Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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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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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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