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Fast Forward Norway’s Public TV Station Apologizes For ‘Jewish Swine’ Cartoon
(JTA) — Norway’s public broadcaster has apologized for airing a cartoon in which a Scrabble player forms the word “Jewish swine.” NRK initially defended the video, which was pulled offline this month, against allegations of anti-Semitism out of its desire to “defend the freedom of speech,” NRK broadcasting manager Thor Gjermund Eriksen told the Aftenposten…
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Fast Forward Sarah Silverman Says She Was Fired From Film Project Over Blackface Clip
(JTA) — Sarah Silverman said she was fired from a movie role after producers saw a clip of her in blackface, the Jewish comedian said in an interview on The Bill Simmons Podcast. “I recently was going to do two days on a movie, a sweet part in a cool little movie, then at 11…
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Fast Forward Canadian Paper Apologizes After Running Cartoon Seen As Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — A Canadian newspaper that ran a cartoon seen as anti-Semitic has apologized following backlash from the local Jewish community. The Edmonton Journal cartoon nearly two weeks ago by Malcolm Mayes was about a data breach that exposed personal information belonging to millions of Capital One customers featuring a “data hacker” sitting with a…
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Fast Forward More Than 100 Tires Slashed In Heavily Orthodox Lakewood, NJ
(JTA) — More than 100 car tires have been slashed in the heavily Jewish town of Lakewood, New Jersey, over the past several days. All of the cars involved were reported to belong to or be used by Jews, ABC News reported Monday. Security footage broadcast by ABC showed a person in a hoodie using…
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Fast Forward 21 Israeli Lawmakers Want Congress To Stop Supporting Two-State Solution
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Twenty-one right-wing Israeli lawmakers rebuffed a House bill that endorsed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while rejecting efforts to boycott the Jewish state. In a letter addressed to U.S. Reps. Brad Schneider, Lee Zeldin, Jerry Nadler and Ann Wagner, the co-sponsors of the bill and staunch supporters of Israel, the…
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Fast Forward White Supremacists Committed At Least 73 Murders Since Charlottesville: ADL
(JTA) — White supremacists have committed at least 73 murders since the far-right rally two summers ago in Charlottesville, Virginia. That comes from a report released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League that says 39 of the killings were “clearly motivated by hateful, racist ideology.” The violence of the Unite the Right rally has led to…
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Fast Forward France Promised Not To Harm Palestinian Terrorists Who Killed Jews
(JTA) — France agreed not to target Palestinian terrorists who killed French Jews in Paris in 1982 if they refrain from carrying out further attacks on French soil, a former top spy revealed. Yves Bonnet, who headed the now-defunct DST service in the 1980s, said this in January to a judge investigating the 1982 attack…
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Fast Forward Historic Synagogue Overrun By Squatters Returned To Local Jewish Community
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — A Buenos Aires synagogue inaugurated in 1907, one of the first in Argentina, was recovered after 20 years of being overrun with squatters. The synagogue is located in the La Boca area, the city’s original port, where the first Jewish immigrants from Europe originally settled. After the death of the rabbi…
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