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Fast Forward ICE Officer Who Drove Truck Into Jewish Protesters Won’t Be Charged
(JTA) — A grand jury declined to indict a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who drove his truck into a row of Jewish protesters at an ICE detention center. Capt. Thomas Woodworth resigned his position days after the August incident at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, where protesters were…
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Fast Forward Teen Arrested For Threatening Jewish Boy Who Was Forced To Kiss Muslim’s Shoe
(JTA) — A teenage boy in Victoria, Australia who allegedly sent threatening messages to a Jewish boy who had been forced to kiss the shoe of a Muslim student and to his mother has been charged for the threats. The boy, 16, was arrested by Victoria police and charged with stalking, harassing and threatening to…
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Fast Forward RBG Awarded $1 Million Prize For ‘Shaping Human Understanding And Advancement’
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been awarded a $1 million prize given annually to a thinker whose ideas “have profoundly shaped human understanding and advancement.” The 2019 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture was announced on Wednesday. The prize, first awarded in 2016, is given by the Berggruen Institute, a Los…
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Fast Forward Most Media Coverage Of Anti-Semitism Focuses On The Left, Study Finds
(JTA) — The majority of news coverage of anti-Semitism during the past year has spotlighted left-wing rhetoric as opposed to right-wing actions, according to a survey by Media Matters. The study found that 56 percent of news coverage of anti-Semitism in the 11 months following the October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting focused on anti-Semitism coming…
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Fast Forward 12 White Supremacists Were Arrested For Threats To Jews Since Pittsburgh: ADL
(JTA) — At least 12 white supremacists have been arrested for allegedly attacking, planning attacks against or threatening the Jewish community in the year since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh, the Anti-Defamation League said in a new report. Since Oct. 27, 2018, white supremacists have targeted Jewish institutions’ property…
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Fast Forward Former Student Arrested Over Swastikas Painted On Bay Area High School
(JTA) — A former student of a San Francisco-area high school was arrested in connection with the painting of graffiti including swastikas on the walls of the school building. Logan Stone, 20, who attended Burlingame High School, was taken into police custody on Thursday afternoon after police received a warrant to search his home, according…
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Fast Forward Father Of Sandy Hook Victim Awarded $450K From Man Who Said Shooting Was Faked
(JTA) — The father of a Jewish boy killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School won a $450,000 judgment against the editor of a book that claimed the 2012 massacre at the school never happened. A jury in Wisconsin determined the amount to be paid to Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was the youngest…
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Fast Forward Thousands March In Berlin Against Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — More than 10,000 people marched in Berlin against anti-Semitism and in a show of support for the victims of anti-Semitic violence in the city of Halle. The march on Sunday left from Bebelplatz, significant as a site of Nazi book-burning, to the New Synagogue in central Berlin. Several thousand others marched on Saturday…
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