Sam Sokol
By Sam Sokol
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jewish School Installs Bullet-Resistant Doors To Thwart Would-Be Shooters
(JTA) — An Orthodox girls’ school in Brooklyn has installed bullet-resistant classroom doors to keep out shooters. Bnos Menachem in the heavily Hasidic Crown Heights neighborhood is the first of more than 50 Jewish schools and synagogues in Brooklyn to have the 150-pound metal doors installed by an Israel-based manufacturer, the New York Post reported…
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Fast Forward Sarah Silverman Says She Was Fired From Film Project Over Blackface Clip
(JTA) — Sarah Silverman said she was fired from a movie role after producers saw a clip of her in blackface, the Jewish comedian said in an interview on The Bill Simmons Podcast. “I recently was going to do two days on a movie, a sweet part in a cool little movie, then at 11…
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Fast Forward Canadian Paper Apologizes After Running Cartoon Seen As Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — A Canadian newspaper that ran a cartoon seen as anti-Semitic has apologized following backlash from the local Jewish community. The Edmonton Journal cartoon nearly two weeks ago by Malcolm Mayes was about a data breach that exposed personal information belonging to millions of Capital One customers featuring a “data hacker” sitting with a…
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Fast Forward More Than 100 Tires Slashed In Heavily Orthodox Lakewood, NJ
(JTA) — More than 100 car tires have been slashed in the heavily Jewish town of Lakewood, New Jersey, over the past several days. All of the cars involved were reported to belong to or be used by Jews, ABC News reported Monday. Security footage broadcast by ABC showed a person in a hoodie using…
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Fast Forward 21 Israeli Lawmakers Want Congress To Stop Supporting Two-State Solution
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Twenty-one right-wing Israeli lawmakers rebuffed a House bill that endorsed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while rejecting efforts to boycott the Jewish state. In a letter addressed to U.S. Reps. Brad Schneider, Lee Zeldin, Jerry Nadler and Ann Wagner, the co-sponsors of the bill and staunch supporters of Israel, the…
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Fast Forward Arab Sues After Israeli Police Plant Gun While Filming Reality TV Show
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An eastern Jerusalem resident is suing the Israeli police for planting a gun in his home while filming an episode of a reality television show. “Jerusalem District,” which purports to show the police in real-life situations and is produced by Israel’s public broadcaster, followed a team of officers late last year as…
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Fast Forward Israeli Fraudster Convicted By U.S. Court
(JTA) — An executive whose firm was an integral part of Israel’s multibillion-dollar binary options industry, which has scammed millions around the world over the past decade, was convicted of wire fraud by a U.S. court on Tuesday. Lee Elbaz, the CEO of Yukom Communications, who was arrested by the FBI in 2017, was found…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Meets With Head Of Ukrainian Party That Includes Neo-Nazis
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has come under fire in recent years for allegedly failing to confront anti-Semitism and revisionism in Central and Eastern Europe, met Wednesday with the head of a European political party whose membership includes ultranationalists and neo-Nazis. Oleh Lyashko of the Ukrainian Radical Party came to Jerusalem as part…
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