Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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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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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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