Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward California Will Give Millions To Jewish Camps Destroyed In Wildfires
(JTA) — The newly passed California state budget includes a number of priorities backed by Jewish legislators, from rebuilding summer camps burned in wildfires to the construction of a new Holocaust museum. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the $214.8 billion budget on Thursday. The budget includes funds for health care, child care and combatting homelessness,…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Who Killed Woman In Charlottesville Sentenced To Life
(JTA) — The man who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer, has been sentenced to life in prison. James Alex Fields, Jr., a self-identified white supremacist, had pleaded guilty to the attack at the “Unite the Right” rally in August 2017, according to…
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Fast Forward New York State Bans Religious Exemptions To Vaccines
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York state has banned religious exemptions to vaccinations, meaning that parents must vaccinate their children unless there is a medical reason not to. The state Senate passed the bill Thursday amid an ongoing measles outbreak in New York City and the state largely involving members of the Orthodox Jewish community….
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Fast Forward Los Angeles Deli Denies Kicking Out Same-Sex Couple For Kissing
(JTA) — Langer’s Deli, a well-known kosher-style restaurant in Los Angeles, has denied kicking out a couple for sharing a same-sex kiss. A woman posted on social media this week that the restaurant’s owner, Norm Langer, kicked her and her partner out during their meal on Saturday after they kissed. The woman wrote in a…
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Fast Forward New York City Closes Tenth Jewish School For Violating Vaccine Order
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York City is shuttering an Orthodox school in Brooklyn because it has continued to admit unvaccinated students in violation of a city order. The Central UTA Satmar School for Boys, a hasidic school in the Williamsburg neighborhood, is being closed Tuesday afternoon for violating city orders regarding vaccines and vaccination…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Have Another Election After Netanyahu Fails To Form Coalition
(JTA) — For the first time in its history, Israel will hold a second national election in one year, four months after the last election in April. The Israeli Knesset voted at midnight Thursday to dissolve itself, triggering elections on September 17. The unprecedented vote happened after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to assemble a…
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Fast Forward Smashed Car Windows Outside Chicago Synagogue Weren’t Hate Crime, Police Say
(JTA) — The smashing of two car windows outside a Chicago synagogue was not a hate crime, according to local police. A suspect has been arrested in the vandalism this week in West Rogers Park, a neighborhood with a large Jewish population. It was among 14 similar incidents in the neighborhood that took place over…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Met With New York Times To Discuss Anti-Semitic Cartoon, Israel Coverage
NEW YORK (JTA) — A dozen rabbis from across the major denominations met with the publisher and editorial page editor of The New York Times regarding the anti-Semitic cartoon it published and its general coverage of Israel. The meeting Wednesday morning at The Times offices in Midtown Manhattan lasted an hour and a half and…
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