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Fast Forward Netanyahu defends Trump: He’s not antisemitic, he has Jewish family
In an interview with MSNBC, Netanyahu explains that the former president simply feels unappreciated by American Jews for his unprecedented support for Israel
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Fast Forward A pro-Palestinian YouTuber tried trolling Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. Here’s what happened.
A viral video pressing Jews to account for the actions of Israel draws complaints — and thousands of Jewish viewers
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Fast Forward Barre Seid, secretive donor to pro-Israel causes, is behind $1.6 billion donation to conservative nonprofit
The New York Times reported that the donation is “among the largest — if not the largest — single contributions ever made to a politically focused nonprofit.”
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Fast Forward Couple’s Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises eyebrows — and renews questions about online services
“Set it and forget it” went wildly wrong at one Minneapolis-area synagogue.
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News 7 decades and 3 wars later, this 96-year-old Jewish journalist is still writing
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When Tom Tugend was 13 years old, he received news not uncommon for a teenager: His family was moving. His father, a respected physician, had taken a new job. During the taxi ride to the airport, Tugend looked out at his beloved hometown. All around him were trees and poles covered…
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Fast Forward Poway Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein pleads guilty to tax fraud
(JTA) — The rabbi who lost a finger in a shooting attack on a Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, in 2019 pleaded guilty to tax fraud. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme in which donors contributed to his synagogue but then got most of the money back, enabling the donor to claim…
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for suspected infection
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized with a suspected infection. A Supreme Court statement said Ginsburg, 87, “is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment.” Ginsburg was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday after “experiencing fever…
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Fast Forward U.S. cancels visa for Israeli who flew back and forth knowing he had COVID-19
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United States reportedly has cancelled a work visa for an Israeli man who flew home from Newark, New Jersey, despite knowing that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. The man did not notify the United Airlines crew that he had the virus when he boarded the fight, the Times of…
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