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Fast Forward California Jewish Camp Cancels Final Session Over Forest Fires
(JTA) — The final summer session of Camp Tawonga in Northern California has been canceled due to smoke from the Ferguson Forest Fire. In a letter to parents also posted on social media, the director of the Jewish camp, Jamie Simon, said that “the U.S. Forest Service, the Tuolumne County Health Department and CAL FIRE…
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Fast Forward Incendiary Kite Sparks Fire In West Bank Winery
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A kite carrying incendiary material sparked a fire in a vineyard in an Israeli winery in the West Bank. The kite is believed to have been launched on Monday from Nablus in the northern West Bank. The fire at the Tura Winery near Mount Gerizim was put out quickly, Hadashot news reported….
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Fast Forward Booker: I Didn’t Know Sign I Held With ‘Palestine’ On It Was Pro-Palestinian
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Cory Booker, seen as a likely contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, appears in a photo appearing to endorse a slogan of the pro-Palestinian movement. A Booker spokesman told JTA the senator had no idea the sign had anything to do with Israel. Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who is…
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Fast Forward Stanford RA Who Threatened ‘Zionist Students’ Resigns
(JTA) — A student at Stanford University who threatened to “physically fight” against “Zionist students” following Israel’s passing of legislation making Israel the “nation-state of the Jewish people” announced that he would resign his post as a residential assistant. In a Facebook post last month, Hamzeh Daoud, 20, wrote, “I’m gonna physically fight Zionists on…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s Childhood Home In Romania Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals spray painted offensive graffiti on the external walls of a museum for Elie Wiesel in Romania, where he was also born, in what police said was an anti-Semitic incident. The florescent pink graffiti that was painted on the Memorial House Elie Wiesel in Sighet in eastern Romania read “public toilet” and…
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Fast Forward Tunisia, Under Pressure, Lets 7-Year-Old Israeli In For Chess Championships
(JTA) — Following pressure, the Tunisian Chess Federation has agreed to allow a 7-year-old Israeli girl to participate in an international tournament in Tunisia. Tunisian authorities backtracked on their refusal to grant a visa to Liel Levitan for the World School Individual Championships next year in Sousse, France’s National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or…
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Fast Forward 2 Major Funders Of Israel Join Growing Criticism Of New Nation-State Law
(JTA) — The Jewish Federations of North America and The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, two organizations that provide major funding to projects in Israel, joined the criticism of Israel’s new nation-state law. Jewish Federations, which annually donates many millions of dollars to Israel and the Jewish Agency for Israel, focused its criticism on…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Says He Respects Jewish Affection For Israel
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn said he respects the affinity many Jewish feel for Israel and appealed to critics to resolve differences over his Labour Party’s policy on anti-Semitism that has drawn fire. Critics of the policy say it downplays hostility to Jews expressed as criticism of Israel. “I fully understand and respect the strong affection…
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