Andrea Cantor
By Andrea Cantor
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Fast Forward Montreal’s First Jewish Mayor Faces Sentencing on Extortion Charge
Michael Applebaum, Montreal’s first Jewish mayor, will learn today whether he will serve five years in prison on fraud charges. The former mayor faces 14 charges of fraud against the government for extortion committed in 2007 and 2012. Applebaum was serving as borough mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. During the two-week trial in November, Hugo Tremblay, Applebaum’s…
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News New York City Comptroller Links Jewish, Muslim Fates
“Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are here to stay,” thousands chanted in New York City’s Washington Square Park Wednesday night. As The Huffington Post reported, the protestors united to rally against President Donald Trump and his impending executive order that calls for a significant reduction of Muslims allowed in the United States. The…
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Fast Forward Jill Soloway Calls Out Male Filmmakers for Fetishizing Rape
Jill Soloway, the Jewish creator of the highly acclaimed Amazon show “Transparent,” had choice words about rape in film on January 22 at Geena Davis’s Bentonville Film Festival in Utah. As Vulture reported, Soloway sat on a panel to discuss gender equity last week at the festival. Soloway made a plea to male filmmakers to…
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Fast Forward Bicyclist Wearing Swastika Armband Unnerves University of Florida
A man wearing a swastika armband was spotted riding a bicycle on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville Tuesday, setting Jewish students on edge. The Alligator, the independent student paper, reported that coinciding with the incident, the Jewish Student Union was finishing up a day of Jewish Heritage Month promotion. Avichaim Snyder,…
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Culture Milo Yiannopoulos Publisher Hits Back Over Lucrative Book Deal
When infamous Breitbart senior editor and proponent of the so-called “alt-right” Milo Yiannopoulos was offered a $250,000 book contract deal from Threshold Editions, a Simon & Schuster imprint, authors, critics, and artists responded with fury. (The Chicago Review of Books, for instance, responded by announcing that it would review no Simon & Schuster titles in…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Wild Melee Erupts Between Hasids and London Traffic Cop
A wild brawl erupted between a group of Orthodox Jewish men and a London traffic officer after the cop allegedly ran over a man dressed in traditional Jewish clothing with his moped. “He revved up his bike and drove straight towards him at full speed,” a witness told The Sun. The witness said the traffic…
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Fast Forward Canada College Football Field Defaced With Swastika in Snow
A large swastika was found drawn into the snow on the football field Friday at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. “This really brought me back to reality that this is something that does exist and I do have to be concerned about it,” Laura Medicoff, head of the school’s Jewish Students Association, told…
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