Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward As COVID spikes in NYC, Jewish schools and synagogues are going remote again
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Twenty-one months after New York City synagogues and Jewish schools became some of the first to close because of the encroaching COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in cases is causing them to shut their doors again. Several Jewish day schools have switched to virtual learning for the…
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Fast Forward Brad Lander, NYC’s next comptroller, says he will push Orthodox yeshivas to teach secular subjects
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Brad Lander, the incoming New York City comptroller, vowed to do everything in his power to coax Orthodox yeshivas to teach a secular curriculum. Lander, who is Jewish and a Democrat, discussed the issue Thursday night in a virtual Q-and-A with the New York Jewish Agenda, a progressive…
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Fast Forward Dozens of rabbis call on City Council to end solitary confinement in NYC jails
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Dozens of New York City rabbis, including leaders of some of the city’s largest synagogues, signed an open letter calling on the New York City Council to pass legislation ending solitary confinement in the city’s prison system. The letter, published Tuesday by the liberal rabbinic human…
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Fast Forward Former champ Yuri Foreman is now the ‘Vegan Boxing Rabbi,’ certifying kosher doughnuts
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Yuri Foreman’s professional peak as a boxer arguably came 11 years ago, when he faced off against Miguel Cotto in a marquee boxing match at Yankee Stadium. The match, dubbed the “Stadium Slugfest,” was a super welterweight title fight that had been promoted on huge posters…
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Fast Forward An anti-vaccine ad by an Orthodox group briefly took over a Crown Heights bus stop
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Compared to the rest of New York City, the residents of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood have both been hit harder by COVID-19 and more reluctant to vaccinate themselves against the virus. Those statistics have prompted a group called the Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association to put…
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Fast Forward The Hamptons home where Adrien Brody lived on ‘Succession’ was actually owned by a Jewish millionaire — and has that mezuzah
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — When Adrien Brody’s character burst onto the scene of HBO’s “Succession” last month, he became instantly iconic among the show’s Jewish fans. That’s thanks to his character’s visible Jewishness as well as the antisemitism he elicited. Brody’s character, Josh Aaronson, is a beanie-wearing billionaire investor who…
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Fast Forward 44 games into its winning streak, Yeshiva U’s basketball team is now No. 1 in NCAA’s Division III
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team is on a 44-game winning streak that dates back to 2019. Now, just in time for Hanukkah, the Y.U. Maccabees are finally getting some official recognition. A poll of the top teams in Division III men’s college basketball placed the…
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Fast Forward A pro-Israel group says Hunter College is ‘pervasively hostile’ to Jewish students. Jews on campus disagree.
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Is the social work school at Hunter College coddling antisemitism, or is it part of an institution that’s deeply committed to protecting Jews from prejudice? That question has come to the fore after a pro-Israel organization filed a federal complaint alleging a “pervasively hostile campus climate…
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