Daniel Hoffman
By Daniel Hoffman
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Fast Forward Jewish Businessman Pleads Guilty To Bribing Public Officials
A Jewish real-estate investor and prominent donor to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he exchanged money for favors from public officials, according to the New York Daily News. Jona Rechnitz’s admission came up in court papers quietly unsealed earlier this month during a federal investigation of de Blasio for possible illegal fundraising. De…
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Fast Forward Security Expert: JCC Bomb Hoaxes ‘A Blessing In Disguise’
Israeli authorities arrested an American-Israeli teen Thursday for calling fake bomb threats into American Jewish institutions, seeming to crack a case that had set Jewish organizations on edge for months. With the possible end to a wave of phone and email bomb threats, the Forward spoke to Don Aviv, COO of the private security company…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Mathematician Wins ‘Math Nobel’
Yves Meyer, a French Jewish mathematician, won the Abel Prize on Tuesday for his work on the “wavelet theory,” which has been applied in data compression, noise reduction, medical imaging and digital cinema. Meyer, 77, grew up in Tunis. He studied at the École normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (ENS) in Paris and got…
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Fast Forward Gone Girl: Ivanka Is Skiing in Aspen, Where She Once Went Missing
Ivanka Trump has been spending the last few days in Aspen, Colorado with her husband, children and brothers, all of them cheerfully riding down the powdery slopes in fancy snowsuits. ⛷ A post shared by Lara Trump (@laraleatrump) on Mar 21, 2017 at 9:37am PDT The president’s oldest daughter is no stranger to the ski…
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Music How a Troubadour Daniel Toledano Is Reconnecting With His Sephardic Heritage
With his long, curly hair, his amber medallion and a guitar strapped onto his shoulder, Dani Toledano looks like a troubadour just about to recite an elegy. In fact, he works for Ragonis Tours, an Israeli company that helps groups of visitors discover the Jewish past of Toledo, Spain. In a quiet square of the…
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