David Ian Klein covers breaking news and international Jewish communities for the Forward. You can reach him at [email protected] and on Twitter @davidianklein.
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By David Ian Klein
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Fast Forward Israeli researchers claim to have discovered a cure for COVID-19
Researchers at two Israeli hospitals are reporting positive results in preliminary tests for a potential cure to COVID-19. At the Integrated Cancer Prevention Center at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, Professor Nadir Arber has been testing a new drug called EXO-CD24, which he claimed is an inexpensive treatment for the novel coronavirus, if it is taken…
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Fast Forward A committed kvetch: Old Jewish man buys ad in newspaper to complain about slow internet
We’ve all been frustrated with our internet service providers at one point or another, but one Jewish man took his kvetch game to the next level. Aaron Epstein, a 90-year-old from California bought a quarter page ad in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday to lambaste AT&T CEO John Stankey over his company’s slow internet…
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News Bosnian Jews remember Flory Jagoda, matriarch of Ladino song, as a homegrown rock star
Read this article in Yiddish Flory Jagoda, the Sarajevo-born Holocaust survivor and Sephardic musician who brought Ladino music to the wider world died last month at the age of 97. Jagoda was a lifelong lover of her native-langauge, Ladino. To many, she is the first name which comes to mind when thinking of Sephardic and…
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Fast Forward Dianne Feinstein loses school named in her honor
Dianne Feinstein Elementary School will be renamed, along with about a third of San Francisco’s other public schools, according to a report in Jweekly.com. The move comes after the San Francisco Board of Education voted overwhelmingly to change the names of 44 schools whose namesakes were associated with racism and white supremacy. Their issue with…
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Fast Forward On the eve of Daniel Pearl’s 19th yahrtzeit, his kidnappers are set to go free
Four men who were involved in the kidnapping and murder of Jewish American journalist Daniel Pearl are set to be released by Pakistani authorities. The news comes just days before the nineteenth anniversary of the event. Their release comes after a court in Pakistan’s Sindh province vacated the men’s murder convictions last year for their…
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Fast Forward A crocheted Bernie doll, complete with mittens, racked up $40,000 for charity
A crocheted version of Senator Bernie Sanders’ now-famous mittens-and-mask pose on Inauguration Day sold for more than $20,000 after only two days of bidding on ebay. The doll was initially posted by its creator, Tobey King, with a starting bid of 99 cents, but 167 bids later it skyrocketed to $20,300. Crochet Bernie, this is…
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Fast Forward 6 things you should know about the Glazer family, the Jewish owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
It’s official: the Kansas City Chiefs will be playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 55th Super Bowl in Florida. While there won’t be many Jews on the field, there will be at least one prominent Jewish family keeping a close eye from the stands – the Glazer family who have owned the Buccaneers since…
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Fast Forward Amar’e Stoudemire to get Shabbat rest from coaching Brooklyn Nets
Though Amar’e Stoudemire is now part of the coaching staff of the Brooklyn Nets, you won’t see him on the sidelines at the team’s Friday night or Saturday games. That’s because the NBA team has given the 38-year-old Stoudemire, a recent convert to Judaism, time off from Friday night to Saturday night so that he…
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