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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Charity Promoted Book Containing Anti-Semitic Content
(JTA) — B’nai Brith Canada has called on the country’s tax authority to revoke the registration of a pro-Palestinian charity after alleging that it is promoting a book containing anti-Semitic content. A cross-Canada book tour by Palestinian Anglican cleric Naim Ateek, to promote his new book “A Palestinian Theology of Justice,” is being promoted by…
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Fast Forward Arrest Made In Crown Heights Attack On Orthodox Jewish Man
(JTA) — Police arrested a man accused of attacking an identifiably Jewish man who was walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. James Vincent, 40, was arrested on Friday morning after he appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court on an unrelated case, the New York Daily News reported. He was charged…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise To Record Level In Canada
MONTREAL (JTA) — Canada had a record number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2017, B’nai Brith Canada reported in its annual audit. There were 752 incidents of harassment, vandalism and violence, a 1.4 percent increase over the record 1,728 last year, according to the Audit of Antisemitic Incidents released Tuesday. The vast majority of the incidents…
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Culture Want to Understand Putin’s Russia? Read “Dressed Up For A Riot.”
In response to the scandal surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election, American media outlets have presented the Kremlin as a breeding ground for complex schemes and ruthless espionage, and have cast Vladimir Putin as an eccentric mastermind. These commentators would do well to read Michael Idov’s “Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow,” a…
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Theater Are We Ready To Reckon With ‘The Merchant Of Venice’?
In May 1943, at Vienna’s Burg theater, the Nazi party staged its most famous production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” It starred Werner Krauss, a man so anti-Semitic that he is said to have asked Joseph Goebbels to make a public announcement clarifying that he was not Jewish, but rather habitually played Jewish caricatures…
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Fast Forward Don’t Wear Kippahs In Public Warns German Jewish Leader
(JTA) — The head of the main Jewish umbrella in Germany has recommended that Jews not wear kippahs in public in its major cities. “I would actually have to advise individuals not to openly wear a kippah in the metropolitan setting of Germany,” Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in…
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Fast Forward Firefighter Who Tweeted Anti-Semitic Hate Transferred Out Of Orthodox Neighborhood
(JTA) — A newly graduated New York City firefighter who had quit as an EMT after his racist and anti-Semitic tweets came to light was transferred out of a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn after just one day. Joseph Cassano, the son of a former fire commissioner, worked Monday at a Borough Park station, but the…
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Fast Forward Is Trump’s Sleepy Eyes Jibe At Chuck Todd Anti-Semitic?
Is “sleepy eyes” Donald Trump’s latest anti-Semitic dog whistle to the white supremacists and neo-Nazis? That’s what the Washington Post is asking in a column after Trump tweeted the insult of Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” program on Monday. Trump is a famous user of belittling nicknames and monikers for rivals…
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