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The Schmooze Joan Rivers Goes All Jersey on Anti-Israel Crowd
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Joan Rivers – GOES OFF on Epic Israel/Palestine Rant – Watch More Celebrity Videos or Subscribe Joan Rivers has come out in support of Israel in a big way. When asked by a TMZ reporter about the violence in Gaza and Israel, Rivers compared the situation to New…
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Opinion Two Neulanders — Two Dead Wives
(JTA) — Robert Neulander, a Syracuse, N.Y., physician active in his local Jewish community, was indicted this week in the murder of his wife. Whether the 62-year-old Robert Neulander — who chaired his local federation’s campaign and has served on the board of his JCC — is found guilty or innocent in the Sept. 17,…
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Fast Forward Gay ‘Conversion’ Therapists Could Be Liable for Damages, N.J. Judge Rules
A New Jersey judge has ruled that a Jewish gay “conversion” group could be liable for the costs of reversing the damage it caused four young men while trying to curb their same-sex attraction. New Jersey Superior Court Judge Peter F. Bariso, Jr. ruled that Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) and its co-defendants…
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Fast Forward Gang of 4 Rabbis Indicted in Orthodox Divorce Torture Extortion Scheme
Four Orthodox rabbis and one of their sons were indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap and torture Jewish men to force them to grant religious divorces to their wives. Rabbi Mendel Epstein and his son David Epstein, Rabbi Martin Wolmark, Rabbi Jay Goldstein and Rabbi Binyamin Stiller were charged Thursday in New Jersey federal…
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Fast Forward N.J. Rabbi David Wax Pleads Guilty in $100K Orthodox Agunot ‘Get’ Extortion
New Jersey Rabbi David Wax pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges as part of a scheme to force an Israeli man to give his wife a get. The rabbi admitted to being paid $100,000 to compel the man — identified by the Associated Press as Yisrael Briskman — to grant his wife a religious writ of…
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Fast Forward N.J. Sixth-Graders Make Offensive ‘Number the Stars’ Hallway Display
A New Jersey sixth-grade teacher was ordered to remove student-made posters from a hallway display following a complaint that one was anti-Semitic and offensive. An Orthodox Jewish staff member at the public school in Fairview had complained about the poster, NJ.com reported. The students had created the posters after reading “Number the Stars,” an award-winning…
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Fast Forward Chris Christie Apologizes to Sheldon Adelson for ‘Occupied Territories’ Remark
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a major GOP donor, for referring to the “occupied territories” in a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Christie met with Adelson privately on Saturday afternoon in Adelson’s Las Vegas office in the hotel which hosted the RJC meeting, Politico reported, citing an unnamed…
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