Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward How do Jewish Columbia students feel about Minouche Shafik’s resignation? It’s complicated.
Gabriel Freedman-Naditch said he’s hoping for rules to be enforced next year — and for an end to the drama
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Fast Forward A ‘Bachelorette’ contestant this season is the great-great-grandson of the last chief rabbi of Kovno
Avraham Dov-Ber Kahana Shapiro, the last chief rabbi of Kovno, died in its ghetto. His descendant is looking for love
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Politics Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostage Square’ is coming to Chicago for the DNC — with or without a permit
The installation will feature 10-foot-tall milk cartons with the faces of the eight Americans still captive in Gaza
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Politics Tim Walz says he has no personal relationship with imam who shared pro-Hitler video
“The politics of ‘gotcha’ are just unfortunate,” said a Minnesota rabbi and Democratic organizer. “People meet with lots of people, and I think that we need to really look at results and actions"
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Politics Kamala Harris’ Hebrew merch is taking shape — in the form of a punctuation mark
A popular design is a riff on a pronunciation guide for Harris’ first name — with Hebrew letters at its center
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Fast Forward Murder case dismissed against man charged with killing Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll
The dismissal comes as Woll’s synagogue prepares to rename its new building after her
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Fast Forward In first Tisha B’Av after Oct. 7, Jewish writers, musicians, and lay leaders compose new liturgy and traditions to mourn a fresh tragedy
New liturgy and rituals connect the traditional meaning of Tisha B'Av — which begins Monday night at sundown — and current anguish
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Fast Forward A film about the destruction of the Second Temple premiered in 2021. Oct. 7 gives it new resonance.
‘Legend of Destruction’ is screening at multiple synagogues in the New York area for Tisha B’Av
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