Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Breaking News Iranian Jews pay condolences to assassinated General Qassem Soleimani
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Iranian Jews paid a condolence call at the home of assassinated general Qassem Soleimani. The delegation was led by Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, chief rabbi of the Iranian Jewish community. Representatives of other Iranian minority religions also made condolence calls. Members of Tehran’s Jewish community also attended the funeral, the Hebrew-language haredi Orthodox…
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Breaking News New Jersey tourist gets trapped in luggage hold of Israeli bus
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An American tourist was trapped in the luggage hold of an Israeli bus traveling from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The 19-year-old from New Jersey called police from under the moving bus on Saturday night from his cell phone. Police, who tracked the bus using GPS, stopped the bus about 20 minutes later,…
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Culture Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault trial begins
(JTA) — Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein arrived at a New York court on Monday for the start of his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault. Weinstein used a walker due to recent back surgery as he entered the courthouse, according to reports. Jury selection in the case is scheduled to begin this week….
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Breaking News Jewish cemetery in southwest France vandalized
(JTA) — About a dozen graves were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in southwest France. The vandalism took place over the weekend in the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques area. The damage was discovered on Sunday by Déborah Loupien-Suares, the president of the Jewish community of Bayonne and Biarritz, who was visiting the…
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Breaking News New York synagogues offered phones that connect instantly to emergency services
(JTA) — Special phones that connect instantly to emergency services are being offered to New York City synagogues in the wake of a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the city. The phones, dubbed “shul phones,” are being offered by the Shomrim, a volunteer Jewish neighborhood patrol, the New York Post reported. The phone will allow…
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Breaking News Bret Stephen’s NYT Column On ‘Jewish Genius’ Was Fact-Checked, Editor Says
(JTA) — A controversial column by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, in which he cited a paper by a researcher who promoted eugenics, was edited and fact-checked, his editor said. The Times editorial page editor James Bennet, who hired Stephens after assuming his position in 2016, told Politico that all columns appearing in the…
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Breaking News Palestinian Teen Convicted Of Killing American-Israeli Activist Ari Fuld
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teen was convicted in a West Bank military court of murdering American-Israeli activist Ari Fuld. Khalil Jabarin, 17, from the village of Yatta, near Hebron, also was convicted on Monday in Judea Military Court for three other murder attempts. Jabarin stabbed Fuld, 45, a father of four, in the back…
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Breaking News German police prevent group from removing installation with ashes of Holocaust victims
(JTA) — German police prevented an activist group from removing an art installation believed to contain the ashes of victims of the Nazis. About 20 members of a group called the Performance Art Committee attempted to remove the gray cylindrical column erected in early December, the Associated Press reported Sunday. The column, said to contain…
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