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Fast Forward Wisconsin Man Charged With Mailing Threats To Local JCC
(JTA) — A Wisconsin man was charged with mailing threats to a Jewish Community Center in the state. A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Chadwick Grubbs, 33, for mailing threats on three different days in May to the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. Grubbs already is…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Ethiopian Jews Will Be Brought To Israel, Leaving 7,000 Still There
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has decided to bring some 1,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura who have children living in Israel to the country. There are some 8,000 Falash Mura in Ethiopia awaiting permission to immigrate to Israel, most of whom have some family members in Israel. The Falash Mura claim…
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Fast Forward U.S. Cuts Refugee Numbers To Lowest Level In Decades, Drawing Jewish Criticism
(JTA) — The United States will cut the number of refugees that it will accept for 2019, to the lowest level set since the Refugee Act became law in 1980. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that up to 30,000 refugees will be resettled in the United States in 2019 under the new…
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Fast Forward U.S. Eliminates Funding For Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence Programs
(JTA) — The United States has cut $10 million of foreign aid money that was supporting coexistence programs between Israelis and Palestinians. The cuts were first reported Friday in the New York Times. It is believed to have been the last remaining U.S. aid for Palestinian civilians. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has frozen…
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Fast Forward Thousands Mourn Ari Fuld, Prominent Israel Activist Killed By Palestinian
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of Israels attended the late night funeral for U.S. born Israel activist Ari Fuld, who was killed in a terrorist stabbing attack. The funeral began at close to midnight on Sunday, less than a day after Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four, was stabbed to death by a teenage Palestinian assailant…
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Fast Forward Some Of The GOP’s Biggest Jewish Donors Are Abandoning The Party
(JTA) — One of the largest donors to the Republican Party in New England, Seth Klarman, is calling on voters to support Democratic candidates in the upcoming elections, and he put his money where his mouth is. Klarman, who is a registered Independent and stresses that “I’m not a Democrat,” told New York Times columnist…
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Fast Forward New York Town Is Buying Up Property To Keep Hasidic Jews Out
(JTA) — The supervisor of the Town of Chester in southeastern New York said the town is buying up available property in order to prevent future development by the Hasidic community. Chester Supervisor Alex Jamieson told the local newspaper the Times Herald-Record on Thursday that town residents fear that the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel…
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Fast Forward American-Israeli Activist Killed In West Bank Stabbing Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A father of four who was an activist for Israel was stabbed to death outside a shopping mall near Efrat, the West Bank town where he lived. Ari Fuld, 45, a dual American-Israeli citizen, was attacked late Sunday morning by a Palestinian teen in the Etzion bloc. He chased after his attacker…
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