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The Schmooze Brooklyn School Named After Maurice Sendak
An elementary school in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is renaming itself after late children’s author Maurice Sendak. PS 118 announced February 8 that it will now be called the Maurice Sendak Community School, after the author of “Where the Wild Things Are,” “In the Night Kitchen” and “Chicken Soup With Rice,” among other classics. “We…
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Fast Forward Chandra Levy Murder Mystery Deepens as Judge Refuses To Open Hearing
The mystery of the Chandra Levy murder has deepened as a judge refused to allow the press into hearings about a problem with a witness that could potentially overturn the conviction in the sensational case. Over the howls of national media organziations, Washington D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher, maintained strict secrecy restrictions on the…
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Fast Forward Nechemya Weberman’s 103-Year Sentence Cut In Half
The 103-year prison sentence a judge slapped on convicted child molester Nechemya Weberman has reportedly been slashed by more than half by state prison officials. State Supreme Court Justice John G. Ingram hit Weberman, an unlicensed ‘therapist’ in the Satmar Hasidic community, with the century-plus term behind bars for repeatedly abusing a young girl placed…
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Fast Forward Anti-Arab Fans Torch Jerusalem Soccer Offices
The offices of the Israeli soccer team Beitar Jerusalem was set on fire on Friday as an act of protest against the team’s two new Muslim players from Chechnya. While one player is injured, the other is slated to play his first game with the team on Sunday against the Arab-Israeli town Sakhnin. The incident…
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The Schmooze Gaza Goes Gangnam Style
Back in November, Israel Defense Forces reservists waiting on the Gaza border for a possible ground invasion whiled away their time producing an IDF parody of “Gangnam Style,” the infamous viral video by South Korean comedian and pop star Psy. Well, two can play that game. Now, a group of young men in Gaza have…
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The Schmooze Yeshiva Museum Goes Back to School
Yeshiva University Museum has received a grant of $135,900 to expand its Re-Imagining Jewish Education Through Art program. The grant comes from The Covenant Foundation, and is part of the $1.2 million in grants approved by the foundation in January. The foundation plans to distribute a total of $1.7 million this year. According to a…
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Fast Forward Chandra Levy ‘Killer’ To Appear Amid Questions on Jewish Intern Slaying
The convicted killer of Chandra Levy is set to appear at a federal court hearing amid questions about the sensational 2001 killing of the Jewish congressional intern. Ingmar Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant, was convicted of killing Levy in 2010. He is serving a 60-year prison sentence. He is expected to travel from a federal prison…
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Opinion Mon Dieu, C’est Le Forverts!
The Forward’s new Yiddish site has certainly taken off with a bang. In the days since the launch of the yiddish.forward.com site was announced, several major media outlets have run stories on it, and what it means for the future of the Yiddish language. We hoped the new site might get a lot of attention…
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