Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward Second season of ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ will hit Netflix July 14
The historical drama focuses on three generations of a Sephardic Ladino-speaking family
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Fast Forward The Reform movement is ending its standalone semester-in-Israel program amid declining enrollment
The move onto the Muss campus is the latest in the Reform movement’s reduction in physical space to cut costs and respond to shrinking enrollment numbers
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Fast Forward National Portrait Gallery to display portrait of Sally Priesand, first ordained woman rabbi in American history
The museum will also display a portrait of pioneering 19th-century Reform Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise
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Fast Forward Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren gets US release date
It will focus on Meir’s decision-making during the Yom Kippur War, her complicated relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and her legacy around the world
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Fast Forward A German museum curator is personally returning art looted by the Nazis to the descendants of Holocaust victims
Matthias Weniger expects to finish returning 111 silver objects from the Bavarian National Museum in Munich to Jewish families by the end of the year
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Fast Forward US House passes resolution calling on Russia to free Evan Gershkovich
The resolution, passed Tuesday, was introduced by Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Fast Forward Ed Sheeran is popular — but not as popular as the Talmud, according to attendance figures at MetLife Stadium
For those who participate in Daf Yomi, it takes roughly seven and a half years to get through all 2,711 pages of the rabbinic code of law
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Fast Forward The cast of Broadway’s ‘Parade’ says Kaddish before each show, says star Micaela Diamond
'It is an expression of community as we tell this hard story,' writes the actress who plays Lucille Frank in a show about the antisemitic lynching of Frank’s husband Leo.
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