Rachel Delia Benaim

By Rachel Delia Benaim

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  The Schmooze

  How About a Swastika With Your Uber?

  JPUpdates.com, DNAInfo As if Uber hasn’t gotten enough negative press this month, the NYPD is investigating the flyers showing swastikas above the taxi app’s logo that have mysteriously appeared on Bedford Avenue, in Brooklyn. Officer’s in NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force division officers are investigating the flyers, posted Monday night, as a potential hate crime….

  By Rachel Delia Benaim Sep 16, 2014 | < 1 min read
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  Opinion

  Jewish Press Ad for Gay ‘Conversion’ Therapy Causes Outrage

  Getty Images The Jewish Press’ advertisement for JONAH International, an organization dedicated to gay “conversion” therapy, sparked outrage on social media today. The ad, featured on the site’s homepage, prominently displays the organization’s navy and white logo in the foreground, with their tagline mission statement — “Institute for Gender Affirmation: Overcoming Homosexuality” — and organizational…

  By Rachel Delia Benaim Sep 10, 2014 | 3 min read
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  The Schmooze

  Cutest Maccabeat Goes Solo

  Noah ‘Noey’ Jacobson, 24, part owner and member of The Maccabeats, launched his solo career yesterday when he posted a medley covering Clean Bandits Rather Be and Nico & Vinz’s hit single “Am I Wrong.” “I’ve been singing with the Maccabeats for five years,” he said. “At some point I said to myself, ‘I’m happiest…

  By Rachel Delia Benaim Sep 9, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  ProSwastika Alliance Gets 501c3 Nonprofit Status

  A Swedish punk rocker with a swastika tattoo. / Getty Images It’s been a big month for swastikas. They were recently featured by Spiritual Punx on their donut swazi tee, and now they’re officially on their way to rehabilitation. At least that’s what Thomas Kaenzig, Raelian Guide and President of the ProSwastika Alliance, wants us…

  By Rachel Delia Benaim Sep 4, 2014 | 2 min read
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  Fast Forward

  McCarthy-Era Prisoner Asks Judge to Overturn Espionage Conviction

  More than half a century after a jury implicated Miriam Moskowitz in the Cold War atomic espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the 98-year-old retired New Jersey math teacher is asking a federal judge to throw out her 1950 conviction, the New York Daily News reported. One of the last living links to the…

  By Rachel Delia Benaim Aug 13, 2014 | 2 min read
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  Fast Forward

  Israeli Professor Mordechai Kedar Will Continue With U.S. Speaking Tour

  Israeli scholar and law professor Mordechai Kedar, who made headlines recently for his comments about rape as a way to combat Hamas terrorism, says that the backlash to this controversy has done little, if anything, to affect his academic speaking tour through North American university campuses, which is scheduled for this upcoming winter. Last month,…

  By Rachel Delia Benaim Aug 13, 2014 | 2 min read