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Fast Forward Philadelphia Jewish Paper Lays Off Entire News Staff
The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent has laid off its entire newsroom staff after handing editorial operations over to a media group that publishes Jewish papers in Baltimore and Washington D.C. Fifteen journalists and production staffers were let go at the nation’s second-oldest continuously published paper, according to a statement on its web site The paper’s editorial…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz Sues Boston Arena for $6K Over Sloppy Floor
Legal eagle Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing a Boston arena for $6,000 after he slipped and fell on a wet bathroom floor during a 2012 Boston Celtics playoff game. The high-powered attorney says management of the TD Garden failed to maintain the supply of paper towels in the men’s room, leading to dangerous spills on…
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Fast Forward Rahm Emanuel Blasts White Cop in Antlers Photo Scandal
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel strongly defended the firing of a white police officer who was photographed with a colleague holding rifles and posing over a black man wearing antlers like an animal killed on a hunt, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. “Good riddance,” Emanuel said. “Let me be clear: That photo does not represent the values…
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Food Josh Ozersky, Award-Winning Food Writer, Died After Seizure
Josh Ozersky, an award-winning Jewish food writer, drowned in a Chicago hotel room shower after suffering a seizure, authorities reportedly said Wednesday. The James Beard Award winner drowned May 4 in his room at the Conrad Hotel, the Cook County medical examiner’s office told the Chicago Sun-Times. An autopsy revealed the cause of death and…
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Culture Of Starbucks, Courtney Love and 8 Other Things About (Jewish) Washington
1) 46,000 Jews live in Washington. 2) Edward Salomon became Washington’s only Jewish governor in 1870. 3) Elected in 1875, Bailey Gatzert became the first (and so far only) Jewish mayor of Seattle. 4) Washington’s first synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, was founded in Spokane in 1892. 5) Seattle’s Orthodox population is centered around the neighborhood of…
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Fast Forward Florida Student Falls to Death at Scorching Masada
A 20-year-old American college student died after falling during a hike on Masada in southern Israel. The woman, part of a group from Florida State University, fell some 26 feet off the historic mountain’s Snake Path on Tuesday afternoon while traveling with an unnamed organized group, according to reports. It took more than an hour…
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Culture Of Eric Cantor, Dirty Dancing and 8 Other Things About (Jewish) Virginia
1) 95,520 Jews live in Virginia. 2) Congregation Beth Israel, built in 1882 in Charlottesville, is the oldest synagogue in the state. 3) Late Minnesota senator Paul Wellstone, who died in an airplane crash in 2002, was raised Jewish in Arlington. The Wellstone family name was originally Wexelstein. 4) Much of Steven Spielberg’s film “Lincoln”…
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Fast Forward Jewish Naval Midshipman Among Dead in Amtrak Crash
Justin Zemser, a 20-year-old Jewish midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, was one of at least seven passengers killed in a deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia. “He was the most wonderful kid,” Zemser’s mother, Susan Zemser, told reporters, according to the Daily News. Zemser, who grew up in Rockaway Beach, New York, was…
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