Gabe Friedman
By Gabe Friedman
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Fast Forward In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder asked Pope Francis to continue to call on Hamas to release Israeli hostages
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Fast Forward ‘You don’t know yet, do you?’ How Jews offline for a 2-day holiday found out about the attack on Israel
Orthodox Jews often found themselves relying on non-Jews to feed them details about the catastrophe
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Fast Forward Amid Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenian synagogue defaced as local anger over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan grows
“The Jews are the enemies of the Armenian nation,” read a post that circulated on pro-Armenian social media pages after the vandalism, according to an association of European rabbis
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Fast Forward The Leonard Bernstein biopic ‘Maestro’ has been plagued by ‘Jewface’ controversy. Many Jewish fans don’t care.
At the film’s New York premiere, fans cared more about star and director Bradley Cooper’s plot lines than his prosthetic nose
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Fast Forward Tens of thousands of Jews flock to Uman for Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage despite another year of wartime warnings
'God has not always protected us, not on European soil and not on Ukrainian soil,' said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Fast Forward Makeup artist apologizes over prosthetic nose worn by Bradley Cooper in ‘Maestro’ film
Kazu Hiro, who has won two Oscars for transforming actors into their characters, said he was not expecting the swift and intense backlash
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Fast Forward Adam Sandler’s ‘You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah’ is the highest-rated movie of his career
It’s a hit with streaming audiences, too
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Fast Forward The UK’s defense secretary is Jewish, a first since the 1990s
Grant Schapps has said that he was once president of a branch of the BBYO Jewish youth movement. He is related to Mick Jones, the Jewish guitarist formerly in The Clash
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