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Fast Forward Cynthia Nixon Calls On Cuomo To Apologize For Mailer Calling Her Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon called on her primary opponent, sitting Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to apologize for a mailer paid for by the state Democratic Party headed by Cuomo which questioned her support for issues important to Jewish voters. Nixon, who is gay and attends Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue,…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Posted At 5 Bay Area Synagogues Just Before Rosh Hashanah
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic fliers were posted at or near five San Francisco-area synagogues ahead of Rosh Hashanah. The fliers, which included caricatures of Jews with big hooked noses rubbing their hands together, named the far-right website Daily Stormer, one of the internet’s most prominent anti-Semitic outlets. The Anti-Defamation League issued a community security advisory about the fliers…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Freezes $25 Million For Palestinian Hospitals
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Trump administration froze $25 million in funding to Palestinian hospitals in eastern Jerusalem. The decision to halt funding to the East Jerusalem Hospital Network, made up of six hospitals, came on Saturday, a week after the United States announced that it would halt all funding to the UNRWA, United Nations refugee…
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Fast Forward IDF Investigating Deaths Of Two Palestinian Teens During Gaza Border Protests
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli military said it would investigate the deaths of two Palestinian teens during protests on Israel’s border with Gaza. The teens were both shot in the chest by Israeli snipers, the Palestinian news agency Maan reported. They were identified as Bilal Mustafa Khafaja, 17, and Ahmad Misbah Abu Tyour, 16, who died…
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Fast Forward Budapest Synagogue Re-Opened After Centuries Of Disuse
(JTA) — A former synagogue in Hungary’s capital city that had not been used as a place of worship in centuries reopened as a Jewish house of worship in a ceremony attended by the country’s president. President János Áder attended the re-dedication and opening ceremony of Buda Castle Synagogue on Thursday as a guest of…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Posters Appear Around London After Labour Party Anti-Semitism Vote
(JTA) — Posters stating “Israel is a racist endeavor” appeared on bus stops in London a day after Britain’s opposition Labour Party voted to accept the international definition of anti-Semitism, but with a free speech clause on criticizing Israel. A section of the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, definition of anti-Semitism states that…
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Fast Forward Paraguay Embassy Is Leaving Jerusalem, So Israel Closes Its Embassy In Paraguay
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel closed its embassy in Paraguay following an announcement by the South American country that it was relocating its embassy back to Tel Aviv four months after moving to Jerusalem. The move comes as Paraguay joins the effort to bring peace to the Middle East. “Paraguay wants to contribute to an intensification…
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Fast Forward When An Old Synagogue Downsizes, What Do You Do With All Its Stuff?
ERIE, Pa. (JTA) — There was some debate about putting the old synagogue up for sale and moving to a new, smaller building, but not much. In 2012, a major pipe burst at Temple Anshe Hesed, and the cost of repairing the nearly century-old building convinced the small but resilient congregation that it was time…
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