Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward Jewish groups slam Argentine president for repeatedly comparing number of COVID-19 deaths to the Holocuast
“We know that the pandemic has killed between one and two Holocausts,” President Alberto Fernández said for the second time in two months.
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Fast Forward Federal investigation finds Arizona school district failed to respond to antisemitic harassment against a Jewish student
The student was subjected to five months of antisemitic harassment from her classmates on social media and at school
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Fast Forward Louisville Jewish community hires ex-officer connected to controversy over Breonna Taylor killing
Critics say hiring a security supervisor involved in ‘controversial command decisions’ sends wrong message to the Black community
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Fast Forward ‘Challah’ and ‘tefillin’ were code words in the Chabad of Poway’s tax fraud scheme
An attorney has been given jail time for conspiring with the former Chabad rabbi convicted of tax fraud. They referred to the cash as “challah” and the source of the money as 'the baker'
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Culture We spoke to Miriam, the Hebrew tutor Nathan Fielder hired for his fake family on HBO’s ‘The Rehearsal’
Meet Miriam Eskenasy: "an Israeli, New York, chutzpahdik, Jewish person"
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Fast Forward Vatican cardinal with Jewish ancestry honors Jewish-born nun and saint who was murdered at Auschwitz
Cardinal Czerny noted that his mother’s relatives, despite their conversion to Catholicism, were also persecuted by the Nazis for having Jewish ancestry
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News Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ to study religious text — and drink beer
This Jewish tavern from the co-creators of Sefaria and PocketTorah aims to revolutionize Jewish communal spaces, in the spirit of the Frankfurt Lehrhaus of the 1920s
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Fast Forward A rabbi who benefited from Wexner’s foundation is donating equivalent sum to victims of sex trafficking
Danya Ruttenberg, an advocate for making amends, writes of her “unease” as an alum of a program funded by Leslie Wexner, the Jewish philanthropist who had close ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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