Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward They set out to produce an ‘accessible’ Mishnah. The price tag: $645.
A new Oxford Annotated Mishnah makes the Oral Torah accessible— at a cost.
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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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