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The Schmooze Abigail Breslin to Star in ‘Dirty Dancing’ Musical
“Dirty Dancing,” the hit 1987 film about a Jewish college student on vacation at a heavily Jewish Catskills resort, will be adapted into a TV musical. Abigail Breslin will start in the taped musical, which will air on ABC and be written by Jessica Sharzer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Allison Shearmur Productions and Eleanor…
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Fast Forward Dorm at New Jersey College Vandalized With Swastikas
A residence hall at Rowan University in southern New Jersey was vandalized with swastikas and other anti-Semitic grafitti. The Nazi symbols were discovered Thursday and reported to the university administration. The dean of students, Richard Jones, condemned the graffiti in an email Sunday to students, and wrote that police are investigating the incident. “It is…
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Fast Forward Arson-Stricken Bukharians Meet With New York Police and Offiicals
The president of the New York City borough of Queens, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives and numerous other city officials met with Bukharian Jewish leaders about a string of arsons affecting the community of central Asian Jews. At a meeting Tuesday morning at the Bukharian Jewish Community Center in Forest Hills, a…
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The Schmooze Rock-Throwing Palestinian Dolls Seized by Israel
Officials at the Haifa port seized a shipment of thousands of plush dolls with raised hands holding toy rocks. The shipment, from the United Arab Emirates, was on its way to the Palestinian Authority, according to the Times of Israel. The shipment’s paperwork said it was carrying clothing, rugs and plastic products. The dolls are…
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Fast Forward Swedish Flipflop — Prime Minister Admits Israel Stabbings Are Terror
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven withdrew his statement that the recent string of stabbing attacks in Israel do not qualify as terror. Lofven clarified to say he views the stabbings as terror attacks, but meant they are not organized by terrorist organizations, according to Haaretz. Asked on Sunday by TT, a Swedish wire service, whether…
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Fast Forward Israel Arrests Five Suspected ISIS Recruits
Five Arab-Israeli men suspected of pledging support to the Islamic State terror group have been arrested. The arrests by the Israel Police and Shin Bet intelligence agency took place in October and November and were announced Tuesday. They followed an investigation that found the men obtained weapons and practiced with them. In parallel, according to…
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Fast Forward Tibor Rubin, Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, Dies at 86
Tibor Rubin, who survived two years in the Mauthausen concentration camp and then two-and-a-half years in a Chinese prisoner of war camp during the Korean war, died at age 86. Rubin died Saturday in Garden Grove, Calif. His death was attributed to natural causes. Born in Paszto, a Hungarian shtetl of 120 Jewish families, Rubin…
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Fast Forward Queen’s Australia Representative Visits Sydney’s Great Synagogue
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Australia, attended a Shabbat service last at Sydney’s Great Synagogue with his wife. The synagogue’s Chief Minister Rabbi Benjamin Elton met the couple at the synagogue’s gates. The conregation’s roots date back to 1828, 40 years after British colonists first came to Australia. “Their Excellencies had…
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