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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She Has ‘At Least Five More Years’ On Supreme Court
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she hopes to remain on the court for another five years. “I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.” Ginsburg made the statement…
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Fast Forward British Labour Party Politician Suspended For Claiming Jews Drink Blood
(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party suspended a councillor for sharing a post saying that it is a Jewish ritual to drink blood. The post appeared Friday on the Facebook page of Damien Enticott, a councillor in Bognor Regis, a town on England’s southern coast. He removed the post and told the Jewish Chronicle that he had…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Lawmaker Resigns From Knesset Over Nation-State Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab-Israeli lawmaker resigned from Knesset in protest of the nation-state law. Zouheir Bahloul of the Zionist Union announced his resignation on Saturday during a live appearance on Israel’s “Meet the Press” television show. “The law oppresses me and oppresses the population that sent me to the Knesset,” he said during his…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teens Enter Israel Carrying Home-Made Submachine Guns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Palestinian teens from the West Bank entered Israel carrying home-made machine guns. The teens, from Nablus, were found by a Border Police foot patrol in the Seam Zone, between the Green Line and Israel’s security barrier, outside the community of Oranit near central Israel. They had tried unsuccessfully to run away,…
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Fast Forward 3 Gazan Palestinians, Including 12-Year-Old Boy, Killed In Border Clashes
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Gazan Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed during clashes at the Israel-Gaza border. Some 7,000 Palestinians gathered in several spots along the border and participated in riots including throwing rocks and burning tires and throwing pipe bombs and other incendiary devices. The boy, 12, was identified by Palestinian officials as…
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Fast Forward Ex-New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Gets 7 Years For Corruption
(JTA) — A judge sentenced Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to seven years in prison for federal corruption charges. The sentence Friday came after a verdict in May in a second trial in two years for Silver. An appellate court overturned his 2016 verdict because of faulty jury instructions. Silver, 74, who…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Who Slapped Israeli Soldiers Released From Prison
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian teen arrested in part for slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers standing guard in a West Bank Palestinian village, was released from prison. Ahed Tamimi, 17, and her mother, who also was jailed for incitement, were released early Sunday morning and taken by Israeli officials to the West Bank checkpoint of Jabbara,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Condemn Stanford Student Who Threatened To ‘Fight Zionists’
(JTA) — Three Jewish organizations called on Stanford University to take action against a student who threatened to “physically fight Zionists” on campus in response to a recent law passed in Israel. A statement by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the World Jewish Congress and the Lawfare Project called on the…
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