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Fast Forward Jerusalem Municipality Accused Of Trying To Suppress Arab Vote
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jerusalem municipality plans to open only six polling stations in the predominantly Arab eastern part of the city for October’s mayoral election, sparking charges that officials are trying to keep the Arabs from voting. Jewish neighborhoods, which represent most of the city’s voters, will have more than 180 stations, Haaretz reported…
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Fast Forward Swedish Politician Fighting Racism Denies Calling Jews ‘Impure’
(JTA) — A Swedish politician from Malmo who has worked on integration of immigrants denied saying that Jews and Armenians have “impure spirits.” Muhammad Khorshid, who represents the Liberals on the city council of the municipality in southern Sweden, told Expressen that the comment in his name from 2016 on Facebook belonged to a fake…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorials In Estonia Torched, Vandalized With Swastika
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village in the Harju County near Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia, the website News-Front reported Thursday. The monuments, erected at sites of mass killings of Jews…
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Fast Forward ADL Condemns Trump For Tweeting South Africa White Nationalist Conspiracy Theory
(JTA) — President Trump has come under fire, including from the Anti-Defamation League, for apparently tweeting support for a white nationalist conspiracy theory that whites in South Africa are in danger of genocide. In a tweet posted after Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s segment on land reform in South Africa, Trump wrote that he had “asked…
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Fast Forward ‘You Should All Be Shot,’ Man Tells Jewish Woman In Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Jewish woman from Amsterdam told police that a man shouted at her and her children that they “should all be shot” and called them “cancer Jews” before getting into a taxi cab. The incident occurred Wednesday in the heavily-Jewish Buitenveldert neighborhood of Amsterdam, the Het Parool daily reported based on a…
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Fast Forward Trump Names Jewish Pro-Israel Security Expert To Senior Intelligence Post
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump chose as the deputy chairwoman of the intelligence advisory board a Jewish national security expert who is well known in the pro-Israel national security community. Samantha Ravich was named to the board, which helps shape intelligence policy, on Tuesday. Ravich, a former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Dick…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen’s 4 Most Jewish Moments
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Jew makes news, but does that make it Jewish news? Take the case of Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to fraud and campaign finance improprieties, directly implicating his former boss, President Donald Trump. Cohen, whose father survived the Holocaust, began his education at a yeshiva day school but transferred to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Community In India Mostly Unaffected By Deadly Floods
(JTA) — The Jewish community in Kerala has largely escaped harm from the deadly floods in the southern Indian state, one member of the community told JTA. More than 350 people have been killed and over 1 million have been displaced by the floods, which started in June and are the worst the state has…
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