Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Film & TV The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish
A YIVO scholar translates a popular sea shanty about ‘yam-narishkaytn.’
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News What can ‘Disney adults’ teach us about religion? A lot, according to this professor.
Jodi Eichler-Levine, who went viral for her Disney discourse on Twitter, talks about the parallels between Judaism and the most passionate fans of the Disney universe.
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Fast Forward Couple’s Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises eyebrows — and renews questions about online services
“Set it and forget it” went wildly wrong at one Minneapolis-area synagogue.
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Fast Forward Hatzalah sues another Jewish ambulance service in Florida for trademark infringement
The founder of Hatzalah Palm Beach says the New York-based Chevra Hatzalah Inc. is suing him because he allows women in his ambulance corps.
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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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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: שפּורן פֿון אַ געטאָ־בונקער אַנטדעקט אין בענדין, פּוילןTidbits: Traces of a ghetto bunker uncovered in Będzin, Poland
פֿון אָט דעם בונקער האָבן ייִדן אין אויגוסט 1943 געפֿירט אַ ווידערשטאַנד קעגן די דײַטשן.
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