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Fast Forward D.C. Will Rename Street By Russian Embassy To Honor Slain Jewish Kremlin Critic
(JTA) — In a move that Russian officials called a provocation, city authorities in Washington D.C. advanced the naming of a street adjacent to the Russian embassy street for a murdered Jewish Kremlin critic. The Council of the District of Columbia on Tuesday unanimously approved plans to create Boris Nemtsov Plaza in honor of the…
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Fast Forward Washington’s New Bible Museum Is Long On Torahs — But Short On Jesus
The new Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is chock full of Torahs and cutting edge technology, but lacks the evangelical touch that many were expecting, the Washington Post reported. The $500 million museum, which opens next month, is funded primarily by the Green family, which owns Hobby Lobby, a conservative Christian group that…
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Fast Forward Bitter Feud Erupts Over Black Women’s March On Yom Kippur
A prominent feminist organization’s decision to join a march for black women scheduled on Yom Kippur has led to bitter infighting and accusations of racism and anti-Semitism between members, Buzzfeed News reported. The National Organization for Women, one of the oldest and largest feminist groups in the country, partnered with Blue Women’s Blueprint, Inc. for…
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Fast Forward ACLU Sues D.C. Metro For PETA, Milo Yiannopoulos Ads
What do Milo Yiannopoulos and the animal rights group PETA have in common? Not much, but both are coming together in a lawsuit against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority — commonly known as “Metro” — which prohibited them for advertising on the D.C. subway. What’s more, the American Civil Liberties Union is spearheading the…
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Fast Forward Populist Stephen Miller Lives In A Luxury Condo Complex Partly Owned By Qatar
Stephen Miller blasted a CNN reporter last week for his “cosmopolitan” bias, but the White House adviser looks like a consummate cosmopolite in his own right since the revelation that he lives in a luxury Washington, D.C., complex partly owned by a foreign government. Miller’s apartment is part of the CityCenterDC complex, a sleek new…
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Fast Forward Sean Hannity Will Skip Award Ceremony Amid Seth Rich Backlash
Sean Hannity will skip a prestigious right-wing media award ceremony amid growing backlash to his obsession with conspiracy theories swirling around the 2016 murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich. According to CNN, Hannity will not be at the conservative Media Research Center’s September gala to receive the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence in…
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Fast Forward Spokane Rabbi Targeted By Anti-Semites After Advertising Holocaust Event
A Spokane, Wash. rabbi is facing online anti-Semitism after advertising a Holocaust memorial event on Facebook. “It’s not a good feeling to have hundreds of Jew haters verbally attack you,” said Rabbi Yisroel Hahn, who had created a Facebook page to advertise an upcoming speaking event of Holocaust survivor Marthe Cohn. Hahn told local TV…
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Fast Forward Israel Paying $750,000 In Rent For Ambassador While Residence Stands Vacant
Why is the official residence of Israel’s ambassador in Washington sitting empty for the past 4 years? A Haaretz investigation found that the residence, in Washington’s Forest Hills neighborhood, was left untouched since the previous ambassador Michael Oren returned to Israel in 2013. His successor, Ron Dermer, who is Orthodox and who has a larger…
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