Rick Harrison
By Rick Harrison
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News Study Finds Nationwide Increase in Antisemitic Incidents
A wave of antisemitic incidents is raising alarm in the country’s second- and third-largest Jewish communities. Several synagogues in Los Angeles have received almost identical hate mail in recent weeks that has arrived in large manila envelopes addressed to “Jew child molesters” and “Jew murderers.” Hate-filled handwritten messages were scrawled across the envelopes in red…
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News Where the Torah Meets the Torus
While watching a science fiction program alone in his Newton, Mass., apartment in 1968, Stan Tenen saw a strange code flash across the screen, prompting him to consult the opening passage of Genesis — in the original Hebrew. “This was a strange urge,” he admits in one of his instructional videos, “because I didn’t know…
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News These Kids Can Jump: Boychik Team Wins Illinois Title
The hardiest stereotype in basketball is that “white men can’t jump.” If this view needed disproving, a boy’s high school team with an all-Jewish starting five has won the Class AA Illinois state title. The victory, several observers said, hearkens back to a pre-World War II era, when Jewish players dominated the game at all…
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News Keeping Songs Alive — With Karaoke
Mention karaoke, and most people think about tacky bars where alcohol-impaired customers mumble forgettable renditions of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” or maybe something more contemporary from the songbook of Britney Spears. But a father and son in California are following the bouncing ball online with a more sober mission, using karaoke as a way…
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Culture YIVO Opens Internet Portal to the Past
Ever wonder what it was like to walk down Lubartovska Street in the Polish city of Lublin in 1937? Or what a Jewish self-defense group in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa looked like in 1918? Or how a kindergarten music class in a Lithuanian Jewish school sounded 70 years ago? A new curriculum targeted…
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Israel News Ali G’s Jokes Aside, Report Lauds Kazakhstan
When Jewish organizations lobbied for a law requiring the U.S. Department of State to issue an annual report on antisemitism around the globe, they probably weren’t looking to do a favor for Kazakhstan. The Central Asian country is a frequent target of “Da Ali G Show,” the HBO program in which British Jewish comedian Sacha…
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News Students Chop Cemetery’s Pine Trees
Santa Claus might not have to check his list twice to judge the naughtiness of five college students in Michigan who hopped the fence of a Jewish cemetery on December 6. According to police, the students cut down a pair of pine trees to decorate their dormitory. Four 18-year-old boys and one 19-year-old girl, all…
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News Florida Woman Wanted After Abduction Threat
A woman from Boca Raton, Fla., who in recent years has placed ads in the Forward imploring readers to pressure courts to return custody of her two children to her, is wanted by the police for nonpayment of child support and for improper contact after placing ads in a local newspaper seeking others to help…
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