Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward Shake Shack is coming to Israel in 2024, bringing its burgers and custard to Tel Aviv
The company did not answer questions about whether any of its 15 planned locations would be kosher — something that would make its signature products impossible to pair
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Fast Forward Marcus Mumford to perform at controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
One of the groups organizing the memorial, Combatants for Peace, attributed defense minister Yoav Gallant’s decision to reject travel permits for Palestinians attending the event to his near-termination
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Fast Forward Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, Holocaust survivor and bridal empire builder featured on ‘Say Yes to the Dress,’ dies at 99
A granddaughter says her grandmother never saw an episode of the show that brought her namesake store into millions of homes.
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Fast Forward In rare move, haredi magazine publishes photo of a woman — a forgotten donor to European yeshivas
Jennie Miller Faggen donated tens of thousands of dollars to yeshivas in the 1920s, but her contribution has largely been forgotten
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News A new Conservative Jewish Passover policy taps into the booming gluten-free market
One rule instituted as a COVID provision by the Conservative movement is becoming permanent: Before Passover begins, Jews may buy certified kosher products that have kosher-for-Passover ingredients and are certified gluten-free and oat-free — even if they aren’t explicitly certified kosher for Passover
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Fast Forward Amid criticism, Columbia University announces a new research center in Tel Aviv
The Tel Aviv Global Center will focus on climate change, technology, entrepreneurship, arts, the humanities, biology, health and medicine
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Fast Forward It’s a date: Netflix’s ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ debuts May 3
'Finding your person is the hardest thing to do in the entire world,' matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom says in the show’s trailer. 'And that’s where I come in.'
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Culture How an encounter with Guillermo del Toro led to NYC’s first Mexican Jewish Film Festival
The Mexico City-born president of Tribeca Synagogue is organizing the event, which opens April 2
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