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Fast Forward This Rabbi Isn’t Happy A ‘Weed Cafe’ Is Opening Across From Her Synagogue
(JTA) — The Lowell Cafe in Los Angeles is set to make history in Los Angeles as the country’s first cannabis lounge. The West Hollywood Business License Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to allow it to open next month. According to the Los Angeles Times, customers will sit outside, surrounded by “lush greenery,” and be…
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Fast Forward Howard Dean Sets Off Twitter Storm With His Thoughts On Jewish Suffering
(JTA) — Howard Dean, a former Democratic National Committee chairman and ex-governor of Vermont, said Israel’s government has “lost its soul and purpose.” Predictably, Dean’s tweet from Friday, which was inspired by an Israeli Cabinet minister’s endorsement of conversion treatment for gay people and his support of annexing the West Bank, set off a Twitter…
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Fast Forward 67 Labour Lawmaker Accuse Corbyn Of Giving The Party A Legacy Of Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Amid growing external pressure on Labour over its Anti-Semitism problem, more than a third of the British party’s upper house lawmakers signed an ad criticizing their leader, Jeremy Corbyn. “The Labour Party welcomes everyone* irrespective of race, creed, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. (*except, it seems, Jews),” reads the ad published Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Calling Holocaust ‘Fake News’ Posted At Synagogue
BOSTON (JTA) — Two anti-Semitic fliers that deny the Holocaust were posted at a Massachusetts synagogue, with reports of similar incidents at synagogues in two other states. Police are investigating what the Anti-Defamation League described as a coordinated campaign by a national online white supremacist group. The fliers at Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, a town…
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Fast Forward Israel Has Almost As Many Religious Restrictions As Iran: Report
(JTA) — When it comes to restrictions on religious freedom, Israel is in the company of countries like Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran, a new report says. The report also noted a rise in restrictions on Jewish practice in Europe, as well as an increase of attacks on Jews. It said Jews were harassed in…
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Fast Forward Hamas Official Calls On Palestinians Abroad To Kill Jews
(JTA) — A senior Hamas official urged Palestinians abroad to kill Jews in Israel and beyond. “All of you 7 million Palestinians abroad, enough of the warming up. You have Jews everywhere and we must attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing, if God permits,” Fathi Hammad, a Hamas Cabinet…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Leader Must Pay $14M To Jewish Woman He Helped Harass, Court Rules
(JTA) — The publisher of a neo-Nazi website who instructed readers to troll a Jewish real-estate agent will pay the victim $14 million, a federal judge said. US Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch’s ruling Monday also recommends that the court order The Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin to remove all posts and photos that he used…
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Fast Forward Trump Cites Israel To Defend Telling Congresswomen To ‘Go Back’ To Their Countries
(JTA) — President Trump said that his call for some Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to “crime infested” [sic] their countries was also in defense of Israel. Trump referenced Israel on Twitter Monday morning and Sunday, amid an outcry over the earlier tweet he made, which was racist and anti-immigrant because it implied that the…
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