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Fast Forward Daughter Of Prominent Reform Rabbis Killed When Truck Hit Her Bicycle
NEW YORK (JTA) — The daughter of two prominent Reform rabbis was killed while biking when she was hit by a cement truck in Brooklyn. Devra Freelander, 28, was struck on Monday at an intersection in the East Williamsburg neighborhood. The driver has not been charged so far, according to the New York Daily News. Police…
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Fast Forward Woman Charged For Threatening Detroit Hebrew Free Loan Employees
(JTA) — A woman who was arrested for making racially insulting phone calls to a Hebrew Free Loan organization in Detroit was charged with ethnic intimidation. The woman arrested in last month was identified by the Detroit Free Press as April Marie Bennett, 29, of Hastings, a small town of 7,300 in western Michigan. In…
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Fast Forward Outcry After Virginia GOP Candidate Posts ‘Concentration Camp’ Joke
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Republican running for the Virginia state legislature removed from his Facebook campaign page a meme that mocked comparisons of migrant camps to concentration camps. Paul Milde, running to be a delegate in Virginia’s 28th district, encompassing the town of Fredericksburg about halfway between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday posted…
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Fast Forward Israeli Equestrian Show Jumping Squad To Compete In Olympics For First Time
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli team will compete in equestrian show jumping for the first time at the Olympics. Israel’s four-rider squad, including a woman from New York and a man who twice represented his native Colombia, qualified Sunday for the 2020 Tokyo Games, narrowly defeating Poland during the Olympic qualifier in Moscow. Along with…
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Fast Forward Republicans Donate To Marianne Williamson To Keep Her In Democratic Debates
(JTA) — Republicans are opening up their checkbooks to keep Jewish self-help author Marianne Williamson in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. It’s not they are falling in line with her idea to “harness love” to defeat President Donald Trump. It’s that they want to keep her in future Democratic debates. For her…
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Fast Forward Teacher Praised Hitler In Yearbook; Superintendent Says It Was ‘Out Of Context’
(JTA) — A school district in New York has recalled its yearbook after a new teacher appeared to call Adolf Hitler his favorite person in history in a yearbook interview. The student body of Whiteville Central School District in Allegheny County is 98.9 percent white, the Olean Times Herald reported. Asked who his favorite person in history…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority Arrests, Releases Businessman Who Attended Peace Summit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian Authority arrested and released the next day a Palestinian businessman from the West Bank city of Hebron who attended the United States-sponsored economic summit in Bahrain. Saleh Abu Mayala was arrested on Friday night upon his return home from Bahrain by Palestinian intelligence forces and released by Saturday night, according…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Candidate Accused Of Adopting Jewish Husband’s Surname To Win Election
(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish judicial candidate in Brooklyn says one of her opponents changed her last name to that of her Jewish husband in order to win the race. Civil court judicial candidate Caroline Piela ran for office under the last name Cohen, which she officially changed in February just weeks before she announced…
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