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News Miami JCC Scraps ‘Troublesome’ Play About Israel
A Jewish community center theater in Miami has canceled performances of a play about Israel following complaints from some community members that its message was “inappropriate and troublesome.” In a letter Tuesday explaining the decision to “suspend performances” after four showings of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center’s Cultural Arts Theater production of “Crossing Jerusalem,”…
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Fast Forward Detroit JCC Counselor Cutting Plea Deal in Child Porn Case
A former Jewish Community Center camp counselor charged with creating and distributing child pornography is negotiating a plea deal. Matthew Kuppe, who was released on bond in November, was scheduled to go on trial this month, but proceedings are on hold, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. Kuppe, 21, allegedly took photos of naked boys…
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Fast Forward Gleaming $20M JCC Opens in Luxe Moscow Suburb
(JTA) — On the only road connecting this affluent village on Moscow’s western outskirts, Russian secret service agents are blocking all inbound traffic. Drivers bound for Zhukovka pull over and step out to smoke while chatting with other motorists as a line of luxury cars grows on the shoulder of a two-lane road. The closures are…
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Fast Forward JCC Counsellor Accused in Child Porn Case Freed on $10K Bond
A counselor at a Michigan Jewish day camp who is accused of distributing child pornography has been released on $10,000 bond as he awaits trial. Matthew Kuppe, 21, who was arrested in August, is not dangerous and deserves to be presumed innocent, a federal judge said Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reported. In issuing the…
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Fast Forward Nashville Temple Hosts Planned Parenthood Event After JCC Balks
A Nashville synagogue has offered its facility as a venue for a Planned Parenthood event in the wake of a city JCC backing out of an agreement to host. Congregation Ohabai Sholom, also known as The Temple, reached out to Planned Parenthood of Middle & East Tennessee after learning of the Gordon Jewish Community Center’s…
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Fast Forward Detroit JCC Day Camp Ignored Warning About Porn Counsellor
Day camp supervisors at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit failed to notify senior management last summer after an employee voiced concerns about a camp counselor now charged with production, distribution and possession of child pornography. In a statement issued Thursday, the JCC said it discovered last Friday that camp supervisors had in 2014…
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Fast Forward Racist Gunman Spared Non-Jewish Woman in Kansas Rampage
A white supremacist charged with committing three murders outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year told a witness at his trial on Monday that he decided against shooting her after she told him she was not a Jew. Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, who is representing himself at the trial, questioned witness Maggie Hunker about…
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Fast Forward Detroit JCC Camp Counselor Charged With Filming Boys in Shower
A counselor at a JCC day camp in suburban Detroit was charged with producing child pornography after allegedly filming prepubescent boys in the JCC locker room and sharing the photos online. Matthew David Kuppe, 21, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was arraigned in federal court Thursday and charged with production, distribution, receipt and possession of child…
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