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Fast Forward Brandeis University Reopens After Bomb Threat
(JTA) — Brandeis University reopened its campus following an email bomb threat. The suburban Boston campus closed Wednesday morning after the university received the threat. People on campus were moved to a secure facility and anyone not on campus was told not to enter. After law enforcement surveyed the campus and declared it safe, the…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Bus Driver Returns $10,000 Left By Orthodox Passenger
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab bus driver in Israel turned in $10,000 in cash that turned out to belong to a haredi Orthodox passenger. The driver for the Afikim bus company found the wad last Thursday on his bus running between Jerusalem and Bnei Brak in central Israel, east of Tel Aviv. He was identified…
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Fast Forward Bomb Threat Evacuates Michigan Jewish Organization
(JTA) — A bomb threat called in to a Jewish agency in Ann Arbor, Michigan, forced the evacuation of the building. The caller to the Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County on Tuesday morning said there would be an explosion in the building in 20 minutes, the MLive news website reported, citing Ann Arbor police….
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Fast Forward Trump Reaction To Charlottesville ‘Wasn’t Fine,’ U.S. Ambassador To Israel Says
WASHINGTON (JTA) — David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a longtime friend of President Donald Trump, said Trump’s reaction to the deadly violence at a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va. “wasn’t fine,” but he also faulted the media for being unfair to the president. Trump is doing a “great job,” Friedman told Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Gal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman’ Now Biggest Non-Sequel Superhero Movie
(JTA) — “Wonder Woman,” starring the Israeli actress Gal Gadot, has become the biggest non-sequel superhero movie ever, beating out the 2002 version of “Spider-Man.” The movie earned $404.1 million in the United States as of Monday, and has passed $800 million worldwide, with the film set to open in Japan on Friday, Forbes reported….
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Fast Forward ADL: Online Donations Up 1000% After Charlottesville
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League received 10 times as much money as usual from online donations in response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group, which combats anti-Semitism and bigotry, reported a 1000 percent increase in online donations during the week beginning Aug. 13, one day after the Charlottesville rally….
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Slams Modern Orthodox As ‘Borderline Reform’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party called members of the Religious Zionist movement “borderline Reform,” an insult among his Haredi Orthodox constituents. “Even the ‘knit kippot’ today, as some know even in very large communities, mainly in the center of the country, they’re already borderline Reform,” Aryeh Deri, who is…
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Fast Forward Should New York Remove Statues Of Its Anti-Semitic Governor?
(JTA) — Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson … and Peter Stuyvesant? One of these things is not like the others. Amid the impassioned debate over whether, when and how to remove statues memorializing the Confederacy, an Israeli nonprofit is seeking a piece of the action. On Tuesday, Shurat HaDin, which represents terror victims…
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