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Fast Forward Hubby Charged in Orthodox Upper West Side Woman’s Murder
The estranged husband of a successful Orthodox woman found dead in her Upper West Side bathtub in 2009 has reportedly been charged with her murder. Roderick Covlin, 42, pleaded not guilty to killing millionaire UBS financial advisor Shele Danishevsky, who whas found dead in her West 68th apartment by their nine-year-old daughter on New Year’s…
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Culture Forward Archives Are Now Digitized And Searchable
More than a century of Jewish life in America, reported in Yiddish, will soon be accessible through a searchable online database. The entire run of the Forverts newspaper — the most widely read Jewish newspaper in the world for much of the 20th century — will become part of the Historical Jewish Press Project, known…
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Fast Forward Is Sheldon Adelson Leaning Toward Marco Rubio?
Right-wing casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is leaning toward backing Marco Rubio for the Republican presidential nomination, sources close to Adelson told Politico. Rubio and Adelson recently met in the latter’s offices at the Venetian Las Vegas, one of Adelson’s casinos, where the aging magnate, known for his ultra-hawkish views on Israel, heaped praise on the…
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Fast Forward Ben Carson Doubles Down on Holocaust Gun Control Remark
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson reiterate his belief that the Holocaust might have been prevented if more Jews had owned guns. Brushing away criticism from historians, Jewish groups and anti-Semitism watchdogs, Carson insisted in an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” that strict gun control laid the groundwork for the Nazi genocide. “It’s not hyperbole…
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Fast Forward Jews Among MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
At least three Jews and one Jewish studies professor are among this year’s 24 winners of $625,000 MacArthur grants for so-called geniuses. Author Ben Lerner, environmental health advocate Gary Cohen, artist Nicole Eisenman and Princeton professor Marina Rustow, who teaches Jewish studies and is an expert on the Cairo genizah, are in the 2015 group…
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Fast Forward Arthur Kamin, Trailblazing New Jersey Journalist, Dies at 84
Arthur Z. Kamin, an immigrant baker’s son who rose to become editor of a New Jersey newspaper and chairman of the Rutgers University board of trustees, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, at a retirement community in Red Bank, N.J. He was 84 years old. The cause of death was Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, a…
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Fast Forward Larry Phillips, American Jewish World Service Founder, Dies at 88
Larry Phillips, a philanthropist and businessman who helped found American Jewish World Service, has died. He was 88. Phillips, whose family created the Phillips-Van Heusen fashion conglomerate, helped found AJWS in 1985 along with Larry Simon, now a prominent Brandeis University professor. “We owe our existence today to their passion, compassion and dedication to applying…
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