Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Trump picks Jewish space adventurer Jared Isaacman to head NASA
Isaacman has made headlines with his private adventures into outer space
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Fast Forward Family of hostage Keith Siegel buries its matriarch, 424 days into his captivity in Gaza
“It’s just unfair for him not to be here,” Aviva Siegel said of her husband at Gladys Siegel’s funeral in North Carolina
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Fast Forward Andorra, where non-Catholic houses of worship are illegal, gets its first full-time rabbi
Kuty Kalmenson and his family will serve the principality’s tiny Jewish population — and the likely larger number of Jewish tourists
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Fast Forward Far-right politician who praised Nazi collaborators shocks with top finish in Romanian presidential election
Calin Georgescu now heads to a runoff against a liberal lawmaker
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Fast Forward Three arrested in murder of rabbi in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
Zvi Kogan was one of five Chabad rabbis to move to the UAE since Israel normalized relations in 2020
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Politics 79% of Jews voted for Kamala Harris, according to largest preliminary exit poll
Some pundits had warned that Jews were defecting from the Democrats in large numbers
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Fast Forward Argentina’s Javier Milei likens Jewish foreign minister to Abraham the patriarch during swearing-in ceremony
Milei, who studies regularly with a rabbi but is not Jewish, name-checked the week’s Torah portion, Lech Lecha
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Politics ‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,’ Donald Trump says at Georgia rally
The comments come after the Trump campaign deployed a Holocaust survivor to reject allegations that the former president is a fascist
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