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Fast Forward Texas Jewish Food Truck Vandalized In Alleged Hate Crime
(JTA) — A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $12,000 to help the owner of a Texas food truck that serves kosher-style food after it was vandalized in an anti-Semitic attack. Scotty Grossbard opened his Jew Hungry? food truck in Austin, Texas eight months ago. It serves traditional Jewish foods, including matzo ball soup, latkes…
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Fast Forward Trump Says Anti-Semitism Is A Problem — But Doesn’t Have Any Solutions
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump said he rejects white supremacism and anti-Semitism, but did not say how he would counter the phenomena and angrily rejected claims that his rhetoric spurs division. Reporters peppered Trump with questions about a range of issues in a free-wheeling press conference on Wednesday after Trump’s Republican Party lost control…
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Fast Forward Teens’ Anti-Semitic Attacks In Brooklyn Caught On Video
(JTA) — The New York Police Department is circulating surveillance video of a group of preteens and teens that it says has carried out a series of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn. The incidents include a metal pipe thrown through the window of a synagogue in the Hasidic neighborhood of Williamsburg on Nov. 3 during afternoon…
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Fast Forward French President Emmanuel Macron Praises Nazi Collaborator As ‘Great Soldier’
(JTA) — President Emmanuel Macron of France praised a Nazi collaborator and defended his plan to honor him, sparking the first major disagreement between mainstream French Jewish community leaders and Macron since his election last year. On Wednesday, Macron called Philippe Petain “a great soldier” in speaking to reporters amid criticism over his intention to pay homage…
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Fast Forward Jacky Rosen, Former Synagogue President, Wins Nevada Senate Seat
(JTA) — Jacky Rosen, a former synagogue president and a freshman Democratic Congresswoman from Nevada, defeated sitting Sen. Dean Heller. Rosen defeated Heller with 50.8 percent of the vote to Heller’s 45 percent. Rosen, a former software developer, was talked into running by former Sen. Harry Reid, who believed she was the likeliest challenger to…
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Fast Forward Producer Jason Blum Blasts Trump, Booed Off Stage At LA Israel Film Festival
(JTA) — Jewish producer Jason Blum was booed and had to be physically removed from the stage of the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles after he accused President Trump of fomenting rising anti-Semitism in the United States. Blum was onstage at the Steve Tisch Cinema Center, Saban Theater on Tuesday evening being honored with the…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Found In Office On University Of Rochester Campus
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic fliers were discovered in an office on the campus of the University of Rochester. The fliers were found on Monday morning on a printer at the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the university‘s River Campus, the local ABC affiliate 13WHAM reported. “Anti-Semitic messages were faxed to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Helped To Pass Florida Amendment Allowing Felons To Vote
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An amendment to Florida’s constitution that would restore voting rights for felons passed Tuesday with the help of Jewish groups that campaigned for the measure. Amendment 4 won 64 percent of the vote, passing the needed 60 percent threshold for passage. A number of Florida branches of Jewish groups, including the Reform…
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