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Fast Forward Washington man arrested for anti-Semitic threats against neighbor
(JTA) — A Washington state man was arrested on suspicion of making anti-Semitic threats against a neighbor who took in his 13-year-old child when the teen needed a place to live. According to the criminal complaint against Matthew Douglas Kane, he posted personal information about his neighbor online and threatened to harm her on multiple…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Group Leader Had Parts For Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’: FBI
Washington state law enforcement officials say the leader of a local neo-Nazi cell — the same group that was connected to the death of the Jewish teenager Blaze Bernstein — may have planned to manufacture untraceable weapons known as “ghost guns.” Kaleb Cole, who according to court documents is the admitted leader of the Washington…
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Fast Forward Washington Synagogue Housing Immigrant Family Facing Deportation
A synagogue in Washington state is housing a Guatemalan woman and her son whom immigration authorities are trying to deport, the Olympian reported Saturday. Maria Pablo Matias fled her country to flee domestic violence, but her asylum claim was denied, the newspaper reported. Rather than returning to Guatemala, she sought assistance from immigrants-rights organizations, who…
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Fast Forward Washington Synagogue Becomes Haven For Refugees
(JTA) — A synagogue in Olympia, Washington has become a haven for refugees. Temple Beth Hatfiloh, a Reconstructionist congregation with some 175 member families, announced on Wednesday evening that it has become a sanctuary congregation, working in conjunction with other regional faith communities and immigrant rights organizations. “In support of immigrant rights, the congregation pledges…
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Fast Forward Kim Schrier Leads Democrats In Bellwether Washington State Primary
Kim Schrier led a crowded Democratic field after the Aug. 7 primary vote in a Seattle-area swing district where liberal voter enthusiasm appeared to be high, in another sign of a so-called “blue wave” in the November midterm elections. Schrier, who is Jewish, was running in second in the “jungle primary” to Republican Dino Rossi,…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Group Spreads Hate Through Washington State—With Candy
Bags carrying candy and an anti-immigration message were found in residential neighborhoods in the Seattle suburbs last week, the Seattle Times reported. The bags, which included a message to “Keep America American,” were distributed around Bellevue and Clyde Hill and promote the website of Patriot Front, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a…
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Culture Of Starbucks, Courtney Love and 8 Other Things About (Jewish) Washington
1) 46,000 Jews live in Washington. 2) Edward Salomon became Washington’s only Jewish governor in 1870. 3) Elected in 1875, Bailey Gatzert became the first (and so far only) Jewish mayor of Seattle. 4) Washington’s first synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, was founded in Spokane in 1892. 5) Seattle’s Orthodox population is centered around the neighborhood of…
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