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Breaking News Over 100 Swastika Leaflets Left At Virginia Tech Chabad
(JTA) — More than 100 leaflets with hand-drawn swastikas on them were found dropped on the front yard of the Chabad Jewish Student center at Virginia Tech. The leaflets were discovered at the student center located across the street from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Saturday afternoon by Chabad…
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Fast Forward Roman Archaeologists Discover Second Arch Of Titus
Archaeologists in Rome have discovered the remains of a second Arch of Titus commemorating the siege of Jerusalem by Roman emperor Titus in the 1st century C.E. Like the original Arch of Titus, it was built around 82 C.E. by Domitian, the younger brother and successor to Titus as the leader of the Roman empire….
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Breaking News Jewish Officials Push Back Against Trump Plans For Security Grants
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Citing the recent increase in threats to Jewish institutions, Jewish community officials urged Congress to preserve a security assistance program for non-profits that could be threatened under President Donald Trump’s budget. “Congress should consider ways to strengthen the program rather than dismantle it,” William Daroff, the Washington director of the Jewish Federations of North…
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Breaking News Jewish Community Reps Say Trump Budget Bad For Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Citing the importance to Israel of a robust U.S. posture abroad, Jewish groups decried drastic proposed cuts in foreign assistance funding in President Donald Trump’s budget despite assurances that aid to Israel would be unaffected. Israel’s guaranteed $3.1 billion defense assistance next year is a “cutout” and not subject to proposed drastic…
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Fast Forward ‘End Jewish Privilege’ Poster Circulates on Chicago College Campus
Anti-Semitic fliers calling for an end to “Jewish privilege” have been strewn all over the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, according to student Eva Zeltser, who posted an image of the poster with her commentary on Tuesday. “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” the flier shouts, purporting to show with…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Vice Co-Founder Makes ‘10 Things I Hate About Jews’ Video
Following a visit to Israel, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes — who left Vice a decade ago — launched into a rant against Jewish people and the Jewish state, in a post inventively titled “10 Things I Hate About Jews.” According to McInnes, Hebrew is “spit talk” and “whole language is clearing your throat, it’s like…
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Fast Forward QUIZ: Who Said It? Ex-Porn Star Jenna Jameson Or Provocateur Pamela Geller
Following her conversion to Judaism, ex-porn star Jenna Jameson has been praising Israel, tearing into Muslims and celebrating Trump, tweeting with a ferocity perhaps only matched by the new occupant of the White House. Jameson might be the Jewish right’s biggest provocateur since Pamela Geller, the anti-Islam extremist who’s managed to capture national attention with…
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Community The Secret Jewish History of Boxing
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J. Boxing and I have a love-hate relationship. A keen tournament competitor as a kid, I was besotted with the fighters and wallowed in their stats, especially those of the Jewish boys. Later I shrank from the corruption, the sleaze and brutality of most of it. But…
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