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In a Discord group chat, Thomas Develin allegedly posted a photo of himself holding a handgun captioned: ‘I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem’
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Opinion Josh Mandel wants to be the next Marjorie Taylor Greene. He’s obscuring his Jewishness to do it.
Josh Mandel, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio, is an awful amalgam of Trumpism, neo-fascism and faux-nationalism all wrapped in one spiteful 5-foot-8-inch bundle. His own family can’t stand him. Most of that is just boiler-plate Republican politics at the moment. Sure, Mandel wants to be a clone of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor…
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News Professor claims Oberlin denied her tenure for being ‘another white woman from the Midwest’
It was like a bolt out of the blue. You should look elsewhere for a job next year, Alice Blumenfeld recalls Ann Cooper Albright, her department chair at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, tell her in July 2019 as the two discussed a tenure-track position that was being created the following year in the Dance…
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Fast Forward Doctor who said she would give Jews wrong medications loses medical license
(JTA) — The State Medical Board of Ohio permanently revoked the medical training certificate of a doctor who was fired from two residency programs after old anti-Semitic tweets surfaced — including one in which she threatened to give Jews the wrong medications. Lara Kollab is permanently prohibited from practicing osteopathic medicine or surgery in Ohio,…
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Fast Forward Swastika, graffiti spray-painted on Torah center in suburban Cleveland
(JTA) — A swastika and other graffiti were spray-painted on several buildings, including a Jewish organization, in a shopping strip in a heavily Jewish Cleveland suburb. We are horrified to see yet ANOTHER #antisemitic incident occur at a Jewish house of learning and worship. The Waxman Torah Center in #Cleveland, Ohio has been vandalized with…
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Fast Forward 2 Ohio Little Caesars employees fired for making pepperoni-swastika pizza
(JTA) — A Little Caesars restaurant in Brook Park, Ohio, has fired two employees who made a swastika out of pepperoni slices on a couple’s pizza. So my husband stopped at #LittleCaesars for a quick bite, husband brings this home! I’m truly disappointed. This is truly saddening and disturbing and not funny at all! These…
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Fast Forward Ohio’s Jewish health director, who faced anti-Semitic backlash, resigns
(JTA) — Amy Acton, the Jewish Department of Health director in Ohio who came under fire for the stay-at-home orders to stem the coronavirus crisis, including armed protesters carrying signs with anti-Semitic messages, has resigned. Acton, whose resignation was official on Thursday, will become the chief health adviser to Gov. Mike DeWine. Since the start…
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