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Fast Forward New Jersey Man Sues Costco After Cashier Allegedly Made Anti-Semitic Remarks
(JTA) — A New Jersey man has accused a Costco cashier of directing anti-Semitic remarks and questions at him while he was checking out. Irwin Levy filed a civil lawsuit on Monday in Monmouth County Superior Court about the April incident at the Costco in Hazlet. The lawsuit claims religious discrimination and negligent hiring and…
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Fast Forward Tiny Pacific Island Of Nauru Recognizes Jerusalem As Capital Of Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Republic of Nauru, a Pacific island country, earlier this month recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz commended the island nation for its recognition on Wednesday evening in a tweet which also said: “We will continue to strengthen Jerusalem and to bring about the recognition and…
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Fast Forward Russian Hackers Hit Benny Gantz’s Cellphone In ‘Unprecedented Attack’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russian hackers struck the cellphone of Benny Gantz, the chief rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in what an Israeli intelligence firm called an “unprecedented attack.” CGI Group, which Gantz hired to investigate a series of leaks from the center-left Blue and White party, said no sensitive information was gleaned from the…
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Fast Forward Trump Won’t Release Peace Plan Before Israeli Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — It’ll be at least more three weeks before we see any of the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. “We have decided that we will not be releasing the peace vision (or parts of it) prior to the Israeli election,” White House special Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt wrote in a tweet Wednesday. Days…
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Fast Forward Honduras Will Recognize Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital
(JTA) — Honduras will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Israel on Friday to inaugurate a “diplomatic office” in Jerusalem, the French news agency AFP reported Wednesday. The Honduran Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the office in Jerusalem will be an extension of its embassy in Tel…
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Fast Forward Veteran Israeli TV Host Apologizes For Calling Arabs ‘Savages’ On Air
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A veteran Israeli television personality apologized on Tuesday for saying on the air that “Arabs are savages.” Yaron London, 79, had made the remarks a day earlier during his show “London and Geula” on Channel 11, the Kan public broadcaster. They came during a discussion of the HBO series “Our Boys,” centering…
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Fast Forward Cameras Banned From Israeli Polling Stations In Decision Targeting Likud
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Cameras cannot be operated at polling stations, the head of Israel’s Central Elections Committee decided. The decision is directed at the Likud party, which had planned to place cameras in more than 1,000 polling stations in Arab communities. During the April election, Likud activists placed more than 1,200 cameras hidden in polling…
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Fast Forward State Department Removes ‘Palestinian Territories’ From Website
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The State Department’s removal of the word “Palestinians” from a web page listing countries and areas covered by its Bureau for Near East Affairs does not reflect a change in policy, a spokeswoman said. “The website is being updated,” the spokeswoman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an email. “There has been…
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