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Fast Forward Accused Rabbi’s Supporters Clash With Protesters
Two ultra-Orthodox Jews were reportedly arrested after a confrontation between supporters of a Brooklyn rabbi accused of sex abuse and protesters. The Daily News reported that scores of demonstrators faced off against a much larger crowd of supporters of Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, who is accused of abusing a teenage girl, in Williamsburg. Police were called…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Sacha Baron Cohen is being criticized for presenting negative stereotypes of Arabs in “The Dictator.” Can’t say this one was hard to see coming. Aaron Sorkin has signed on to write the script for a Steve Jobs biopic. Aharon Appelfeld’s “Blooms of Darkness” has won the British Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Read our review of…
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Fast Forward Internal Probe Clears Brooklyn College Official
An internal investigation on Tuesday cleared Brooklyn College’s provost of allegations that he discriminated against four observant Jewish professors. The report concluded that Provost William Tramontano did not act improperly in denying promotions to the three Orthodox women and one man. “Each of the cases involved a decision based on a good faith application of…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Jordan has freed the publisher of an online newspaper charged with propagating “anti-regime sentiment.” Actor Elliott Gould has become the new face of Aish HaTorah. Watch Mandy Patinkin speaking at a Peace Now conference in Jerusalem. Read an excerpt from Isaac Bashevis Singer and Maurice Sendak’s “Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories.” Seth Lipsky defends…
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News Benayoun Scores Key Goal as Arsenal Win
Israel soccer captain Yossi Benayoun scored a crucial goal to power Arsenal into a third-place finish in the English Premier League and an automatic spot in the all-important Champions League for next season. The crafty midfielder tapped in the first goal after a blunder by West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Marton Fulop in the fourth minute…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Roman Polanski is set to direct “D,” a thriller about the Dreyfus Affair. Comic book legend Stan Lee is writing an Elvis comic. Listen to a recording from the legendary Yiddish poet, partisan and Shoah song collector Shmerke Kaczerginski. Take a look at the first book illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Walter Zev Feldman takes on…
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The Schmooze ‘Wild Things’ Author Maurice Sendak Dies at 83
Maurice Sendak, author of beloved children’s books such as “Where the Wild Things Are” and “In the Night Kitchen,” died May 8 at age 83 of complications from a stroke. Sendak, who was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from Poland, broke the conventions of children’s literature with his dark and psychologically acute early books….
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Fast Forward Jewish Hostage Pleads With Obama for Help
Kidnapped American Warren Weinstein pleaded with President Barack Obama to meet his Al Qaeda captors’ demands in a new video, saying ‘my life is in your hands,’ CNN reported. The Jewish development consultant, who was snatched from outside his home in Lahore, Pakistan, last August, suggested the radical group would execute him unless the U.S….
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