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By Forward Staff
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The Schmooze Jewish Book Award Winners Announced
The Jewish Book Council has announced this year’s winners of its National Jewish Book Award. The award is given in 18 categories, including a lifetime achievement award, which this year went to Eric R. Kandel, who was also a 2000 Nobel Prize recipient in Physiology or Medicine. Other winners include Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy…
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Fast Forward Slain Jewish Couple Recalled at Toronto Funeral
A beloved Jewish couple murdered in their South Florida home was remembered at a Toronto funeral filled with grief and unanswered questions. Mourners packed a service for retirees David “Donny” Pichosky, 71, and Rochelle Wise, 66, who were found dead in their townhouse in Hallandale, near Ft. Lauderdale, late last week. “We come here together…
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Fast Forward Florida Prisoners Win Right To Eat Kosher
The Florida Department of Corrections has reportedly agreed to serve kosher food to Jewish inmates, ending a five year legal battle that involved the federal justice department. The Chabad-Lubavitch Aleph Institute, which advocates for Jewish inmates, praised Florida Gov. Rick Scott for ordering the change, Yeshiva World News reported. “The Aleph Institute and the Jewish…
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Fast Forward MIT Chief Orders Review After Aaron Swartz Suicide
The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reportedly announced Sunday that he has ordered a review of the university’s actions in a hacking case against internet activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself over the weekend. Swartz, 26, who was found hanged in his Brooklyn apartment, was awaiting a federal trial on 13 felony counts….
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Fast Forward Nebraska Jewish Paper Not Taking Sides on Hagel
Chuck Hagel’s home state Jewish newspaper is calling for a “wait and see” attitude on the controversial Pentagon pick, saying it hasn’t been convinced by either supporters or opponents. Annette van de Kamp-Wright, editor of The Jewish Press of Omaha, wrote that Jews should “give the man a chance,” even as she pointed out that…
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Fast Forward Jack Lew Eyed for Treasury Secretary
Jack Lew is reportedly the strong favorite to be named the next treasury secretary and President Obama may announce the pick before the end of the week. Lew, an Orthodox Jew who now serves as White House chief of staff, would replace Timothy Geithner at Treasury, Bloomberg News reported. Lew, who lives in the Bronx…
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Fast Forward Chuck Hagel: ‘Total Support for Israel’
Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel says he looks forward to facing his critics, especially from the pro-Israel community, who he said have “completely distorted” his record. The former Nebraska senator told the Lincoln Journal Star in his home state that his record shows an “unequivocal, total support for Israel.” A Republican with a reputation as a…
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Fast Forward Phony ‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ Rabbi Goes to Jail
A Baltimore rabbi dubbed the ‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ for his supposed efforts hunting down torahs lost in the Holocaust, has begun a four-year federal prison sentence for fraud. Menachem Youlus began serving a 51-month prison sentence last month at the federal correctional institution (FCI) in Otisville, N.Y., the Baltimore Jewish Times reported. Convicted of two…
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