Marcy Oster
By Marcy Oster
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Fast Forward Jewish quarterback Josh Rosen signed by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
(JTA) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed Jewish quarterback Josh Rosen, a No. 1 draft pick in 2018, to their practice squad, ESPN is reporting. Rosen was released Friday by the Miami Dolphins on Friday after unsuccessful attempts to trade him. The Bucs, who signed former New England Patriots star Tom Brady in the…
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Israel News Saudi Arabia: No normalization with Israel until peace with Palestinians
(JTA) — The king of Saudi Arabia has thrown cold water on the assurances of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump who is leading Middle East policy, that all Arab countries will follow the United Arab Emirates’ lead and normalize ties with Israel. Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz said his country would…
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Fast Forward Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls former White House colleague a ‘foulmouthed Jew’
(JTA) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her new book refers to a former colleague as a “liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew from New York City.” Sanders says she and Josh Raffel, a senior White House communications official in 2017 and 2018, later became good friends. He also was a spokesperson for…
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Fast Forward ‘Filthy Zionist agents:’ Iran’s Khamenei singles out Jared Kushner
(JTA) — Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called out Jared Kushner as “the Jewish member of Trump’s family” in attacking the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Khamenei made the comment on the White House senior adviser as part of a series of tweets on his English-language Twitter feed. “The nation…
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Israel News Kushner: 100% sure all Arab countries will normalize ties with Israel
(JTA) — Jared Kushner says he’s “100%” sure that all the Arab countries will follow the United Arab Emirates in formalizing ties with Israel. The White House senior adviser, an architect of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, made the assertion on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi as delegations from Israel and the United States…
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Fast Forward Man charged in attempted mugging of 84-year-old NYPD rabbi
(JTA) — A man believed to be homeless was arrested nearly 12 hours after New York Police Department’s chief chaplain, Rabbi Alvin Kass, was mugged during his daily early morning walk on the city’s Upper West Side. Rafael Diaz, 39, was taken into custody on Tuesday while in possession of a crack pipe, WABC-TV reported….
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Fast Forward Pompeo cancels plan to film Trump ad in Israel
(JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled plans to film a campaign ad in Israel to encourage Americans living there to vote for President Donald Trump. The decision not to participate in the campaign by Republicans Overseas Israel followed the uproar over Pompeo’s prerecorded message from Jerusalem to last week’s Republican National Convention, and…
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Fast Forward Congressman posts manipulated video of Jewish health activist Ady Barkan, Joe Biden talking
(JTA) — A video of a discussion between health care activist Ady Barkan and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was doctored to make it appear that Biden had agreed to defund police departments. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the majority whip, tweeted out the video, which Twitter later flagged as manipulated before Scalise deleted it. .@SteveScalise,…
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