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Fast Forward Gov. Gavin Newsom announces new council, big spending on Holocaust education during L.A. visit
Governor Gavin Newsom used a visit to Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance to announce millions in funding to Holocaust museums and education initiatives across the state, and to launch the Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education, and highlight key budget investments that ensure mass genocides, like the Holocaust, are not forgotten. “We find ourselves…
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Slideshows See a slideshow of 770 Eastern Parkway — and its replicas throughout the world
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Culture September 30: Film screening & discussion of “The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans”
This event is in partnership with the Museum at Eldridge Street. It will take place on Thursday, September 30 at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT. Register here. Join the filmmakers and Editor-in-Chief of the Forward in a conversation about this historic documentary. From its founding in New York in 1897, the Forward served…
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Culture October 6: The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music 1.1. Zach Mayer CD Release
This event is in partnership with the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music. It will take place on Wednesday, October 6 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT. Register here. We’re excited to partner with the Boston Synagogue on the launch of the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music, a free monthly concert series…
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Fast Forward Norm Macdonald’s gift to Jewish humor
Norm Macdonald, the former Saturday Night Live news anchor and stand-up comic, wasn’t Jewish. But the Canadian-born comedian, who died Tuesday from cancer at the age of 61, left behind two of the greatest Jewish humor moments in recent memory. Macdonald’s stand up made him famous, but his talk show appearances with Howard Stern, Conan…
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News Impatience. Hopelessness. Multi-tasking. Readers share the personal sins they’re repenting for this Yom Kippur.
“For the sin of not walking through the doors God opens for me.” That was what a rabbi I dated many years ago, when I was in my 20s and living in Los Angeles, said as we performed the tashlich ritual. Tashlich literally means “casting off,” and the ritual involves tossing pieces of bread into…
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Culture November 4-11: Other Israel Film Festival
The Other Israel Film Festival will run November 4-11. Learn more and get tickets here. We’re excited to co-sponsor the 2021 Other Israel Film Festival! Tickets are now on sale and this year’s festival will feature both in-person and virtual films and events. The Other Israel Film Festival, founded in 2007, presents cinema and television…
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Culture November 7: What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace screening and Q&A
This film screening and Q&A will take place on Sunday, November 7 at 2 p.m. ET. Get tickets here. Can a leader succeed in influencing the world? Ehud Barak is a controversial former prime minister, decorated and criticized commander on the battlefield, and one of the leading figures of the Zionist movement. He is also…
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