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The Schmooze Reese Witherspoon Plans Movie About Barbie Doll’s Jewish Creator
Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon is co-producing and possibly starring in a film in the works about the Barbie doll’s Jewish creator. Witherspoon, who won an Academy Award for her performance in “Walk the Line” in 2006, is partnering with Bold Films on an adaptation of the 2010 book “Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the…
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Fast Forward Pro-BDS British Professor Refuses To Answer 13-Year-Old Israeli Girl’s Question
A British-American Jewish academic told a 13-year-old Israeli girl seeking information for a school project that she would not help her “until there is peace and justice for Palestinians in Palestine.” Shachar Rabinovitch of Zichron Yaakov, sent an email to Marsha Levine, a former academic at the University of Cambridge, to learn about the early…
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Fast Forward Google Denies Deal With Israel To Police YouTube For Incitement
Google has denied an Israeli government claim that it has agreed to jointly monitor YouTube videos that incite attacks on Israelis. Google, which owns YouTube, denied that it had made such an agreement at a meeting last week of the company’s executives with Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Tzipi Hotovely. A statement about the meeting released…
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Fast Forward Israeli Munich Olympics Terror Victims Were Brutalized and Castrated
Family members of the victims of the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians during the 1972 Games in Munich only learned the horrifying details of how they were treated 20 years later. The Israelis — athletes and coaches — were beaten and, in at least one case, castrated during the 20 hours that they were held…
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Fast Forward Western Wall Rabbi Ordered To Include Women In Hanukkah Candle-Lighting
The Attorney General’s Office in Israel has ordered the rabbi of the Western Wall to include women in the annual national candle-lighting ceremony for Hanukkah. “Preventing women from participating in national ceremonies is wrongful discrimination and we request that you ensure this fact is not taken for granted and that steps are being taken to…
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The Schmooze Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Just Compared Youtube to the Nazis
The singer of the English alternative band Radiohead said that YouTube and its parent company, Google, have “seized control” of art like the Nazis did during World War II. “People continue to say that this is an era where music is free, cinema is free,” Thom Yorke said in an interview with the Italian newspaper…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Israeli Jews Declare War on Christmas
A group of far-right Jewish activists protested outside the Jerusalem YMCA over an event they believed encouraged Jewish children to decorate Christmas trees. Members of Lehava, a group in Israel that opposes Arab-Jewish coexistence, claimed that Sunday’s event decorating the trees was targeting Jewish children. The event was intended for Jerusalem Christians. “The appeal was…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor George Weidenfeld Bankrolls Rescue of 2,000 ISIS Victims
A British Jew who fled Nazi-ruled Austria as a child is funding the rescue of up to 2,000 Middle East Christians. George Weidenfeld, a publisher who is also a member of Britain’s House of Lords, says he has “a debt to repay” to Christians fleeing ISIS, because the Quakers and the Plymouth Brethren fed and…
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