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Fast Forward Connie Kurtz, LGBT Activist, Dies At 81
(JTA) — LGBT activist Constance Kurtz, whose lawsuit against the New York City Board of Education led eventually to domestic partner benefits for all New York City employees in 1994, has died. Kurtz, known as Connie, died in the West Palm Beach, Florida, home that she shared with her life partner, Ruthie Berman, on Sunday. She…
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Fast Forward Want An Eleanor Roosevelt Letter Defending Israel? Bidding Starts At $22,500.
(JTA) — A 1957 letter written by Eleanor Roosevelt in which the former first lady vigorously defends Israel’s actions during the Suez Crisis is being auctioned off. Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles will start the bidding on Thursday at $22,500. The letter, written on her personal “Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt” letterhead, responds directly…
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Fast Forward 23% Of Brits ‘Unwilling’ To Have A Jew In The Family
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Nearly a quarter of British respondents to a poll on attitudes to minorities in Western Europe said they would be unwilling to accept Jews as family members. The Pew Research Center’s report titled “Being Christian in Western Europe” was published Wednesday and contains results from interviews with more than 24,000 randomly selected…
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Fast Forward Southern Israel Residents Spend Night In Bomb Shelters As Warning Sirens Blare
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sirens warning of rockets and mortars launched from Gaza sounded throughout the night Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, sending residents of southern Israel running for bomb shelters and safe rooms. No one was injured in the barrages of projectiles fired overnight at southern Israeli communities. A private home in the southern Israeli…
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Fast Forward Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens Resigns Amid Sex Scandal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Eric Greitens, the Republican governor of Missouri who for months has faced the threat of impeachment in part because of charges stemming from a sex scandal, has quit. “Let’s walk off the battlefield with our heads held high,” Greitens, 44, said Tuesday evening in a livestreamed announcement. He maintained his insistence that…
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Fast Forward Gal Gadot Turns Down Invitation To Host Eurovision In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot turned down an offer to host the Eurovision Song Contest next year in Israel. Her agency said she could not host the contest after an invitation to do so by Israel’s Kan network due to a scheduling conflict, Ynet reported. “Gal would be happy to host and take…
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Fast Forward Macron Recognizes 2003 Slaying Of French Jew As Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron said that anti-Semitism was the reason for the deadly stabbing in 2003 of a young Jew whose killer was found unfit to stand trial. Macron said this in a letter dated May 20 to Meyer Habib, a French-Jewish lawmaker who last month wrote the president to request belated recognition…
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Fast Forward Fire Outside Oxford’s Jewish Student Center Is ‘Display Of Hate’
(JTA) — In two anti-Semitic incidents involving the same Jewish community center in the British university city of Oxford, perpetrators spread white powder and started a fire outside the building. Talcum powder was flung over the garbage bins at the Chabad Student Centre Wednesday and offensive letters left at the building, the This is Oxforshire daily newspaper…
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