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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Praise Bill To Sanction Burma For Persecution Of Rohingya Muslims
(JTA) — Jewish groups applauded the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the Senate to sanction Burmese officials responsible for the persecution of the Rohingya people. The legislation calls for the United States to take a number of measures in response to the violence against the Rohingya perpetrated by the Burmese government. Sens. Ben Cardin,…
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Fast Forward Former AIPAC President Endorses Pete Buttigieg
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The dark horse Democratic presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, got a pro-Israel boost with the endorsement of Steve Grossman, the former president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Grossman, who in the 1990s was chairman of the Democratic National Committee as well as AIPAC president,…
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Fast Forward Conservative Rabbinical Group Appoints Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal As Its New Head
(JTA) — The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly appointed Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal as its new chief executive. Blumenthal, the spiritual leader at Shaare Torah in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will start in July, the organization announced Thursday. He succeeds Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the first woman to serve as chief executive of a major rabbinical organization. She announced in March 2018 that…
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Fast Forward BDS Student Government Vote Loses Again At University Of California, Santa Barbara
(JTA) — The student government at the University of California, Santa Barbara rejected an Israel divestment resolution. Santa Barbara is the only school in the University of California system whose student government has not passed a divestment proposal targeting Israel, according to the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus. It marked the sixth time in seven years…
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Fast Forward Swastika Burned Into Asphalt Near Denver School Playground
(JTA) — A swastika was burned into the asphalt near the playground of a Denver public elementary school. Gasoline was used to burn the anti-Semitic symbol at Ellis Elementary School on Monday night, the Denver Post reported. The swastika was covered up before students arrived at school the following morning, according to the report. The vandalism…
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Fast Forward Reform, Conservative Movements Ask Trump To Oppose Netanyahu Annexing West Bank
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nine Jewish groups, including five associated with the Reform and Conservative movements, wrote to President Donald Trump asking him to preserve the two-state solution in the face of a pledge by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex West Bank territory. The letter is unusual, if not unprecedented, in mainstream Jewish groups…
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Fast Forward 20 Religious Groups Call On Congress To ‘Stop Weaponizing Anti-Semitism’
(JTA) — Twenty faith groups — many of them Jewish — called on members of Congress to “stop weaponizing anti-Semitism” and said the issue should not be used to attack politicians from the other side of the aisle. In a letter sent Thursday, the organizations said they were concerned “about the use of anti-Semitism for…
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Fast Forward 18 Jewish Groups Urge Congress To Pass Bill Ending Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban
(JTA) — Eighteen Jewish organizations called on Congress to pass a bill seeking to end President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens of certain predominantly Muslim countries. On Wednesday, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., introduced bills in the Senate and House, respectively, to repeal three versions of the president’s travel ban….
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