Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward An interfaith coalition erased medical debts for over 2,000 people in the Chicago area, inspired by an ancient Jewish custom
The shmita, or sabbatical year, is a Jewish agricultural law during which the land is to be left fallow and debts are to be forgiven.
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Fast Forward Jewish summer camp veterans are opening a camp for trans kids. It was filled within weeks.
Amid anti-trans legislation in their state, a rabbi and a trans activist are spearheading a pioneering summer program.
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Fast Forward A women’s magazine appointed a ‘rabbi in residence.’ It chose a man.
Rabbi Steven Leder will write monthly columns for a magazine that often relies on women experts on health and nutrition.
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Fast Forward This Twitter account went viral for explaining Easter using Jewish jargon
“Our goal is really to make people more aware of the dominant culture, more aware of the Christian-normative society that we live in and just how much of what they accept as just normal, typical American stuff just isn’t universal, or isn’t general American stuff.”
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Fast Forward Orlando’s Holocaust museum is getting a huge expansion
In partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation, Orlando’s Holocaust museum is relocating and expanding.
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Fast Forward Matzah pajamas are the latest trend in a long history of American Jewish branding
(JTA) — Rabbi Yael Buechler conceived of her latest product a whole year ago, after planning ways to make the Passover seder fun for her two young sons. But it wasn’t until she started promoting the matzah pajamas she designed that she decided to make adult sizes, too. After she reached out in December to…
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Fast Forward Ex-Hasidic trans activist Abby Stein photographed by Annie Leibovitz
(JTA) — Abby Stein remembers two things well about her first-ever editorial photo shoot after coming out as an ex-Orthodox trans woman. The first was that the shoot, in her bedroom for Vogue magazine in 2018, was the first time Stein had posed in a bra, and she wasn’t totally comfortable with the experience. The…
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ‘dissent’ collar, judicial robe, bobblehead, among objects heading to Smithsonian
(JTA) — The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s children have donated dozens of objects that symbolize her time on the court and her role as a pop culture icon to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The objects include her famous “dissent” and “majority” collars, which she famously liked to wear to…
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