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News Jewish Mother Ellen Brody Identified as SUV Driver in Commuter Train Tragedy
The driver of an SUV at the center of a deadly crash with a New York commuter train has been identified as Ellen Schaeffer Brody, a Jewish mother of three from suburban Scarsdale. Brody, 49, was the driver whose car became stuck at a railway crossing when a train slammed into the vehicle, killing her…
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Culture Of Bill Clinton, Bagels and 9 Other Things About (Jewish) Arkansas
1) 1,725 Jews live in Arkansas. 2) In the early 1820’s, Abraham Block, a store owner, became the first Jew to settle in Arkansas. 3) Little Rock’s B’nai Israel, founded in 1866, is the state’s oldest Jewish congregation. 4) In the early 1880’s, a group of Jewish pioneers from New York founded the Am Olam…
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Culture Of Gilda Radner, Ivan Boesky, Boisterous Brisket and 9 Other Facts About Jewish Michigan
1) 82,270 Jews live in Michigan. 2) Michigan’s first Jewish settler was Ezekiel Solomon. A fur trader, he operated a general store during the Revolutionary War. 3) Montreal-born fur trader Chapman Abraham was Detroit’s first Jewish settler, arriving there in 1762. 4) Founded in 1885 in Traverse City, Congregation Beth El is Michigan’s oldest synagogue….
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The Schmooze Awards Announced for Best Jewish Books for Kids and Teens
Wikimedia Commons The Jewish book award season is in full swing. The winners of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards were announced last week. Today, the Association of Jewish Libraries released the list of laureates of the Sydney Taylor Book Award that honors new books for children and teens about the Jewish experience. In the…
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Books Book Critics Nods to Roz Chast, Gary Shteyngart
Photo: Martyna Starosta Forward 50 members Roz Chast and Gary Shteyngart are among the 30 nominees for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Awards. The award, given to books in the areas of autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry, is given by the book critics and book review editors of the National Book Critics…
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Culture Of Barbie, Western Shirts, Simon Guggenheim and 8 Other Facts About Jewish Colorado
1) Colorado is home to approximately 92,000 Jews representing 1.8% of the population. 2) Denver clothing CEO Jack Weil was credited with the idea of putting snaps on Western-style shirts. 3) Born in Philadaelphia, Simon Guggenheim served for one term as a Colorado U.S. Senator from 1907-1913. 4) Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spent…
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The Schmooze It Was the Year of the Centenary
Photo copyright Getty Images It’s a common trope that the 20th-century — and with it, the modern era — didn’t really start until the outbreak of the First World War (represented in the images above and below). This year we marked the centenary of that event, ushering in not only the second century of the…
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Fast Forward Journalist Chris Hedges Barred by University of Pennsylvania Over Israel Dig
Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges says he was barred from speaking at a University of Pennsylvania conference on the prospects for peace in the Middle East after he compared Israel’s founding fathers to ISIS radicals. Hedges, a former Middle East bureau chief for the Times, said he had been invited to speak at…
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