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U.S. Student Denied Entry To Israel Over BDS Support Still Detained At Airport
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A U.S. student with Palestinian grandparents was denied entry to Israel despite a valid student visa due to her alleged involvement in the boycott movement against Israel. Lara Alqasem has remained in detention at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport since Tuesday as she appeals the decision. The Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday…
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Obama Endorses More Jewish Candidates As Elections Heat Up
Former president Barack Obama released a list of more than 200 endorsed candidates on Monday, including several Jewish candidates whose races could decide which party controls the House of Representatives. “Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, all across the country, make up a movement of citizens who are younger, more diverse, more female than…
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Gal Gadot To Star In New Agatha Christie Movie
(JTA) – Israeli actress Gal Gadot will star in 20th Century Fox’s “Death on the Nile.” The adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel featuring detective Hercules Poirot will be directed by Kenneth Branagh, Deadline first reported. Fox already has set a December 20, 2019, release date for the film based on the 1937 novel. Gadot…
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‘Are You Jewish?’ He Was Asked, Then Attacked.
(JTA) — Two unidentified men in Berlin hit a Dutch national and then kicked him after asking him if he was Jewish, a German newspaper reported. The incident happened Saturday morning in the Spandauer Vorstadt area in Berlin, Der Tagesspiegel reported. The 31-year-old alleged victim, who is not Jewish and living in Berlin, asked the…
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Antisemitic And Hate Messages On NJ Lawn Of Non-Jewish Supporters Of Candidate
(JTA) — Hate messages again were spray painted in front of the New Jersey home of a supporter of a Jewish candidate for Congress. It is the third time that the Hampton Township home of Adam Stolarsky and Colleen Murch has been vandalized since they hung a campaign sign earlier this month for the reelection…
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Real Madrid Honors Activist Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi
(JTA) — The world’s biggest soccer club honored activist Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi. The European champions Real Madrid welcomed the teen at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Saturday before the Madrid derby against Atletico Madrid. The team presented her with a Real Madrid jersey with her first name printed on the back. She was accompanied…
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Did Led Zeppelin Steal ‘Stairway To Heaven’ Riff? Appeals Court Orders New Trial.
(JTA) — A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ordered a new trial in a civil lawsuit against the British rock band Led Zeppelin, which accuses it of stealing the famous anthem used in “Stairway to Heaven” from another rock band. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the late Randy Wolfe, aka Randy…
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Holocaust Survivors Led Christine Blasey Ford’s Lawyer Debra Katz To Advocacy
As Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to share her allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, she will be accompanied by her lawyer Debra Katz, a civil rights attorney who has emerged as a prominent women’s advocate in the #MeToo era. Ford’s is just one of…
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Nazi Aerial Photos Are Helping Map And Preserve Jewish Cemeteries
LUBLIN, Poland (JTA) — When German air force pilots took aerial photographs of western Ukraine in 1941, they did it to help Nazi Germany defeat the Soviet Union in a war that saw the genocide of 6 million Jews. But in a twist of fate, the German government has recently started funding an effort that…
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California GOP Candidate Ron Cohen Defends 9/11 Conspiracy Tweets
A Jewish Republican running to oust an incumbent Democratic congressman in Silicon Valley doubled down on several conspiratorial statements during a conversation with the Forward, including that Barack Obama’s children have different biological parents and that the 9/11 terror attacks were an inside job used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Cohen, who is endorsed…
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Tom Arnold Scuffles With Mark Burnett Over Trump ‘Apprentice’ Tape
Actor Tom Arnold tussled with Reality TV maven Mark Burnett at a pre-Emmys party Sunday, September 16, and the story just keeps getting stranger. The fight, for which Arnold filed a police report Monday morning, appears to be regarding the long-rumored outtakes of Burnett’s show “The Apprentice” in which Donald Trump allegedly drops the N-word….
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