Sam Sokol
By Sam Sokol
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Fast Forward Dershowitz Says His Accuser Did ‘Terrible Disservice’ To #MeToo Movement
(JTA) — Denying allegations of sexual assault, the prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz lashed out at one of his accusers, claiming that she fabricated her claims and was tarnishing the #MeToo movement. “I’ve never met Virginia Giuffre. I’ve never had sex with her. And the reason I’m saying it is because it’s true,” NBC News quoted…
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Life A Walk Through Jericho — Hours Before Israel’s Elections
The Biblical city of Jericho, located among the barren hills of the Judean Desert just north of the Dead Sea, was quiet on Monday. Schoolchildren smiled and joked as they made their way through the dusty streets and vendors sat in the shade outside their stores, smoking cigarettes and waiting for their next customers. A…
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Fast Forward David Hertz, Who Uses Food For Social Change, Wins $100K Bronfman Prize
(JTA) — David Hertz, a Jewish social entrepreneur from Brazil, was named the winner of the 2019 Charles Bronfman Prize on Wednesday in recognition of his efforts to alleviate global hunger. The award comes with $100,000 in prize money. Hertz is the cofounder of Gastromotiva, a Brazilian-based organization that fights unemployment and social inequality and…
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Fast Forward Likud Politician Offers Deal That Would Nix Egalitarian Prayer At Western Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Likud lawmaker close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to prevent egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall in exchange for a small ultranationalist faction dropping out ahead of this month’s Knesset election. The move would anger non-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, for whom the right to pray at…
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Fast Forward Two Weeks After Surviving Terror Attack, Israeli Teen Becomes A Medic
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli teen who was wounded in a Palestinian terror attack last month received his EMT certification on Thursday, only days after being released from the hospital. Dvir Shnerb, 19, was seriously injured in the Aug. 3 attack, which killed his sister, Rina, 17, and injured his father. The family, from Lod,…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Cancels Mock Trial With Dershowitz Defending Trafficking Suspect
(JTA) — A prominent New York synagogue has canceled a planned event featuring a mock trial in which prominent Jewish jurist Alan Dershowitz was to defend biblical characters accused of “kidnapping and child trafficking.” Temple Emanu-El’s decision came several days after Jeffrey Epstein, a former Dershowitz client and associate, was found hanged in a New…
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Fast Forward Former Jerusalem Mayor Says He’s Open To Meeting Tlaib, Omar
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Knesset member Nir Barkat, a former mayor of Jerusalem, said he would be willing to meet with U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib if they are willing to “learn and listen.” Both Omar and Tlaib have been intensely critical of Israel and have courted allegations of anti-Semitism from some Jewish Americans….
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Fast Forward Dershowitz’s New Trial: Defending Bible Characters Accused Of Child Trafficking
Update, August 15: Temple Emanu-El announced on Wednesday that the event had been cancelled. (JTA) — Alan Dershowitz will take part in a mock trial event in which he will defend biblical characters accused of “kidnapping and child trafficking.” The celebrity lawyer will defend the brothers of Joseph in November at New York’s Temple Emanu-El….
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