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Fast Forward Queens Private Beach Club Targeted With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — A playground at a private beach club in Queens was targeted with anti-Semitic and racist graffiti. The playground at the Silver Gull was closed, the club announced on Friday, “due to the recent and increasing vandalism from within the club,” the New York Times reported Sunday. Among the graffiti, according to the report,…
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Fast Forward Serbia Blocks Plan To Build Mall On Site Of Former Concentration Camps
(JTA) — Serbia’s parliament will block plans for construction, including of a shopping mall, on former concentration camps, the country’s president said. President Aleksandar Vucic told Efraim Zuroff, the Eastern Europe Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, on Thursday in Belgrade that a bill that would make the plans impossible would be passed this year,…
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Fast Forward Measles Outbreak In Brooklyn Orthodox Neighborhoods Declared Over
(JTA) — The measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City is considered over. There have been no new infections over the last two incubation periods, signaling the end of the outbreak, city health officials said on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported. This means that an emergency order mandating vaccines will be…
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Fast Forward Iranian Athlete Defects After Being Forced To Throw Match To Avoid Israeli
(JTA) — The Iranian judoka who last week threw his semi-final match so he would not have to face an Israeli competitor, has fled to Berlin and says he will no longer compete for Iran. Saeid Mollaei was ranked number one in the world until last week when Israeli judoka Sagi Muki took gold medal…
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Fast Forward Jeffrey Epstein Criminal Case Closed Due To His Death
(JTA) — A federal judge in New York formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein, the Jewish financier who authorities say killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York shelved the indictment on Thursday charging Epstein, 66, with sex…
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Fast Forward Germany Eases Citizenship For Families Who Fled Nazis
(JTA) — Germany said it will make naturalization easier for some people, including Jews, who fled the Nazi regime because of persecution. The move Friday is announced in two decrees unveiled by the interior ministry. They affect several hundred applicants who applied for Germany citizenship but had been rejected because they were born to a…
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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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