Gabe Friedman
By Gabe Friedman
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Fast Forward Yemen’s Jewish population, once over 50,000, drops to below 10
(JTA) — Amid the ongoing civil war in Yemen, 13 Jews have immigrated to Egypt, leaving the country’s once vibrant community of at least 50,000 with a population of fewer than 10. Some reports claimed that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who control part of Yemen, forced the Jews to leave. The Times of Israel reported…
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News Taiwan’s small Jewish community is gearing up for a big Passover party — no masks required
(JTA) — British Jewish artist Leon Fenster loved his adopted city so much that he designed a Passover Haggadah with it as the theme. So when he left the Chinese capital for Taiwan in early 2020 at the outset of the pandemic, he made a vow: Next year in Beijing, again. A year later, Fenster…
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Fast Forward ‘A total JAP’: NJ newspaper apologizes for using anti-Semitic epithet in photo caption
(JTA) — A New Jersey newspaper left a photo caption with the term “JAP,” a pejorative for “Jewish American princess,” on its website for over 14 hours. The caption in the Gannett-owned Asbury Park Press, which went with a photo of a female Orthodox nurse, read: “A f***ing hot nurse, a total JAP, loads a…
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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg is writing and directing a movie based on himself
(JTA) — Steven Spielberg’s newest project is on a subject that he’s quite familiar with: He will direct and co-write a movie loosely based on his childhood in Arizona, Deadline reported Tuesday. Tony Kushner, the Jewish playwright who wrote “Angels in America” and has collaborated with Spielberg on “Munich” and “Lincoln,” is working with the famed…
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Fast Forward Amazon alters app logo that drew comparisons to Hitler’s mustache
(JTA) — Amazon has drawn some Fuhrer fury — over a logo featuring a cardboard box and a piece of tape. The ecommerce giant released a new logo for its smartphone app on Monday after some users compared the former logo to Hitler’s mustache. The former logo featured a piece of tape with ragged edges…
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Fast Forward Story of friendship between Israeli and Iranian judo champions being made into TV show
(JTA) — The stories of Israeli champion judoka Sagi Muki and his friend Saeid Mollaei, who fled his native Iran after refusing an order not to fight Muki in international competition, are being turned into a TV series. The project is being jointly produced by MGM/UA Television and Israel’s Tadmor Entertainment, with help from the…
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Fast Forward ‘Shtisel’ Season 3 Netflix release date announced
(JTA) — Season 3 of the hit haredi Orthodox drama series “Shtisel” will debut on Netflix on March 25, Israel’s Yes Studios announced Tuesday. The first two seasons of the show, which follows members of an Orthodox family in Israel, became popular with audiences around the globe, Jewish and non-Jewish, after being distributed by Netflix….
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Fast Forward Michigan university fires professor for antisemitic, racist social media posts
(JTA) — Ferris State University, a public research school in Big Rapids, Michigan, fired a professor last week for using antisemitic, racist, homophobic and other inflammatory language on social media. Thomas Brennan, a physical sciences professor, had tweeted about a “Jewish mafia” and called the COVID-19 pandemic a “Jewish revolution,” according to an article last…
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