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Culture Of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and 11 Other Facts About Jewish Oklahoma
1) 4,650 Jews live in Oklahoma. 2) Isaac Lowenstein opened Oklahoma’s first vaudeville house in 1909. 3) Seymour Heyman, who ran The Hub clothing store owned the Oklahoma City Mets, a baseball team that played in the Southwestern League and Western Association in the first decade of the 20th century. 4) The inventor of the…
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Fast Forward Award-Winning Retired MIT Professor Dumped Over Sexual Harassment Claims
Walter Lewin, an award-winninng retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has been dumped by the university over claims he sexually harassed a student taking one of his online classes. Lewin, who retired in 2009, has been removed from lecturing online after an investigation into the female student’s claims, MIT said in a statement. MIT is…
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Fast Forward ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attacker Shot Dead by Police at Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn
A knife-wielding man shouting ‘I will kill the Jew’ was shot and killed by police after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli rabbinic student inside the world headquarters of Chabad in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Calvin Peters, 51, was shot in the stomach by police after a confrontation inside 770 Eastern Parkway, where he set upon a…
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The Schmooze Of Latkes and 7 Things About (Jewish) Idaho
1) 1,525 Jews live in Idaho. 2) Idaho’s first congregation, Beth Israel, was founded in 1895. 3) Idaho’s first Jewish residents worked in mining camps. 4) The Falk family started Falk’s Wholesale Company in the early part of the 20th Century. It was later sold to Sears. 5) Moses Alexander was elected mayor of Boise…
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The Schmooze Weirdest Concert of Bob Dylan’s Career Happened Yesterday
In what was undoubtedly the least-attended but most-memorable concert of his career, Bob Dylan performed a four-song afternoon set for one person yesterday at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. Yes, you read that correct. One person. And it was not a CEO or aristocrat. Not even, God forbid, a music journalist. As reported by Rolling…
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Fast Forward Transgender Activist Leslie Feinberg Dies at 65
Transgender activist Leslie Feinberg died November 15 at age 65, at her home in Syracuse, New York. According to the website Advocate.com, Feinberg died of “complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica.” Feinberg was known for her 1993 novel “Stone Butch Blues,” which won the Lambda Literary Award and is…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Barry Freundel Set for Court Date
Rabbi Barry Freundel is expected to appear in a Washington D.C. court today to face charges he used a hidden camera to peep on women in the mikveh of his Orthodox synagogue. The disgraced cleric faces six counts of voyeurism, a misdemeanor, and could face up to six years in prison. Prosecutors might outline any…
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Forward 50 2014 Lizzy Caplan
Before she was a “Master of Sex,” Lizzy Caplan was a Russian dancer in her elementary school’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” The actress, who was nominated for an Emmy Award this year for her performance as sex research pioneer Virginia Johnson in Showtime’s “Masters of Sex,” has come a long way since her…
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