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Fast Forward ‘I Want Jexit!’ Written On American Federations Of Teachers Building
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Federation of Teachers said vandals defaced its headquarters in Washington D.C. with anti-Semitic graffiti. A number of areas around the building, including a wall, were yellow spray-painted on Tuesday and Wednesday with “I want Jexit!” an apparent anti-Semitic play on “Brexit,” Britain’s planned pullout from the European Union. Randi Weingarten,…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Video Mocking Nazi Salute Prom Photo Found In Same Wisconsin City
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic video was posted on social media and anti-Semitic fliers posted both, related to the Wisconsin high school students who made what appears to be a Nazi salute in a junior prom photo have appeared around the Baraboo community. A seven-minute video was posted on Sunday to the paid social networking website minds.com by…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court: Both Same-Sex Partners Named On Adoption Certificate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The names of both parents who adopt a baby in Israel must be registered on its birth certificate even if both parents are the same sex. Israel’s Supreme Court made the ruling on Wednesday in response to a lawsuit filed by a homosexual couple who claimed they were being discriminated against since…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Suspected Of Killing 2 Israelis Shot Dead By IDF
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian man suspected of killing two Jewish-Israeli co-workers at a factory in the Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank was killed in a shootout with Israeli forces who came to arrest him. Ashraf Naalwa, 23, was killed early Thursday morning after Israeli forces surrounded his hideout. He was armed when…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Soldiers Killed In West Bank Shooting Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israelis were killed and two seriously injured in a second shooting near a bus stop in the West Bank. The attack on Thursday morning occurred at a bus stop outside of the Givat Asaf settlement, about a mile down the same road from the settlement of Ofra, where in an attack…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Kill Suspect Of Terror Attack That Killed Newborn Baby
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces shot and killed the son of a West Bank Hamas leader suspected of involvement in the shooting attack outside of the West Bank settlement of Ofra that left 7 injured and a newborn baby dead. Four other Palestinian men alleged to have been involved in the attack also were…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Spokesman Resigns After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David Keyes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.S.-born foreign press spokesman, resigned Wednesday several months after allegations of sexual misconduct were reported in the U.S. and Israeli press. The accusations, made by a number of women, including then-New York State Senate candidate Julia Salazar, dated back to Keyes’ time as a human rights…
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Fast Forward Baby Born Prematurely To Mother Shot In West Bank Attack Dies In Hospital
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A baby born prematurely after his mother was shot during a drive-by terror attack in the West Bank died on Wednesday. Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital made the announcement of the baby’s passing. The boy had been delivered by cesarean section at 30 weeks gestation to save the life of his mother, Shira Ish-Ran,…
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