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Lawmaker Who Wants To Rename Trump State Park Flooded With Anti-Semitic Hate
(JTA) — A New York assemblywoman has been receiving hate mail since proposing a bill that would rename Donald J. Trump State Park in honor of the counterprotester killed during the Charlottesville white supremacist rally. Nily Rozic, a Queens Democrat who was born in Jerusalem and moved to New York as a child, said she…
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Montana Town’s Jews Look Back On Year Of Fear — And Hope
Around the picnic tables at Whitefish City Beach on the final Shabbat eve of last month, the Montana town’s tiny Jewish community shared kosher hot dogs, veggie burgers and memories of terror. In a year when white supremacists have been ascendant, at least in their public profile, perhaps no community has been harder hit than…
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Ralph Friedman, New York’s Toughest Cop, Is Now A TV Star
(JTA) — There are almost as many reality cop shows on television as there are Real Housewives. “Cops” is the granddaddy of them all, in its 30th season, plus there’s “Night Watch” and “Live PD,” to name just a few. The newest is “Street Justice: The Bronx,” which premieres Sept. 19 on the Discovery Channel….
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The Top 10 Moments That Mattered To Jews In 5777
(JTA) — This Jewish year was not a quiet one, to say the least. From the tumultuous first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, to a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers, to a neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville that turned violent, to the twin weather catastrophes of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Jews, like…
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New York Police Officers Join Jewish Organizations To Send Hurricane Relief
In response to Hurricane Harvey devastating Houston, the greater southeast Texas and parts of Louisiana, the New York Police Department’s District 3 teamed up with Jewish community organization Amudim, the grocery store Seasons Kosher and other local Jewish organizations to send aid and supplies to where they’re needed most. As District 3 collected funds internally…
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Israel’s Supreme Court Rejects Push For Public Transit On Shabbat
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit that called for public transportation on Shabbat. The court on Monday decided not to hear the case, filed by several liberal groups and a left-wing Meretz party lawmaker, Tamar Zandberg, after it said that the filers had not properly requested the public transportation on Shabbat from…
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Gorka In Israel: ‘We’re Losing The War On Terrorism’
Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka told an Israeli audience that America is losing the war on terrorism, even as it helps sweep ISIS out of Iraq and Syria. In a keynote address Monday to the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel, the former counter-terrorism advisor to President Donald Trump, who recently left the White House amid…
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Tufts Activists Call Israel ‘White Supremacist’ In Alternate Guide To Campus Life
(JTA) — Tufts University’s Hillel is described as “an organization that supports a white supremacist state” in a student-written guide to activist life at the university. The Tufts University Disorientation Guide offers information on social, spiritual, health and academic resources at the Boston-area university, but singles out Hillel for opprobrium, calling it a “Zionist space”…
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British Chief Rabbi Tells Orthodox To Be More Open To Gays
(JTA) — British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis called on a meeting of more than 100 Orthodox rabbis to be more inclusive toward the LGBTQ community. On Tuesday, at his annual pre-High Holidays conference for the rabbinate, Mirvis also called for extra concern for other special groups as well. “Every person is precious. Single parents, women,…
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Israel Airstrikes Hit Syria Military Facility
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Syria said Israeli airstrikes targeted a military facility in the west of the country, killing two soldiers. Syria’s military confirmed in a statement that Israeli warplanes struck the site near the town of Masyaf after 2 a.m. on Thursday from Lebanese airspace. The statement warned Israel of “serious consequences” over the attack….
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Puerto Rico’s Small Jewish Community Prepares For Monster Hurricane Irma
The small Jewish community in Puerto Rico is preparing as best it can for the expected arrival of Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storm systems on record. “We’ve had just a few moments of some gusty winds, and some heavy rains for a short period of time. But this is going to increase…
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