Caleb Guedes-Reed
By Caleb Guedes-Reed
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Fast Forward Wordle fandom inspires a new game: Jewdle
(JTA) – In yet another addition to the world of Wordle offshoots, an Australia-based Jewish community organization has created Jewdle — a distinctly Jewish version of the wildly popular online word game. While versions of Wordle exist in other languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish, Jewdle offers words from English, Yiddish, Hebrew and Aramaic and is different…
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Fast Forward Tiffany Haddish shares her Jewish rituals: Shabbat dinners and hanging out with her rabbi
(JTA) — Tiffany Haddish has been open about how she connected with her Jewish roots later in life, especially in interviews leading up to her 2019 standup special “Black Mitzvah.” But the comedian-turned-movie-star hadn’t yet said publicly how she incorporates Jewish practice into her daily life — if at all — until an interview she…
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Fast Forward Barnes & Noble removes ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from its site
(JTA) – Following a social media outcry, Barnes & Noble has removed ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion*” *from its website. Twitter users began tweeting about an online listing on Jan. 25*, *which had been selling the famously fabricated antisemitic text for $24.95 on the book retailer’s website. The retailer said in a statement…
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Fast Forward Flyers saying Jews have a ‘COVID agenda’ resurface in Florida and California
SARASOTA, Fla. (JTA) — Flyers blaming Jews for COVID-19 were found in multiple cities in Florida and in San Francisco this weekend, less than two months after similar ones were found in at least eight states nationwide. The Mayor of Miami Beach, Dan Gelber, who is Jewish, saw some of the flyers Sunday morning while…
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Fast Forward Pamela Adlon discovers her great-great-grandfather was a rabbi on ‘Finding Your Roots’
(JTA) – Pamela Adlon describes learning that her great-great-grandfather was a famous rabbi as “mind blowing” in an upcoming episode of the celebrity genealogy show “Finding Your Roots.” In an exclusive clip from Tuesday night’s episode that is debuting on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, host Henry Louis Gates Jr. asks Adlon to read the translation…
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Fast Forward Cecile Klein, 114, was Canada’s oldest person for 7 months
(JTA) — Cecile Klein, an energetic supercentenarian with ties to Montreal’s Jewish community and institutions, spent seven months as Canada’s oldest person, before passing away on Jan. 13. An obituary for Klein published in the Canadian Jewish News notes that in addition to living through two pandemics and two world wars, and working for her…
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Fast Forward Jared Leto has a thick Israeli accent in first teaser for TV series on WeWork founder Adam Neumann
(JTA) – Fans (and critics) of Jared Leto’s Italian accent in “House of Gucci” have new material to work with in his portrayal of Adam Neumann, the Israeli founder of WeWork, in the soon-to-be-released Apple TV+ series “WeCrashed.” An official teaser video released on Wednesday shows a first glimpse into Leto’s interpretation of the native…
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