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The Schmooze Zooey Deschanel Is Judaism’s ‘New Girl’ After Conversion
Actress Zooey Deschanel has converted to Judaism. Deschanel, the daughter of a Quaker and Roman Catholic, converted shortly before marrying producer Jacob Pechenik, Us Weekly reported Monday. The article did not say what denomination of rabbi supervised her conversion. The two married in June, a month before the birth of their daughter, Elsie. “Zooey converted…
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Fast Forward Jeb Bush Says ‘Hell Yeah’ He’d Kill Baby Hitler
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said if given the opportunity he would kill Adolf Hitler as a baby. “Hell yeah, I would,” Bush told the Huffington Post in an interview previewed on Monday. “You gotta step up man.” Bush, the former governor of Florida, was responding to an interviewer’s question about the funniest or most…
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Fast Forward Israel Says No Evidence To Charge Firebomb Killers of Palestinian Family
There is still not enough evidence available to indict the Jewish extremists allegedly responsible for the firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed an infant and his parents, Israel’s defense minister said. Without the evidence, the military has placed several Jewish extremists in administrative detention, in which they can be held for six months at…
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Fast Forward British Chief Rabbi Shames Orthodox Husband Who Refuses Religious Divorce
For the first time, London’s main rabbinical court and Britain’s chief rabbi have published the name and photo of a recalcitrant husband, and are calling for him to be banned from synagogues and publicly shunned. In a notice published in the London Jewish Chronicle, the London Beth Din calls for congregations to bar John Abayahoudayan,…
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Fast Forward 400-Year-Old Mikveh Unearthed on German Town’s ‘Jews Lane’
Archaeologists discovered a centuries-old mikvah underneath a vaulted cellar in the former East Germany. The ritual bath in the town of Schmalkalden is located near “Judengasse,” or “Jews’ Lane,” where a 17th-century synagogue stood until it was destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom exactly 77 years ago on Monday, the day the discovery was announced. The…
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Fast Forward Queens School Administrator Claims Anti-Semitism in Lawsuit
A Jewish assistant principal in a New York City public school has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was harassed by his co-workers because of his religion. David Possner filed the suit in federal court in Manhattan against his colleagues at M.S. 226 in South Ozone Park, in the Queens borough, the New York Post…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Brazilian Jews Rally To Support Israel
Over 1,000 Brazilian Jews rallied in five cities calling for peace in Israel. Demonstrators on Sunday marched along the Paulista Avenue, the main business avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city with some 20 million residents and home to 60,000 Jews. “We are very proud to gather such Zionists and engaged people who speak up…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi’s Mausoleum Torched in Ukraine
A Jewish mausoleum in western Ukraine burned down in what a human rights group said may have been a deliberate arson attack connected with a dispute over a commemoration project. The gravesite of Hillel Lichtenstein, a 19th century Jewish sage and former chief rabbi of the Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, was partially destroyed last week…
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