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Fast Forward Nazi-Looted Painting To Be Returned To Heirs Of Jewish Owner
(JTA) — A French court has ordered that an 1887 Pissarro painting be returned to the heirs of its Jewish owner after rejecting an appeal by an American couple who had sued to retain ownership. The current owners, Bruce and Robbi Toll, had lent the artwork, “La Cueillette des Pois,” or “Picking Peas,” to the…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Praises $38 Billion, 10-Year Defense Agreement With Israel
(JTA) — The Trump Administration praised the support for Israel shown in the new ten-year defense agreement signed in 2016 under President Barack Obama. The 10-year $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding went into operation on Monday, the first day of the new fiscal year. Under the memorandum of understanding, the United States will set funding…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Calls For Increased Safety Measures For Electric Bikes
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for increased safety regulations for electric bicycles after the death of the son of a prominent Israeli director. Ari Nesher, son of director Avi Nesher, was killed in a hit-and-run accident while riding his electric bicycle in Tel Aviv last week. He died on Thursday, three…
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Fast Forward UN Refugee Agency Employees Evacuated From Gaza Over Security Concerns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Most of the international employees of the United Nations refugee agency in the Gaza Strip were evacuated after what the agency called “a series of worrying security incidents.” Nine of the 11 members of the foreign staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency left Gaza for Israel though the Erez…
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Fast Forward Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick Says He Was ‘Very Mean Drunk’
(JTA) — Julie Swetnick, who last week became the third woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct as a high schooler, called him a “very aggressive, very sloppy drunk — very mean drunk.” Swetnick, who is Jewish, discussed her experiences with Kavanaugh in the early 1980s during an interview on Monday…
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Fast Forward Polish PM Slammed ‘Greedy’ Jewish Hedge Fund Owners In Secret Recording
(JTA) — Poland’s prime minister was heard making allegedly anti-Semitic remarks in secret recordings from 2013, before he rose to power. The recordings of Mateusz Morawiecki complaining to friends about “greedy” and rich “Americans, Jews, Germans, Englishmen and Swiss” that run hedge funds were published Tuesday by the news site Onet. Part of a corruption…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Drawn In Bathroom Of Indianapolis High School
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in a bathroom at a local high school near Indianapolis. Swastikas were discovered drawn on mirrors and a counter in a boy’s bathroom at Pike High School on Thursday, the Indianapolis Star reported. A similar incident occurred the next day in a restroom. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and…
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Breaking News ‘Are You Jewish?’ He Was Asked, Then Attacked.
(JTA) — Two unidentified men in Berlin hit a Dutch national and then kicked him after asking him if he was Jewish, a German newspaper reported. The incident happened Saturday morning in the Spandauer Vorstadt area in Berlin, Der Tagesspiegel reported. The 31-year-old alleged victim, who is not Jewish and living in Berlin, asked the…
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