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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman Now Works For A Chinese Company He Used To Slam
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In 2010, Sen. Joe Lieberman fretted that the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE might be spying on Americans. Nearly a decade later, Lieberman as a lobbyist is working for ZTE to see how the company can alleviate the kind of concerns raised by the then-senator. The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Lieberman, then…
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Fast Forward Newsweek Reporter Calls ‘Israel, Mossad, Chabad’ Journalism’s ‘Third Rail’
(JTA) — A national politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, tweeted that Israeli- and Jewish-linked organizations — along with Israel itself — are on “the third rail of American journalism.” The tweet was in response to a thread by author Sarah Kendzior listing several stories she said were “undercovered.” A few of the stories involved…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Asked To Help Select New World Bank Head
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump will assist U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in choosing the new head of the World Bank. Trump, the Jewish daughter of President Donald Trump, had been rumored to be a contender for the position, The New York Times reported. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced last week that he was…
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Fast Forward Israeli Divers To Search Danube River For Remains Of Holocaust Victims
(JTA) — Divers from Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue will begin to search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims. The work, which was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, comes nearly 75 years after tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in October 1944 were shot on the banks of the…
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News This Congressman Was The Only One To Vote Against An Anti-Semitism Monitor
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Chris Smith, the New Jersey Republican who is trying to push through a bill that would enhance the role of the anti-Semitism monitor, put out a news release minutes after it passed the U.S. House of Representatives and noted it was approved “overwhelmingly.” Legislators love to describe support for their bills as…
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Fast Forward Southern Poverty Law Center Leaves National Women’s March
(JTA) — The Southern Poverty Law Center and a major Reform synagogue in New York have disassociated themselves from this year’s Women’s March. Top leaders of the main organization have been accused of engaging in or condoning anti-Semitism, of not cutting ties with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and of failing to heed the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man ‘Violently Assaulted’ In Crown Heights
(JTA) — A Jewish man was attacked by a group of teenage black males in Crown Heights. The young man, 19, was “violently assaulted,” Collive reported, and is being investigated by the New York Police Department in conjunction with the Hate Crimes Task Force. One member of the group of teens approached the Jewish man…
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Fast Forward Julian Edelman Raises $10K For Pittsburgh Victims By Selling Cleats
BOSTON (JTA) — A California firm paid $10,000 for a pair of Julian Edelman’s game shoes to benefit families of the victims of the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. The New England Patriots’ wide receiver wore the cleats — stamped with the words “The Tree of Life” in Hebrew and an Israeli…
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