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By Forward Staff
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Fast Forward Evelyn Kozak, World’s Oldest Jew, Dies at 113
A woman who claimed the title of the world’s oldest Jewish person died in New York at age 113, the Associated Press reported. Evelyn Kozak, who was born on Aug. 14, 1899, died early Tuesday in a hospital after suffering a heart attack the day before, according to her granddaughter Brucha Weisberger. Gerontology Research Group…
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Fast Forward Myriad Genetics Stock Plunges After Supreme Court Loss
The stock of Myriad Genetics plunged after the Supreme Court rejected its effort to patent a human gene mutation that is linked to cancer and is common among Ashkenazi Jews. Shares of the biotech company dropped about 15% on Friday after spiraling up by about 10% on Thursday. The stock initially rocketed up by more…
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The Schmooze Bruce Ratner To Head Museum of Jewish Heritage
Bruce Ratner, executive chairman of Forest City Ratner Companies, was elected chairman-elect of the board of trustees of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, according to a June 12 press release. Ratner is the principle developer of The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, which includes the new Barclays Center…
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Life Is the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Model Broken?
Is the contemporary bar/bat mitzvah model broken? What role do these celebrations play in the everyday lives of young Jews, and are they working for or against the Jewish community? These questions, and more, were debated on the anniversary episode of The Jewish Channel’s The Salon, only this time the conversation took place in front…
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The Schmooze ‘Wolfenstein’ Returns
Remember “Wolfenstein”? Those of us who grew up playing computer games in the ‘90s certainly will. You know, the one where you ran around in a castle shooting Nazis. The first version, “Castle Wolfenstein,” was released in 1981, but for those of us a little bit younger, the main version was “Wolfenstein 3D,” from 1992….
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The Schmooze Watch Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ Trailer
Another year, another Woody Allen movie. Allen’s latest picture, “Blue Jasmine,” is scheduled for a July 26 release, but we can get a sense of it now thanks to a trailer that was released this weekend. With Cate Blanchett starring as a trophy wife whose husband (Alec Baldwin) turns out to be a Bernie Madoff-esque criminal,…
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The Schmooze Maurice Sendak Gets a Google Doodle
Children’s author Maurice Sendak, who died May 8, 2012, would have been 85 today. In his honor, Google has produced a complete animated sequence on its homepage, celebrating Sendak books such as “Where the Wild Things Are,” “In the Night Kitchen” and “Bumble-Ardy.” Head over to Google or watch the whole thing below.
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Opinion Artist and Writer Rachel Abrams Dies
Writer, editor and artist Rachel Abrams died June 7 of stomach cancer, at age 62. Abrams came from a noted neo-conservative family that included her mother, Midge Decter, a founder of the Project for a New American Century; her stepfather and longtime Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, and her husband, political scientist and diplomat Elliott Abrams….
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