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Fast Forward Brooklyn Nets warm up in ‘No Place For Hate’ shirts with ADL logo
(JTA) — The Brooklyn Nets warmed up in shirts that read “No Place For Hate” and bore the logo of the Anti-Defamation League on Sunday night, before a game against the Atlanta Hawks at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. “No Place for Hate” is the ADL’s education program for combating bias, bullying and hatred in…
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Fast Forward New York City will install 100 new security cameras in Haredi neighborhoods
(JTA) — New York City will install 100 new security cameras in neighborhoods in Brooklyn with large haredi Orthodox Jewish populations. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the new security measure on Friday. The neighborhoods slated to get the cameras are Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, the Associated Press reported. The first 30…
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Fast Forward ‘Kill All Jews’ graffiti found at Brooklyn high school
(JTA) — Graffiti reading “Kill All Jews” and a swastika were discovered drawn in black marker in the stairwell of a high school in Brooklyn, New York. The graffiti was discovered on Thursday afternoon at Brooklyn Technical High School. A school employee discovered the message at the end of the school day, the New York Daily…
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News The release of a mentally ill man charged with hate crimes will test controversial new bail law
A man charged with committing anti-Semitic hate crimes is free after a year in jail awaiting trial, due to a new law that bans cash bail for certain offenses. Orthodox Jews say the law, intended to keep poor people from remaining locked up simply because they cannot afford bail, is the wrong move at a…
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Fast Forward Spotify to remove playlist titles about Jews and the Holocaust
(JTA) — The music streaming service Spotify said it would remove playlist titles deemed to contain anti-Semitic hate speech. A spokesperson for Spotify said this Thursday in a statement to the New York Post that the content in question violates company policy. The statement followed a report by The Times of Israel that found that…
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Fast Forward New Jersey teen says his boss sent anti-Semitic messages after he asked off for Rosh Hashanah
(JTA) — A New Jersey teen accused the manager of a local pizzeria of sending anti-Semitic text messages after he asked to take off for a Jewish holiday. Nicholas Bogan, 17, had been working for a short time at Maurizio’s Pizzeria & Italian Ristorante in Eatontown, New Jersey, when he asked to take off the…
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Fast Forward Swastika reportedly drawn on head of Toronto man with alzheimer’s
(JTA) — A swastika was drawn on the bald head of a 65-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in Toronto. The swastika drawn in black marker was discovered this week at the Glendale Care Centre by the man’s nephew, Shane Morrow, Toronto.com reported Wednesday. A smiley face also was drawn inside a wing of the swastika. The man,…
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Fast Forward Netherlands rally protesting Soleimani killing features caricature blaming Jews for terrorism
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Participants at a protest rally in the Netherlands against the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani waved anti-Semitic posters, a local watchdog group told police. At the demonstration Tuesday in front of the American Embassy in Wassenaar near the Hague, two women were photographed holding up a poster titled “the makers of…
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