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Fast Forward Facebook Still Allows Ads Discriminating Against Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — A year after Facebook vowed to stamp out discriminatory advertising, landlords can still exclude specific races, minorities and other categories of people from seeing rental ads on the social media site. ProPublica bought dozens of rental housing ads last week and had no issue filtering out Jews, African-Americans, Spanish speakers and…
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Fast Forward Majority-Muslim Kosovo Puts Jewish Congressman On Stamp
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Eliot Engel has become the first U.S. congressman to be featured on a postage stamp in Kosovo. Engel, a New York Democrat, may be the first Jewish member of Congress on a stamp, period. Bella Abzug helped inspire a 1999 stamp celebrating the women’s rights movement, but the late New York…
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Israel News ‘The Mooch’ Gets Surprisingly Jewish To Stump For Trump In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications director, is not a member of the tribe. But he came close to declaring himself one during a visit to Israel this week. “A few more days here and I’d probably convert to Judaism,” Scaramucci joked to JTA on Tuesday. “They already did the circumcision…
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News The Trump Administration Says It Wants To Shut Down The PLO Mission. Now What?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In 1987, Congress passed legislation that declared there would never be an office of the Palestine Liberation Organization on U.S. soil. President Ronald Reagan agreed and signed the law. Seven years later the law was still on the books. But that year the PLO opened an office in Washington — with the…
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Fast Forward 4 Penn State Students Charged In Menorah Vandalism
(JTA) — Four Penn State University students are being charged with stealing a 9-foot menorah from the home of the campus Chabad rabbi and leaving it damaged outside a traditionally Jewish fraternity. The students, who were caught on surveillance camera footage late last month placing the damaged menorah on the porch of the Sigma Alpha…
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Fast Forward Roger Waters: BDS ‘Isn’t About Music – It’s About Human Rights’
(JTA) — Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters responded to criticism from Australian singer Nick Cave, telling him the artists’ boycott of Israel “isn’t about music – it’s about human rights.” Cave and his band, The Bad Seeds, played to sold-out crowds on Sunday and Monday in Tel Aviv. Prior to his concerts, Cave told…
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Fast Forward Can A Jew From Miami Beach Be Florida’s Next Governor? Philip Levine Says Yes.
MIAMI (JTA) — One candidate for governor is a former congresswoman and the daughter of a former governor and U.S. senator. Another candidate is a mayor who grew up in a blue collar African-American family. A third political newcomer is a Harvard graduate who builds affordable housing. Florida has been known as a place where…
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Fast Forward He Wandered Into Gaza And Can’t Escape. They Want U.S. Help To Get Him Back.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ilan Mengistu knows his pitch to rescue his brother, Avera, should be a no-brainer to Jews — “pidyon shvuyim,” the redemption of the hostage, is among the greatest of commandments. But Mengistu also knows that the story he has to tell is not the straightforward narrative longed for by those who would…
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