Haley Cohen
By Haley Cohen
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Life Why Are American Synagogues Of Different Denominations Merging?
For Kathy Jacobs, the decision to join Agudas Achim Congregation wasn’t really much of a decision. The Coralville, Iowa synagogue was the only one within miles of Iowa City when Jacobs and her late husband moved to the area in 1998. This also meant that it wasn’t necessarily her decision to join a synagogue that…
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Fast Forward Family Of Sandy Hook Victim Driven Out Of 7 Different Homes
Conspiracy theorists have given the family of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting no choice but to move homes — seven times. They now live hundreds of miles from where their son is buried, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Noah Pozner was the youngest student shot at Sandy Hook Elementary School…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Holocaust Survivor Known As ‘Death Metal Grandma’ Rocks The Stage
Many decades after fleeing the Holocaust, a 96-year-old grandmother found her passion in fronting a death metal band, The New York Times reported. Inge Ginsberg, originally from Austria, and her husband Otto Kollman ended up in Hollywood after spending some time in a Swiss refugee camp. Their new life included composing for some of the…
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Fast Forward Secret Israeli Memo Cast Doubt That Trump’s Korea Summit Accomplished Anything
A classified report from Israel’s foreign ministry questioned whether the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was anything more than a photo opportunity, Axios reported Thursday. The analysis was reportedly circulated on Wednesday by the research department of the Israeli foreign ministry to all Israeli embassies around the world and…
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Fast Forward Before Albert Einstein Spoke Out For Civil Rights, He Had Racist Views
In addition to his scientific research, Albert Einstein also famously advocated for civil rights — but a series of travel diaries recently published in English for the first time revealed that the physicist held racist and xenophobic views, CNN reported. The writings record Einstein’s experiences in the Middle East and Asia between October 1922 and…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Group Spreads Hate Through Washington State—With Candy
Bags carrying candy and an anti-immigration message were found in residential neighborhoods in the Seattle suburbs last week, the Seattle Times reported. The bags, which included a message to “Keep America American,” were distributed around Bellevue and Clyde Hill and promote the website of Patriot Front, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a…
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Fast Forward No One In China Has Ever Heard The ‘Chinese Proverb’ Ivanka Tweeted
Ivanka Trump left the Chinese baffled on Monday when she tweeted what she labeled a “Chinese proverb”— one that the Chinese weren’t too familiar with, The Washington Post reported. The tweet in question was posted just ahead of President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. “Those who say it can…
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Fast Forward Trump/Stormy Daniels Drama Is ‘Farkakte’ Says Rudy Guiliani
Rudy Guiliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, shared on Wednesday while in Israel that he does not think first lady Melania Trump believes that her husband had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, CNN reported. “She believes her husband. And she knows it’s untrue, ” Giuliani reportedly said at the “Globes” Capital Market conference in…
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