Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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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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Fast Forward Former school executive allegedly stole more than $8 million from a Long Island Jewish day school
The Suffolk County district attorney’s office said Ostrove used the stolen funds to buy five houses, rare cars and jewels and to pay for his daughter’s college tuition
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Fast Forward René Slotkin, one of the few surviving ‘Mengele twins,’ dies at 84
Slotkin and his sister were among just 200 sets of twins to survive gruesome experimentation by the infamous Nazi physician Josef Mengele at Auschwitz
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News COVID came to Jewish camps this summer, sending staff and parents scrambling
'I don't think any of us were prepared,' said Jeremy Fingerman, head of the Foundation for Jewish Camp
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Fast Forward Groups launched to help Jewish couples with IVF face uncertain landscape after Roe reversal
The new legal landscape surrounding reproductive health threatens to affect organizations that emerged in recent years to help Jews fulfill the biblical mandate to be fruitful and multiply.
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Fast Forward Tennessee court dismisses Jewish couple’s lawsuit alleging religious bias in adoption law
Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram have successfully fostered a teenaged girl despite being turned down for training by a Tennessee adoption agency
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