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Fast Forward The Top 10 Moments That Mattered To Jews In 5777
(JTA) — This Jewish year was not a quiet one, to say the least. From the tumultuous first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, to a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers, to a neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville that turned violent, to the twin weather catastrophes of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Jews, like…
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Fast Forward Israeli Supreme Court Revokes Law Giving More Yeshiva Students Draft Exemptions
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a law that increased the number of draft exemptions for haredi Orthodox yeshiva students. The legislation, passed two years ago, was “unconstitutional, disproportionate, and harms equality,” the justices wrote in the majority decision, which passed 8-1. The law’s stated purpose of reducing the inequality of the burden of…
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Fast Forward Some Trump Lawyers Thought Kushner Should Step Down Over Russia Scandal
(JTA) — Some lawyers for President Trump recommended that Jared Kushner step down as senior White House adviser over the Russia scandal. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the president’s lawyers were not united in the opinion. The article also said that Trump believed Kushner had done nothing wrong, thus there was no reason…
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Israel News Meet Israel’s ‘Alt-Right,’ Spreading Hate Online
JERUSALEM (JTA) – For many Jews, Nazis are public enemy No. 1, and using Nazi imagery to make a political point is strictly verboten. But some young, right-wing Israelis aren’t buying it. Inspired by the so-called alt-right abroad, their online community makes liberal use of anti-Semitic and Nazi imagery to mock and malign what it…
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Fast Forward Bomb Threat Didn’t Stop Jewish Couple From Getting Married
(JTA) — Gaby and Dan Rosehill wouldn’t let anything get in the way of their wedding day. Even if that thing was a bomb threat that forced all 218 guests to evacuate the hotel where the wedding was taking place. “I was just about to be named husband and wife when the alarm went off….
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Fast Forward Activist Released After Arrest By Palestinian Authority For Criticizing It
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian Authority released from prison a Palestinian human rights activist who had been arrested for criticizing the PA on Facebook. Issa Amro, 35, was arrested a week ago after he took to Facebook to criticize the arrest of a local journalist who had called for PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation. He…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Family Savagely Beaten At Home In Anti-Semitic Assault
(JTA) — The family of a French Jewish leader was assaulted in their home near Paris in what representatives of French Jewry said was an anti-Semitic attack. In the assault Thursday night, three men, two of whom were wearing masks, broke into the home of Roger Pinto, the president of the Siona group representing Sephardic Jews. The…
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Fast Forward Israeli Anti-War Movie Wins Venice Film Prize, Criticized By Culture Minister
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli film “Foxtrot” won the Silver Lion grand jury prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film is the second Venice prize for director Samuel Maoz, who won the top prize, the Golden Lion, in 2009 for his film “Lebanon.” Following the announcement of the prize on Saturday, Israeli Culture Minister…
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