Gabe Friedman
By Gabe Friedman
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Fast Forward Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews flood tiny Hungarian town for ‘miracle rabbi’ pilgrimage
'The sudden influx in the last decade of so many foreign Jews has been a culture shock for some locals,' said the mayor of the town called Kerestir in Yiddish.
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Fast Forward Frankfurt can’t cancel Roger Waters concert over his antisemitism record, court rules
The Frankfurt court ruled that Rogers 'did not glorify or relativise the crimes of the Nazis or identify with Nazi racist ideology' in past concerts.
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Fast Forward Sofia Richie, Lionel Richie’s daughter, marries Jewish music executive after converting to Judaism
A British rabbi performed the wedding in the south of France
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Fast Forward Netflix’s ‘Rough Diamonds’ brings viewers into the drama of Antwerp’s Orthodox diamond district
The show’s creators previously worked together on 'Fauda'
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Fast Forward UK Labour party suspends senior lawmaker Diane Abbott over comment about Jews and racism
She wrote that Jews 'are not all their lives subject to racism'
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Fast Forward Barcelona synagogue defaced with anti-Israel graffiti
The head of the Conference of European Rabbis connected the graffiti to Barcelona’s decision to give up its twin city designation with Tel Aviv — an act he argued has 'put the city’s Jewish community in real danger.'
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Fast Forward Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood made an album with Israeli rocker Dudu Tassa
“We didn’t want to make out that we’re making any political point, but I do understand that as soon as you do anything in that part of the world it becomes political,” Greenwood said in a statement
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Fast Forward ‘How Saba Kept Singing,’ Holocaust doc produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, to air on PBS for Yom Hashoah
David Wisnia survived Auschwitz thanks to his operatic singing voice — and a relationship with a lover with whom whom he reunited nearly 75 years later
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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