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Fast Forward Chicago Synagogue Targeted With Firebombs
(JTA) — An unknown arsonist attempted twice to set on fire a synagogue building in downtown Chicago, while vandals smashed the windows of cars parked outside of a synagogue on the far north side of the city. Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told reporters on Sunday that Chicago Police Deputy Superintendent Anthony Ricci ordered that…
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Fast Forward Palestinians To Boycott Kushner’s Peace Plan Launch: ‘We Were Not Consulted’
(JTA) — Palestinian leaders rejected a plan for an economic workshop announced as the first part of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan. The Palestinians say they were not consulted on the plan to hold the conference next month in Bahrain. Finance ministers and global and regional business leaders will meet June 25-26 in Manama…
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Fast Forward Ukraine’s New Jewish President: We Must Defend Our Land Like Israelis
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish actor and comedian, was sworn in Monday as president of Ukraine and said his nation must defend their land like Israelis. Zelensky took the oath of office reportedly on a copy of the country’s constitution and a 16th-century manuscript of the New Testament. “We must become Icelanders in football,…
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Fast Forward Netflix Drops Australian Comedian Who Joked About Nazi Gas Chambers
(JTA) — Netflix has dropped an Australian comedian who made jokes about the Holocaust and insulted a Jewish audience member who later complained in an email. Last month, Isaac Butterfield asked his audience at the Melbourne Comedy Festival to “imagine the joy of people when they heard the Jews were sent to the gas chambers,”…
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Fast Forward Al Sharpton Gives Controversial Talk To Reform Jews, Admits To ‘Cheap’ Rhetoric
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Al Sharpton appealed to Reform Jews for a united front in facing down anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of bias and acknowledged his role in stoking division, recounting how the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow reprimanded him for his “cheap” rhetoric. The civil rights activist and CNN host reportedly has expressed regrets privately…
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Fast Forward High School Jewish Club’s Sign Vandalized With Swastika
(JTA)– The Jewish Student Union sign at a Boston-area high school was vandalized with a swastika. The swastika was discovered Friday at Brookline High School, a public high school in a near Boston suburb, the CBS affiliate in Boston reported. “Anti-Semitic vandalism like this is a scary reminder that our work on fostering an inclusive,…
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Fast Forward German Parliament Says BDS Is Anti-Semitic, Compares It To Nazi-Era Boycotts
(JTA) — The German Bundestag is set to call the movement to boycott Israel anti-Semitic. The legislative body is expected to pass on Friday a non-binding resolution proposed by the four mainstream parties that calls to bar the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and any other group deemed anti-Semitic from receiving federal funds and from…
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Fast Forward Most Democrats Like Israel But Not Netanyahu: Poll
(JTA) – Most Democratic primary voters don’t follow news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all that closely, but have warm feelings about both Israel and the Palestinians. Those are some of the findings in a recent survey commissioned by the liberal pro-Israel group J Street. Four in five respondents agreed with the statement that “someone can be…
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