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Fast Forward Dutch Rabbi Reports Anti-Semitic Incident In Brussels
BRUSSELS (JTA) — A young rabbi from the Netherlands said unidentified individuals threw stones at him at a park in Brussels in a suspected anti-Semitic incident. The rabbi, who is from the Netherlands, told JTA about the incident Saturday on condition of anonymity, citing a desire to have him name “associated with positive issues, and…
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Fast Forward UCal Vote: Anti-Zionism Does Not Equal Religious Bigotry
SAN FRANCISCO – The University of California’s regents declared on Wednesday they would not tolerate anti-Semitism on campus but rejected a proposal to equate anti-Zionism with religious bigotry, as they tried to defuse tensions between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students. The statement of principles, approved unanimously by the university’s governing board, stems from concerns among Jewish…
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Fast Forward BDS Prof Likens Sodastream’s Palestinian Workers to Nazi Slave Labor
A New Zealand professor riled the local Jewish community by comparing Israel’s SodaStream to a German company that used Jewish slave labor during World War II. In a letter to New Zealand’s Waikato Times on Nov. 28, University of Auckland sociology professor Scott Poynting equated the Israeli firm, which employed Palestinians, with IG Farben, which…
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Fast Forward ‘Kill the Jews’ Painted on Ukrainian Synagogue
Vandals wrote “kill the Jews” on a synagogue in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy. In a separate incident, unidentified persons torched a wreath that an Israeli cabinet minister had placed for Holocaust victims in Kiev. The incident involving a synagogue was discovered on Wednesday in Cherkasy , Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbi Accuses New Jersey Town of Bias in Lawsuit
The head of Chabad in a town adjacent to the Orthodox Jewish stronghold of Lakewood, New Jersey, has sued the town and its planning board alleging discrimination. Rabbi Moshe Gourarie and the Chabad Jewish Center of Toms River Inc. filed a federal civil rights law suit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday against the township…
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News Fear of Attacks Is New Normal for Belgian Jews
Belgian Jews have gotten used to fearing for their safety. Every morning when parents drop off their children at Jewish schools across the country, they are greeted by heavily armed soldiers, stationed to protect the students. And Jews know not to be too open about their faith, avoiding wearing kippahs or Stars of David on…
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Fast Forward Long Island Jews Relieved as Cops Bust Teen in Swastika Case
A suburban New York teen was arrested for drawing two swastikas on the sidewalk in a heavily Jewish community. The swastikas were discovered earlier this month two blocks apart in Cedarhurst, a town on Long Island. Children who saw the swastikas on the sidewalk on their way to school on March 7 told their parents,…
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Opinion Vassar Through the Eyes of a Non-Jewish Zionist Professor
The atmosphere at Vassar College, where I’ve been teaching Russian history since 1999, is troubled. I am not Jewish, but even I have experienced an increase in hostility and strained silences among students and colleagues. I have been called a “f—king fascist,” “Zionist” and “idiot” for speaking out against Vassar’s BDS resolution and speaking up…
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