Gabe Friedman
By Gabe Friedman
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Opinion Watch How New York Reacts to This Jewish-Muslim Couple Experiment
(JTA) — What happens when a conspicuously Jewish-Muslim couple walks hand-in-hand through the streets of New York City? Three YouTube personalities set out to answer that question. Karim Metwaly teamed up with Alaaldeen Shehadeh and Moe Zahrieh for a video that has garnered nearly 1.3 million views since being posted last week. Last month, Shehadeh and…
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The Schmooze If You Eat Bagels, You’re ‘Jewish Enough’ for Toronto Film Festival
(JTA) — If you enjoy bagels or sport a big, fuzzy beard, you’re Jewish enough to enjoy the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. That at least is the message of the upcoming festival’s new ad campaign. The series of 15-second ads and posters are a conscious attempt to broaden the festival’s appeal, according to the man…
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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ Goes on Birthright, Turns Jewish Anxieties Into Comic Gold
(JTA)—The “Broad City” ladies make some sort of Jewish reference or joke in almost every episode of their Comedy Central show. But Wednesday night the real-life Jews took on their Jewiest topic yet: the free Birthright trip to Israel. After spending most of the episode struggling to catch their flight, Abbi Abrams (Abbi Jacobson) and…
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Fast Forward Jewish Camps, Schools Pressed to Adopt Child Sexual Abuse Policies
(JTA) — Over two dozen philanthropists and organizations have pledged to fund only Jewish day camps and schools taking “adequate steps to prevent, report, and investigate sexual abuse of minors.” The was introduced on Sunday, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported Wednesday. Some of its most prominent signees include Lynn Schusterman, co-founder and co-chairwoman of…
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Fast Forward On Reddit, Holocaust Survivor Describes Hellish Life in 7 Nazi Camps
(JTA) — A 92-year-old man who survived seven different German concentration camps participated in a question and answer session, detailing his harrowing near-death to liberation story. Henry Flescher, who now lives in Aventura, Florida and had not heard of the social news-sharing site Reddit before the session earlier this week, participated in the forum with the…
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Fast Forward A League of Their Own: A Jewish Baseball Museum, at Last
(JTA) — When Jews visit the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, they can learn about the two most celebrated members of the tribe who have been inducted into the hallowed museum: Hank “The Hebrew Hammer” Greenberg and Sandy Koufax. Now they’ll have the chance to find out about the dozens of other…
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The Schmooze The 6-Year-Old Rabbi’s Daughter and Her One-Girl Protest Against The New Yorker
Conservative Rabbi Jill Jacobs is known for her social activism, and her young daughter is already fighting injustice too. Six-year-old Lior’s issue: The New Yorker cartoon contest’s policy against accepting submissions from minors. “It isn’t fair. Seriously,” she wrote in a letter to The New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff. Clearly cowed by the young…
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News Why Civil Rights ‘Freedom Kippah’ Is a Thing Again
(JTA) — Fifty-one years ago this week, hundreds of people marched from Selma toward Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights for African-Americans. The march, one of the most famous civil rights demonstrations in American history, helped spur the passage of the Voting Rights Act. What is less well known is that kippahs were a symbol…
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