CHAG SAMEACH!
SHINING CAREER
Veteran Yiddish actor Allen Lewis Rickman
performs in The Sunshine Boys.

MARCH 14, 2019 / 7 ADAR II, 5779
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LOCAL Barrack Teachers
Union Update
Union still seek-
ing dialogue with
school board.

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LOCAL Israeli Film Fest
Starts March 16
Films address
controversial issues.

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FAKE NEWS
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Can’t Use
In honor of Purim,
we showcase our
silly side.

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Volume 239
000 Number 48
0 Published Weekly Since 1887
Anti-Semitic Remarks
From Imam
Create Uproar
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
THE AL-AQSA ISLAMIC Society on
Germantown Avenue has come under
fire in recent days after video emerged
of a guest speaker, Imam Abdelmohsen
Abouhatab, making numerous anti-
Semitic comments to a crowded sanctuary
in visits to the mosque between November
and February.

Abouhatab described Jews as “the
vilest” people, and said that powerful
Jewish media figures have conspired to
portray Muslims as “oppressive and pred-
atory lions” in the mainstream Western
media, among other comments.

“The Jews are the vilest people in
terms of their moral values, their nature
and their violation of agreements, but
when they lived near Arabs, they adopted
some of their moral values and customs,”
Abouhatab said.

The videos were obtained, translated
from Arabic and released by the Middle East
Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a media
watchdog organization dedicated to trans-
lating and identifying hate speech in news
A student speaks before U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Marjorie Rendell.

Jesse Bernstein
Goldilocks on Trial:
Students Practice Civic
Engagement JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
ON THE 19TH floor of the James A.

Byrne United States Courthouse is the
Maris Courtroom, a cavernous space
designed with an eye toward sobriety and
seriousness. It is home to the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, high above
the city of Philadelphia.

On the morning of March 11, how-
ever, the courtroom played host not to an
appeal, but to a criminal trial of a young
woman accused of trespassing. In the end,
a jury of her peers found the defendant,
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