Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward Michigan state House candidate has shared antisemitic posts, including one calling feminism ‘a Jewish program to degrade white men’
(JTA) — Robert Regan, the Republican nominee for a safely conservative state House seat in Michigan, has frequently re-posted antisemitic content and shared his own extreme views on Jews. Regan is in a good position to win a May 3 special election for a vacant seat representing Kent County, Michigan’s 74th state district, after winning…
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Fast Forward Simeon Maslin, influential Philadelphia rabbi who brought tradition back to Reform Jews, dies at 90
(Philadelphia Jewish Exponent via JTA) – Rabbi Simeon “Shim” Maslin, a national leader in the Reform movement who pushed Reform Jews to embrace lifecycle traditions and a more substantive interpretation of mitzvah, died from cancer on Jan. 29. He was 90. Maslin was the senior rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania,…
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Fast Forward ‘The Boy In The Striped Pajamas,’ decried for its Holocaust inaccuracies, is getting a sequel
(JTA) — A best-selling children’s novel that the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has said “should be avoided by anyone who studies or teaches about the history of the Holocaust” is getting a sequel. John Boyne, the Irish author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” announced Wednesday that he would be publishing a follow-up to…
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Fast Forward Israel Studies at U of Washington will remain despite return of $5 million gift, school says
(JTA) – The University of Washington won’t actually have to curb its Israel studies program after giving back a $5 million gift to a donor who was unhappy about the program’s direction. In fact, the university says, rescinding the gift — an unusual move in academia — is actually safeguarding the program’s future. “The university…
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Fast Forward Following outcry, Duke University student government recognizes campus Zionist group
(JTA) — Duke University’s student government granted recognition to a Zionist student group, reversing an earlier decision that had provoked the ire of some national Jewish organizations and a legal threat to the university administration. In 2021, Duke’s student body president had vetoed a request for recognition by the Duke chapter of Students Supporting Israel…
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Fast Forward In Miami, a selective new Jewish school hopes to attract top students
(JTA) – A brand-new, $50 million campus. A month in Israel every year. And a program to help students turn their social-service ideas into fully fledged nonprofits. These are just some of the perks offered by the Jewish Leadership Academy, a new Jewish day school in Miami that aims to merge traditional Jewish learning with…
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Fast Forward Louisville Jewish politician ‘traumatized again’ by the release of his assailant, as his case becomes fodder for bail debates
(JTA) – The Jewish mayoral candidate in Louisville, Kentucky, who was the target of a shooting Monday said the release of the alleged gunman has left him and his family “traumatized again.” “Our criminal justice system is clearly broken. It is nearly impossible to believe that someone can attempt murder on Monday and walk out…
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Fast Forward Whoopi Goldberg returns to ‘The View’ after suspension over Holocaust comments
(JTA) — Whoopi Goldberg returned to her hosting chair on “The View” Monday after a two-week suspension for her much-criticized comments about the Holocaust, pledging to “keep having tough conversations.” “I listened to everything everybody had to say, and I was very grateful,” Goldberg told her viewers in a brief address at the top of…
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