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Fast Forward Letter With Swastikas, White Powder Mailed To Israeli Consulate In NY
(JTA) — A letter decorated with swastikas that contained an unidentified white powder was mailed to the Israeli consulate in New York. The letter was received on Thursday afternoon, the New York Daily News reported, citing police sources. The powder was determined to be non-toxic, according to the report. The envelope also contained a hate…
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Fast Forward UAE Judo Head Apologizes After Athlete Refuses To Shake Israeli’s Hand
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of the Judo Federation in the United Arab Emirates apologized after one of the country’s athletes refused to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent. Meanwhile, three more Israelis won medals in the Grand Slam tournament in Abu Dhabi but were not able to celebrate with their country’s flag or…
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Fast Forward ‘Jews Will Burn’ Note Left On Connecticut Sixth-Grader’s Locker
(JTA) — A note reading “Jews will burn” was left on the locker of a sixth grader at a middle school in southwestern Connecticut. The superintendent of the Wilton city schools, Kevin Smith, told parents of students at Middlebrook Middle School about the incident in a letter sent home on Friday. The letter said that…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz Mocked With Anti-Semitic Cartoon In Berkeley Paper
(JTA) — The chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, condemned the publication of an editorial cartoon in a student newspaper criticizing Alan Dershowitz’s pro-Israel stance with anti-Semitic imagery. The cartoon published a week ago in the Daily Californian depicts a grinning Dershowitz with his head poking through a cardboard cutout bearing an Israeli flag…
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Fast Forward Jewish Texas House Speaker Retiring, Cites Republican Disunity
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Straus, the Jewish Republican who is speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, is retiring, in part because of disunity in his own party. Straus, first elected to the House in 2005, said in a post Wednesday on Facebook that he was leaving the speaker’s seat and the House next year…
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Fast Forward Mnuchin To Visit Israel During Anti-Terrorism Tour
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is stopping in Israel during a Middle East tour focused on combating terrorism. News of Mnuchin’s Israel stop came from Yad Vashem, which said Mnuchin would tour Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum on Thursday. It’s not clear yet which Israeli officials he will meet. Mnuchin, who is Jewish, is…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Diplomatic Envoy Resigns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic envoy, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, has resigned. Molcho served as Netanyahu’s diplomatic envoy during his first term as prime minister in 1996-99 and again since Netanyahu returned to office in 2009. He served as an Israeli negotiator during the 2013-14 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. He will leave his position…
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Fast Forward Graffiti In Ultra-Orthodox Israeli City Calls President ‘Nazi Apostate’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Graffiti referring to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as a Nazi was spray painted on an elementary school in the largely haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak. The graffiti discovered on Tuesday night read: “Rivlin is a Nazi apostate.” It is the second incident in recent days. Late last week, graffiti at a…
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