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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Leader Must Pay $14M To Jewish Woman He Helped Harass, Court Rules
(JTA) — The publisher of a neo-Nazi website who instructed readers to troll a Jewish real-estate agent will pay the victim $14 million, a federal judge said. US Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch’s ruling Monday also recommends that the court order The Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin to remove all posts and photos that he used…
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Fast Forward Trump Cites Israel To Defend Telling Congresswomen To ‘Go Back’ To Their Countries
(JTA) — President Trump said that his call for some Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to “crime infested” [sic] their countries was also in defense of Israel. Trump referenced Israel on Twitter Monday morning and Sunday, amid an outcry over the earlier tweet he made, which was racist and anti-immigrant because it implied that the…
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Fast Forward Body Of Rabbi Who Drowned After Rescuing Students Found
(JTA) — A body believed to be that of a rabbi who jumped into the ocean to save a student was found off the coast of North Carolina. Volunteers looking for Reuven Bauman, 35, found the body Sunday, five days after the teacher at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Norfolk, Virginia jumped into choppy water at…
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Fast Forward Netherlands Jewish Leader Tortured And Robbed At Home
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Netherlands Jewish leader was assaulted, tortured and robbed in his home by four masked men in an apparent planned operation. Benoit Wesly, a 73-year-old businessman, woke up early Sunday morning to find the assailants around his bed in his home in Maastricht, Jonet.nl reported Thursday. His wife was out of the country….
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Fast Forward Dogs Are Bad And Owners Are ‘Accursed,’ Israeli Orthodox Rabbis Rule
(JTA) — More than a dozen rabbis from the city of Elad near Tel Aviv issued an edict declaring all dogs bad and warning residents that keeping them will make them accursed. The edict, dated to June 14, contains the signatures of all the Sephardic rabbis in Elad, a city of about 46,000 residents where…
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Fast Forward Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled Ehud Barak’s High-Tech Investment
(JTA) — Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 bankrolled a large investment in high tech for Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who’s again running for office, Haaretz reported. The report Friday follows several revelations on financial ties between Epstein, a billionaire who was convicted in 2008 in the United States of soliciting a teenage…
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Fast Forward Vice President Mike Pence Visits Poway Synagogue
(JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen visited the Poway Chabad synagogue where a far-right shooter killed one congregant and wounded three others in April. “We had to come,” Pence told Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was one of those injured in the attack. Before putting on a kippah and entering the synagogue…
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Fast Forward Acosta Resigns Amid Claims He Let Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Off The Hook
(JTA) — Alexander Acosta quit as Secretary of Labor amid allegations that he helped arrange a lenient plea deal for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008. President Donald Trump announced the resignation Friday morning with Acosta at his side. Trump said the secretary called him Friday morning to say the decision to resign was his….
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