Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Culture HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ contains an anti-Semitic stereotype
This story contains spoilers. (JTA) — Like more than 1 million Americans in each of the last three weeks, I’ve been appreciating “Lovecraft Country,” the new HBO series that adds monsters and other fantasy elements to the real-life horror stories faced by Black Americans. The show’s main characters are all Black, and the white characters…
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Fast Forward This sea lion-shofar mashup is spot-on
(JTA) — Now that it’s Elul, the month that precedes Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world is filling with the sounds of the shofar. But what about Sea World? Try listening to this 100 times. ? pic.twitter.com/GV277Kwkm8 — Johnny Kunza (@johnkunza) August 23, 2020 A viral video combining the call of sea lions with the blasts…
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Fast Forward NJ man pleads guilty to threatening Orthodox Jews for pandemic
(JTA) — A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to threatening the Jewish community of Lakewood over violations of the state’s lockdown rules that took place there in March. Anthony Lodespoto, 43, pleaded guilty to charges of “bias intimidation” on Friday, New Jersey Advance Media reported Monday. Prosecutors are seeking a six-month jail term for…
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Fast Forward Republican Congressional candidate deletes photos from Hitler’s retreat vacation
(JTA) — A right-wing Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina has taken down pictures he posted to Instagram from a 2017 vacation to the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazi retreat in Germany that Hitler visited more than a dozen times. Just seeing these @CawthornforNC Instagram posts from 2017…my god. Referring to Hitler with the honorific “Führer.”…
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Fast Forward Israel’s hockey captain signs to play in Oswiecim, aka Auschwitz
(JTA) — When the captain of Israel’s ice hockey team takes the ice for the coming season, he will be just a short walk from the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp where Nazis murdered nearly 1 million Jews during the Holocaust. Eliezer Sherbatov, 28, signed last week to the local team in Oswiecim, the Polish name…
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Fast Forward Jewish Congressional candidate Alex Morse faces allegations of inappropriate relationships
(JTA) — Alex Morse, the 31-year-old gay, Jewish progressive Democrat running to unseat a longtime congressman in Massachusetts is facing allegations that he had inappropriate relationships with students at local colleges. Morse is the mayor of the town of Holyoke. The College Democrats of Massachusetts announced that the group would sever ties with Morse in…
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Fast Forward Report: Trump lashes out at Sheldon Adelson, one of his biggest donors
(JTA) — Sheldon Adelson might be one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors, but that doesn’t mean the two men have a warm relationship. According to a report in Politico this weekend, Trump appeared not to understand Adelson’s significance when the president spoke to him last week — and lashed out at the casino magnate for…
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Fast Forward The Met Museum updates tefillin description
(JTA) — Days after a small corner of the internet erupted with criticism of how the Metropolitan Museum of Art labeled a Jewish ritual object in its collection, the New York museum has quietly revised the description. Where its website had previously called tefillin, the leather boxes and straps used in prayer by observant Jews,…
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