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Fast Forward Bibi’s Son Stars At Pro-Trump Student Group’s Jewish Conference In D.C.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Turning Point USA, a conservative student group that is most notable for its vocal advocacy for President Donald Trump, is hosting a conference here for young Jewish leaders that includes an address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair. Netanyahu, 27, is one of the more youthful speakers at the three-day Young…
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Fast Forward Extremist Jewish Power Party Leaves Right-Wing Alliance Ahead Of Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The extremist right-wing Jewish Power party, or Otzma Yehudit, said it will not run on the same list with the Jewish Home Party like it did in April. Otzma Yehudit said that Jewish Home was not honoring the terms of the merger agreement, including not requiring its Knesset members appointed last week…
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Fast Forward Jewish Wrestler Drew Gulak Wins WWE Cruiserweight Championship
(JTA) — A Jewish wrestler won the World Wrestling Entertainment cruiserweight championship. Drew Gulak, known as “the Philadelphia Stretcher,” beat Akira Tozawa and the reigning champion, Tony Nesse, in a triple threat match on Sunday, part of the Stomping Grounds pay-per-view in Tacoma, Washington. In a triple threat match, three wrestlers compete rather than the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Holocaust Museum Repeats ‘Unequivocal’ Opposition To Holocaust Analogies
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum reiterated its “unequivocal” rejection of analogies to the Holocaust in the wake of debate about concentration camps sparked by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The museum “unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,” the museum said in a statement….
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Fast Forward American Library Association Renames Dewey Medal Over Namesake’s Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Seems like the creator of the Dewey Decimal System, the book-classification method for libraries that bears his name, was out of order in his treatment of minorities and women. Now the Council of the American Library Association has voted to remove Melvil Dewey, the association’s founder, from its creative leadership medal because of…
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Fast Forward RBG Reads Out Loud Her Dissent To Ruling Allowing 40-Foot Cross On Public Land
(JTA) — The Supreme Court will allow a 40-foot memorial cross to remain standing on public land in Maryland. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not happy with the ruling Thursday and read her dissent out loud to emphasize her opinion. “By maintaining the Peace Cross on a public highway, the Commission elevates Christianity over other…
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Fast Forward American Tourist Attacked In Berlin After Telling Crowd He Was Jewish
BERLIN (JTA) — A 23-year-old American said he was hit in the face in Berlin after telling a group harassing him that he was Jewish. The man, described as a tourist, suffered a black eye in the incident, which he reported via a police website, according to news reports. Police are investigating the Tuesday night attack…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Tweets Link To Ocasio-Cortez To ‘Learn About Concentration Camps’
(JTA) — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, had a response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referring to migrant detention centers as “concentration camps.” “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the freshman New York Democrat had said Monday night in an Instagram Live video. “If that doesn’t…
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