Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Man Sues McDonald’s For Not Hiring Him Due To His Beard
(JTA) — A Jewish haredi man is suing McDonald’s, claiming the fast-food giant violated his freedom of religion when it refused to hire him because of his beard. The plaintiff, who sued Wednesday, is represented by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in his claim against McDonald’s restaurant in Longwood, Florida that turned down his 2016…
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Fast Forward Sanders Campaign Workers Say They’re Only Being Paid ‘Poverty Wages’
(JTA) — Unionized campaign organizers working for Bernie Sanders’ presidential effort complained that their employment terms fall short of Sanders’ rhetoric on labor standards. Campaign hires have demanded an annual salary equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders, a senator who is Jewish and who describes himself as a democratic socialist, for years has said…
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Fast Forward Howard Dean Sets Off Twitter Storm With His Thoughts On Jewish Suffering
(JTA) — Howard Dean, a former Democratic National Committee chairman and ex-governor of Vermont, said Israel’s government has “lost its soul and purpose.” Predictably, Dean’s tweet from Friday, which was inspired by an Israeli Cabinet minister’s endorsement of conversion treatment for gay people and his support of annexing the West Bank, set off a Twitter…
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Fast Forward Police Identify 3 Men Who Sprayed Water Guns On Synagogue Worshipers
(JTA) — Police in Teaneck, New Jersey identified three of four people suspected of a hate crime, in which they allegedly sprayed dark liquid on Jews near a synagogue. The three suspects, who are said to have used water guns to squirt the liquid on July 12 outside the Young Israel synagogue after Friday evening…
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Fast Forward 67 Labour Lawmaker Accuse Corbyn Of Giving The Party A Legacy Of Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Amid growing external pressure on Labour over its Anti-Semitism problem, more than a third of the British party’s upper house lawmakers signed an ad criticizing their leader, Jeremy Corbyn. “The Labour Party welcomes everyone* irrespective of race, creed, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. (*except, it seems, Jews),” reads the ad published Wednesday…
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Fast Forward New Oregon Law Will Require Schools To Teach The Holocaust
(JTA) — Oregon public school students will be required to learn about the Holocaust and other genocides under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kate Brown. The measure, which Brown signed Monday, was in response to spikes in anti-Semitic incidents across the country, CNN reported Tuesday. Beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, schools must…
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Fast Forward Portugal Approves 10,000 Citizenship Requests From Descendants Of Expelled Jews
(JTA) — Portugal has approved about a third of approximately 33,000 applications for citizenship under its 2015 law for descendants of Sephardic Jews, according to official data. Applications based on the 2015 law, primarily from Israel, Turkey, Brazil and Venezuela, are behind a 10-percent increase in applications in 2018, which saw 41,324 such requests in…
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Fast Forward Hamas Official Calls On Palestinians Abroad To Kill Jews
(JTA) — A senior Hamas official urged Palestinians abroad to kill Jews in Israel and beyond. “All of you 7 million Palestinians abroad, enough of the warming up. You have Jews everywhere and we must attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing, if God permits,” Fathi Hammad, a Hamas Cabinet…
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