Fearing for her kids, she fled with them to Israel — 8 years later, the U.S. plans to arrest her
Lerai Nichols fled the US in 2014 because she feared her ex-husband would kill her and her children, who are now all over 18
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A federal judge has refused to dismiss a suit against The City University of New York and its trustees filed by an Orthodox Jewish woman who claims that she was denied admission to the university’s social work school because of her religious background. The applicant, Faigy Rachel Weiss of Brooklyn, plausibly alleges that university officials…
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News Jewish history, and RBG, shaped Rachel Wainer Apter’s path to New Jersey’s top court
When Rachel Wainer Apter told her three children that she had just been nominated as a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, they were overwhelmed with excitement. “They laughed, they cried, and they screamed – all at the same time,” Apter, an Orthodox Jew and resident of Englewood, NJ, told the Forward in an…
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Fast Forward Dov Hikind Sues Ocasio-Cortez For Blocking Him On Twitter
(JTA) — Dov Hikind, the former Democratic New York Assemblyman, filed a lawsuit against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking him on Twitter because he holds opposing viewpoints. Hikind filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. on Tuesday, hours after a federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump was violating the Constitution by…
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Fast Forward New Jersey Cop Claims He Was Fired for Being Jewish
A Jewish former police officer claimed in a lawsuit that he was illegally fired because of his religion, NJ.com reported last week. Bergen County, New Jersey police officer Gary Bendit was dismissed from his job in 2017 along with 26 others by Sheriff Michael Saudino after the merger of the county’s police department and sheriff’s…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Who Slapped Soldiers Goes On Trial
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A trial began in military court for the Palestinian teen arrested in part for slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers standing guard in a West Bank Palestinian village. Ahed Tamimi, 17, arrived in Ofer military court on Tuesday morning. She had been ordered held in prison until the end of legal proceedings against…
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Fast Forward Jared Fogle, Disgraced Subway Pitchman, Fails In Legal Hail Mary To Ditch Prison
Disgraced Subway pitchman Jared Fogle tried to get a judge to overturn his conviction for child pornography by claiming to have no nationality, Courthouse News reported. In a motion filed by a fellow inmate at a prison in Colorado, Fogel claimed that the court had no jurisdiction over him because he was a “sovereign citizen”…
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Fast Forward Shearith Israel Will Appeal Loss in $7M Shul vs. Shul Feud With Touro Synagogue
— Congregation Shearith Israel in New York will appeal a federal court ruling last month stripping its control of the historic Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island. The Manhattan congregation filed a notice Tuesday saying it will appeal to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to reverse last month’s decision concerning its…
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