Grace Gilson
By Grace Gilson
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Fast Forward The first and second Jewish mayors of Providence, Rhode Island, just had a shared bar mitzvah
In addition Mayor Brett Smiley, former mayor and congressman David Cicilline was also part of the adult bar mitzvah cohort.
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Fast Forward ‘Jew-FK Jr.’: Meet the Connecticut dad and children’s book author who won a JFK Jr. lookalike contest
“All the factors were wrong for the contest, but it turned out to be right,” said Andrew Ginsburg.
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Fast Forward Jan. 6 protester Jake Lang renounced his Judaism to court the far right. It isn’t working.
The latest row over Lang’s Jewish heritage comes as far-right influencers increasingly clash over the Iran war
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Fast Forward Azealia Banks is done with Israel, again: ‘On second thought, F—K ISRAEL’
The rapper’s latest comments on Israel come as the war in Iran has drawn growing public backlash.
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Fast Forward Maryland man who sent threatening letters to Jewish institutions sentenced to 3 years in prison
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, which was targeted by the letters, praised the sentencing
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Fast Forward Israel says it killed Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official and close ally of Khamenei
Israel also said it had killed Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of a militia unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
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Fast Forward Leqaa Kordia, the last Palestinian Columbia protester still in ICE detention, has been released
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani lobbied President Donald Trump.on Kordia’s behalf
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Fast Forward Is Netanyahu dead? Has Tel Aviv been flattened? AI videos are dominating the Iran war.
Even shrewd consumers of the news are getting confused
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Film & TV Remembering Siskel and Ebert’s great debate: Mel Brooks or Woody Allen?
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Fast Forward 200+ Bnei Menashe immigrate to Israel from India, the first to make the journey in years
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Yiddish װאָס קען מען זיך אָפּלערנען פֿון מאָלי קראַבעפּלס בוך װעגן „בונד“?What can we learn from Molly Crabapple’s book about the Bund?
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Sports Today’s American Jews finally have their era’s Sandy Koufax
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Fast Forward Netanyahu reveals prostate cancer treatment, says he hid diagnosis during Iran war