Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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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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Fast Forward One of 2 Conservative rabbinical schools in the US is slashing tuition — by nearly 80%
(JTA) — Mark Asher Goodman is beginning to imagine finishing paying off roughly $85,000 in student debt he incurred while training to become a rabbi — nearly two decades after he was ordained. So when his rabbinical school, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, announced last week that it was slashing tuition by nearly 80%,…
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Fast Forward American synagogues mark the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah
(JTA) — Barb Berkowitz became a bat mitzvah at 42 years old. Berkowitz and 11 other women in the adult bat mitzvah class at Temple Emanuel in New Haven, Connecticut, had been studying with Rabbi Jerry Brieger for months. Some had only just learned how to read Hebrew, while others had watched their sons prepare…
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Fast Forward A guided tour of ‘Mrs. Maisel’ locations celebrates 1950s Manhattan
(New York Jewish Week) — “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” aired its fourth season finale on Friday, but if you’re not quite ready to say goodbye to Midge and the rest of the very Jewish gang, the show’s real-life locations across Manhattan are just a vintage car ride away. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Sites Tour from…
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