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Fast Forward Police Recommend Indicting Israeli Health Minister For Aiding Alleged Pedophile
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Police recommended indicting Israeli lawmaker Yaakov Litzman for bribery and aiding an alleged pedophile. Litzman, who heads the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and serves as deputy health minister, could be charged with fraud and breach of trust for helping alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer including preventing her…
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Fast Forward California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum Has ‘Anti-Jewish Bias,’ Lawmakers Say
(JTA) — An ethnic studies curriculum proposed by the California Department of Education is “inaccurate and misleading” and reflects an “anti-Jewish bias,” Jewish members of the state’s legislature wrote to the head of the committee writing the curriculum. The California Legislative Jewish Caucus says that the curriculum “effectively erases the American Jewish experience,” “omits anti-Semitism,”…
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Fast Forward BB Gun Shots Fired at Los Angeles Yeshiva
(JTA) — Shots from a BB gun were fired at the Valley Village Community Kollel in Los Angeles. The building was struck on Sunday morning, while the Kollel was in session inside, the Yeshiva World news website reported. No one was injured from the shots. A car parked outside of the building had a window…
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Fast Forward Top Republican Congressman Sent Letter Saying Rich Jews Bought Congress
(JTA) — A letter sent by National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer to party members identified three “left-wing radicals” that he says “bought control of Congress for the Democrats.” They are all Jewish. Emmer represents Minnesota’s Sixth District in the U.S. House. The Minneapolis-based American Jewish World newspaper first saw the letter, which is said…
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Fast Forward Senator Cites Anne Frank’s Last Diary Entry To Criticize Trump’s Refugee Policy
(JTA) — Sen. Jeff Merkley quoted Anne Frank extensively in a criticism of the Trump administration’s refugee policy. The Oregon Democrat devoted 23 tweets to an excerpt from the Jewish teenager’s diary, written days before she was discovered in her Amsterdam hiding place by the Nazis and sent to her death in Bergen-Belsen. On Thursday,…
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Fast Forward Florida Man Targeted Orthodox Jews In $3 Million Ponzi Scheme
(JTA) — A Florida man targeted Orthodox Jews as part of a Ponzi scheme that cost his marks $3 million in losses. Shayeh Dov, 49, is facing up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines for his involvement in the fraudulent investment scheme that he ran from 2012-2018 and involved more than 30…
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Fast Forward Britain Sees Record Number Of Anti-Semitic Incidents In First Half Of 2019
(JTA) — A record number of nearly 900 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded in the United Kingdom for the first six months of 2019. The Community Security Trust, or CST, which is British Jewry’s largest watchdog on anti-Semitism, released its January-June 2019 Antisemitic Incidents Report, on Thursday. The 892 incidents reported in the first half of 2019…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Wearing Kippah Assaulted By Taxi Driver In Montreal
(JTA) — A Jewish man wearing a yarmulke was assaulted by a taxi driver in Montreal. The taxi driver was blocking the door to an underground garage at a condo building Sunday in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal. When the driver of a car honked to signal that he should move away from the door,…
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