Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward Whoopi Goldberg says ‘The Holocaust isn’t about race’
(JTA) — In an awkward exchange with her co-hosts on “The View,” actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg claimed that “the Holocaust isn’t about race,” but rather about “man’s inhumanity to man.” The panel was discussing a Tennessee school board’s removal of the Holocaust book “Maus” from its curriculum earlier this month. All five co-hosts opposed…
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Fast Forward The great ‘Maus’ giveaway is on as bookstores, professors and churches counter Tennessee school board’s ban
(JTA) — A rural Tennessee school board’s decision earlier this month to remove “Maus,” the celebrated graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its curriculum has attracted fierce backlash from other pockets of the state and beyond. A nearby comic-book store is pledging to give away the book for free, an area church plans to hold…
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Fast Forward After 18 years, Ann Arbor condemns weekly synagogue protesters as antisemitic
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (JTA) – For 18 years, a group of protesters has gathered every Saturday outside one of this city’s synagogues during Shabbat morning services, brandishing signs with slogans such as “Jewish Power Corrupts.” This week, the city council of Ann Arbor for the first time issued a formal resolution condemning the protests as…
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Fast Forward The 2021 National Jewish Book Awards: Dvora Hacohen, Joshua Cohen, Dara Horn win big
(JTA) – Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Hadassah founder Henriette Szold won two honors, including Jewish Book of the Year, from the Jewish Book Council in their annual awards list. “To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah,” which includes a forward by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also was named best biography….
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Fast Forward Colleyville synagogue cofounder, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, sees reasons for optimism following hostage crisis
(JTA) — Jews around the world reacted with horror to last weekend’s hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. But Anna Salton Eisen had a deeper connection to it than most. Eisen was a founding member and first president of the congregation, and when her fellow congregants told her what was happening on…
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Fast Forward University of Michigan’s Judaic Studies center gets $1 million grant
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (JTA) — The University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies announced that it had received a new gift in excess of $1 million from local benefactors. The money will primarily be used to create a new full-time endowed professorship on the faculty. The gift comes from the estate of Stuart and…
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Fast Forward Cleveland Jewish News expands into Akron with acquisition of community paper
(JTA) – At a time when many local Jewish news outlets are scaling back or shuttering operations altogether, the Cleveland Jewish News is expanding its footprint for the second time in three years. CJN’s publisher, the Cleveland Jewish Publication Company, announced Dec. 21 its plans to begin serving the Jewish population of Akron, Ohio, after…
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Fast Forward The new owner of a San Diego Jewish news site has no qualms about blurring journalism and PR
(JTA) — Jacob Kamaras got the San Diego Jewish World for an absolute steal — $1, to be exact. The journalist and public relations executive bought the publication for that ceremonial price from its previous owner-publisher, Don Harrison, who founded the online outlet in 2009 and was looking to step down from day-to-day operations; Harrison…
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