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Fast Forward Lea Michele ‘Shaking’ at Death of ‘Glee’ Boyfriend Cory Monteith
Actress Lea Michele, the Jewish star of ‘Glee,’ was reportedly left “devastated” by the news that her boyfriend, Canadian actor Cory Monteith, died over the weekend. “She is devastated,” a friend told the Daily News. “She was shaking when she heard the news.” The 31-year-old heart throb of Fox’s musical-comedy television series “Glee”, was found…
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Opinion Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and Din Rodef
It’s rare that Saturday nights and Sunday mornings in America are so focused on a court decision. But since last night’s acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of 17-year-old unarmed Trayvon Martin, it seems that all of America is talking about the verdict reached by six anonymous female jury members in Florida. Individuals and…
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Fast Forward Zomick’s Challah Bakery Rejects Bug Claim
Zomick’s Bakery has denied reports of unsanitary conditions at its plants where it bakes its famed challah. The Long Island bakery put out a statement denying the claims of insect infestation and other woes, calling them ‘inaccurate and false.’ “While we may have had a few isolated incidents years ago, the bakery adheres to the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Triple Murder Victim’s Mother: How Did Police Miss Tamerlan Tsarnaev?
The mother of a Jewish man killed in a 2011 triple murder in which slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has broken her silence — accusing police of conducting a lethargic probe into the gruesome killings. Bellie Hacker, whose son, Erik Weissman was brutally slashed to death along with a second Jewish man and…
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Fast Forward Julius Berman, Embattled Chair of Claims Conference Board, Reelected
Julius Berman, the embattled board chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, was reelected to another term by trustees at an annual board meeting today. Berman’s stewardship of the organization had come into question following a Forward report that he failed to take appropriate action on a 2001 letter warning of fraud…
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The Schmooze Y.U. Leader Was in Trouble of a Different Kind
On July 1, Yeshiva University chancellor Norman Lamm announced his retirement under a cloud of allegations regarding sexual abuse at Yeshiva University High School during the 1970s and ‘80s. Lamm may be the first Y.U. chancellor to come under that kind of scrutiny, but he is not the first Y.U. leader to find himself in…
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Fast Forward Jews Make Pilgrimage To Honor Portugal’s ‘Righteous’
Dozens of Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants have journeyed to Portugal to honor Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a relatively obscure diplomat who is credited with rescuing 30,000 Jews from the Nazis. Mendes was the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, France, when the Nazis invaded and personally provided precious escape visas to Jews, allowing them to…
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Books HarperCollins Nixes ‘Wild Things’ Sequel
Those hoping there would be a sequel to Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” are in for a disappointment. A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a poem called “Back to the Wild” has been suspended following a copyright complaint from HarperCollins, which published the original “Wild Things.” The U.K.-based crowdfunding…
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