Noa Wollstein is a senior at Princeton University pursuing degrees in English, Documentary Production, and Journalism.
Noa Wollstein
By Noa Wollstein
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Fast Forward The Jewish Agency will carry your High Holiday prayer to the Western Wall
The Jewish Agency for Israel is gathering prayers from Jews across the globe to place amid the stones of the Western Wall during the High Holiday season. Though COVID-19 has led to travel restrictions and limited access to the holy site, the Agency is helping worshippers keep the centuries-old tradition alive from the safety of…
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News RBG cherished the separation of church and state. Will her potential replacement do the same?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing on Friday, September 18 elicited nationwide mourning and an immediate promise by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to vote on a Trump-nominated justice despite the fast-approaching November elections. Approval of Trump’s appointee would cement a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. Democrats and a few Senate Republicans have…
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News ‘Car Nidre:’ These synagogues are taking High Holidays to the parking lot
Parking lots get a bad rap. There’s even a Joni Mitchell song about how awful they are: “Don’t it always seem to go/ That you don’t know what you’ve got/ ‘Til it’s gone/They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot.” And the 2019 movie “Isn’t it Romantic?” Rebel Wilson played a lovelorn architect whose parking…
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Fast Forward Trump campaign ad evokes antisemitic trope by casting Bernie Sanders as puppet master
The Trump campaign ran a Facebook advertisement depicting Senator Bernie Sanders as a puppet master controlling presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday, one of a series of similar ads depicting politicians, including former president Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, as puppeteers manipulating Biden. The trope of the “puppet master Jew” has…
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News How to sing safely on the High Holidays — it’s not easy
Shorter services, held outside. Streamed services. Social distancing. In the era of the coronavirus, congregations across Jewish denominations have been forced to modify cherished High Holiday rituals in order to mitigate the risk posed by singing. It was a choir rehearsal in Skagit County, WA., which led to the infection of 53 members, that alerted…
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News White House press secretary shares her story about BRCA breast cancer gene
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany highlighted the BRCA 2 genetic mutation, a gene irregularity that increases the risk of breast cancer and disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jewish women, at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. “It was days before Christmas, and I was 21 years old when I got a call that changed my life,”…
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News Social media users debate tweet comparing racism in U.S. with Nazi Germany
A prominent journalist stirred up controversy Sunday night with a tweet comparing the United States’ racial past with Nazi Germany. Jemele Hill of The Atlantic praised the new book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, which compares the United States’ and Nazi Germany’s treatment of minorities. Hill’s tweet echoed the same comparison….
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Fast Forward Muslims in ICE detention forced to choose between pork or rotten halal meals
Civil rights organizations and law firms sent out a letter earlier today threatening legal action against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following complaints that Muslim detainees are being denied edible, halal meals at a Florida detention center. “During the pandemic, ICE officers at Krome [Service Processing…
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