Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
Torres may challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul in a primary in 2026
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Fast Forward Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish Democrat, launches bid for New Jersey governor
Gottheimer, 49, is a moderate, pro-Israel Democrat who was just elected to his fifth term in the U.S. House
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Politics ‘I’m an American, but I’m also Jewish’: How Yeshiva University women are voting for president
Some students at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University’s women’s school, say their values are in tension this election
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Culture ‘A Real Pain’ is Jesse Eisenberg’s love letter to Poland, the country his family left under duress
Eisenberg directs and stars in the road-trip movie with Kieran Culkin, who plays his cousin
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Fast Forward Prominent NYC synagogue reveals sexual assault allegation against its renowned late rabbi
Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, who died in 1993, transformed B’nai Jeshurun on the Upper West Side
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Fast Forward Jewish members of Park Slope Food Coop file state complaint alleging antisemitic, anti-Israel harassment
The complaint represents a bid for government intervention in the store’s ongoing infighting
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Politics Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein for president
Duke cited Stein’s opposition to Israel, and former president Trump’s ‘subservience to Israel and to the Jewish lobby,’ as the explanation for his endorsement
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Fast Forward UK group urges families to ‘save a seat in the sukkah’ for hostages in Gaza, in a new take on a Jewish tradition
The initiative riffs on “ushpizin,” the practice of inviting symbolic guests to the temporary huts built for the Sukkot holiday
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