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Fast Forward Australian Jewish Boy Forced To Kiss Muslim Classmate’s Shoes Received Threats
(JTA) — The Jewish boy who was forced to kneel and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate has been sent threatening text messages. The messages were sent Friday after photos of the incident were splashed across the front pages of newspapers in Australia and around the world, the Daily Mail reported. The photo was…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Posted At New York Holocaust Memorial Before Yom Kippur
(JTA) — Material and graffiti described as hateful and anti-Semitic were discovered at a Holocaust memorial in White Plains, New York on the eve of Yom Kippur. Stickers and posters were found on Tuesday at the Holocaust Garden of Remembrance. Writing described as anti-Semitic was found on a sign outside the garden and inside the…
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Fast Forward Backpack Set On Fire On Steps Of Brooklyn Synagogue Over Yom Kippur
Updated 1:45 p.m. (JTA) — A backpack was set alight and left on the steps of a Jewish center in Brooklyn on Yom Kippur. The burning backpack on the steps of the Park Slope Jewish Center was reported at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, the New York Post reported. The New York City Fire Department extinguished…
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Fast Forward German Jewish Leader: Police Didn’t Have Enough Protection At Attacked Synagogue
(JTA) — A Jewish leader in Germany doubled down on his accusation that police did not adequately protect a local synagogue at the center of an attack in the east of the country. “If police had been stationed outside the synagogue, then this man could have been disarmed before he could attack the others,” Josef…
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Fast Forward AOC Tries To Shame Trump For Anti-Semitism Toward ‘Shifty Schiff’
(JTA) — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused President Donald Trump of anti-Semitism for his attacks on Rep. Adam Schiff of California. “Understand that Trump is engaged in deliberate, atrocious, targeted antisemitism towards Chairman Schiff,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted with a retweet of an article in The Intercept suggesting that Trump’s attacks against Schiff come from the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Reunited In Israel After 75 Years
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Holocaust survivors who were separated as children reunited in Israel after 75 years. Morris Sana, 87, and his cousin and friend Simon Mairowitz, 85, were convinced that the other had been killed by the Nazis, according to People magazine. They reconnected after their descendants found each other on Facebook. The men…
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Fast Forward Malaysia’s Leader Questions The Holocaust In Speech At Columbia University
NEW YORK (JTA) — The prime minister of Malaysia defended his past anti-Semitic statements and questioned the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust in a speech at Columbia University. “I am exercising my right to free speech. Why is it that I can’t say something against the Jews, when a lot of people say…
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Fast Forward Dershowitz Says His Accuser Did ‘Terrible Disservice’ To #MeToo Movement
(JTA) — Denying allegations of sexual assault, the prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz lashed out at one of his accusers, claiming that she fabricated her claims and was tarnishing the #MeToo movement. “I’ve never met Virginia Giuffre. I’ve never had sex with her. And the reason I’m saying it is because it’s true,” NBC News quoted…
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