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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Apologizes For Being ‘Disrespectful’ To Women
(JTA) — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is said to be preparing to become a Democratic presidential candidate, apologized for using “disrespectful” language about women. Bloomberg, who is Jewish, apologized through a spokesman in a New York Times article published Thursday. “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said…
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News 91-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Has Bar Mitzvah
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – At 91, Holocaust survivor Andor Stern no longer fears the Nazis who imprisoned him in Auschwitz. Living in his native Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest metro area of nearly 25 million, what scares him today are burglars – his modest house has been broken into twice in the city where he…
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Fast Forward Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller Promoted White Nationalist Materials
(JTA) — White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist materials to the right-wing website Breitbart News as the 2016 presidential election neared. Many of the 900 emails sent from March 2015 to June 2016 “showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald…
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Fast Forward Trump Says He’ll Donate To Holocaust Museum After Court Shuts Down His Charity
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said he would pay $1.8 million to several charities, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, after losing a civil court case over his misuse of his charity to get elected. Trump made a statement about the payment on Thursday, after a New York judge ordered him to pay $2 million…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Orthodox Jews Assaulted, Chased In Series Of Nighttime Attacks
(JTA) — Several identifiably Jewish men and boys were attacked in a string of assaults in the Borough Park community of Brooklyn on the same night. Three of the attacks late Friday night involved the same passenger car over five blocks, the Yeshiva World News reported. Surveillance cameras captured each incident, in which several men jump…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic, Racist Pamphlets Distributed In South Philadelphia
(JTA) — Fliers described by local media as anti-Semitic and racist were placed on cars in parts of South Philadelphia. The page-long flier makes several false claims about the Jewish community and African Americans, the local CBS affiliate reported. “In general it profiles a really negative light on people of the Jewish faith, and their…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Supreme Court Upholds Deportation Of Human Rights Watch Director
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the local director of Human Rights Watch, who was ordered deported over his involvement in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Omar Shakir on Tuesday was ordered to leave the country within 20 days. Shakir was ordered expelled from the country a year ago. The…
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Fast Forward Biden: Putting Conditions On Aid To Israel Is ‘Absolutely Outrageous’
(JTA) — Presidential candidate Joe Biden says it would be a “gigantic mistake” to condition aid to Israel on stopping settlement expansion. The former vice president told a Wall Street Journal reporter it would be “absolutely outrageous” for the United States to take that approach — a position that puts him at odds with his…
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