…
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