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5 Most Overpaid (and Underpaid) Jewish Charity Chiefs

Matt Brooks topped the Forward’s list of most-overpaid non-profit leaders/Courtesy of Republican Jewish Coalition The Forward’s annual salary survey allows readers to see how much of the money they donate to Jewish charities winds up in the pockets of those group’s top executives. So whose pockets got the fattest? Matthew Brooks, head of the Republican…

By Forward Staff Dec 15, 2014 | 2 min read
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…

By Forward Staff Dec 13, 2014 | < 1 min read
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…

By Forward Staff Dec 9, 2014 | < 1 min read
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…

By Forward Staff Dec 9, 2014 | 2 min read
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…

By Forward Staff Dec 2, 2014 | < 1 min read
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…

By Forward Staff Nov 24, 2014 | < 1 min read
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…

By Forward Staff Nov 17, 2014 | < 1 min read
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…

By Forward Staff Nov 12, 2014 | < 1 min read

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5 Most Overpaid (and Underpaid) Jewish Charity Chiefs

Of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and 11 Other Facts About Jewish Oklahoma

Award-Winning Retired MIT Professor Dumped Over Sexual Harassment Claims

‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attacker Shot Dead by Police at Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn

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