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Fast Forward Man Charged With Hate Crime For Punching Hasidic Jew In Brooklyn
(JTA) — New York police have arrested a man alleged to have punched a Hasidic Jewish man in the head, and charged him with a hate crime. In addition to the hate crime charge, Eric Gerena, 32, who was arrested on Tuesday, was charged with assault in the third degree. The attack on Friday night…
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Fast Forward Brazil Arrests Israeli Head Of International Drug Smuggling Network
(JTA) — An Israeli drug dealer who leads a smuggling network was captured in Brazil after trying to escape extradition. Dany Treyger, 32, was initially arrested last week in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in Bolivia, and taken to Paraguay’s capital city Asuncion. He was expelled from Paraguay and handed over to Israeli authorities, who…
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Fast Forward Ohio State Students Vote Down Israel BDS Resolution
(JTA) — The Undergraduate Student Government of the Ohio State University voted down a resolution to divest from companies which “benefit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine,” and to boycott Israeli products. It failed Wednesday night by a vote of 7 in favor and 33 against. It would not have been binding on the university…
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Fast Forward Portugal Approves Memorial Day For The Victims Of The Inquisition
(JTA) — A Portugal government committee has approved the creation of a Memorial Day for the Victims of the Inquisition. The inquisition was formally established in Portugal in 1536. The date of the memorial day will be held on or around March 31, the official end of the Inquisition in 1821. Reconectar, the movement to…
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Fast Forward 101 Jewish And Pro-Israel Groups Ask Universities To Oppose BDS
JTA) — Stop academic boycotts of Israel. That’s the message from 101 Jewish and pro-Israel organizations that signed on to a letter sent Tuesday to 250 U.S. college presidents and chancellors whose institutions have previously said they reject such boycotts of the Jewish state. The letter, which was organized by the anti-Semitism campus monitor the…
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Fast Forward 3 Large Swastikas Spray-Painted In Brooklyn Neighborhood
(JTA) — At least three large swastikas were spray-painted in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The swastikas discovered Monday in Greenpoint were painted within a block of each other. Two were accompanied by the letters “WP,” which stands for White Power. Two of the swastikas later were crossed out with red paint and the words “No Hate” spray-painted…
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Fast Forward Brett Favre Duped Into Recording Anti-Semitic Messages
(JTA) — Quarterback Brett Favre and other celebrities were duped by a group of white supremacists into making videos that included coded anti-Semitic messages. The group behind the videos calls itself the GDL, or Goyim Defense League, using the Hebrew word for a non-Jew, BuzzFeed News first reported. It is a play on the ADL,…
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Fast Forward UN General Assembly Approves 6 Anti-Israel Resolutions
(JTA) — The United Nations General Assembly approved six anti-Israel resolutions including two that reject Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem. The resolutions were passed on Friday. The resolution on Jerusalem, which refers to the Temple Mount only by its Arab name of Haram al-Sharif and states that under Israeli administration of Jerusalem…
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