Sarah Brown
By Sarah Brown
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Fast Forward Can shrimp and crab make your kosher Sabra hummus Salmonella-free?
There is a possible solution to Salmonella contamination in your kosher hummus: Shrimp and crabs. On Monday, Sabra, the world’s leading hummuseria, issued a voluntary recall on some containers of its Classic Hummus, a certified kosher product, for possible Salmonella contamination. According to a statement by Sabra and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), approximately…
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Culture Your 2021 guide to virtual Passover seders
While the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and loosened restrictions on gatherings will allow some families, friends, and congregations to be together this Passover, the majority of us are preparing for yet another pandemic Passover. Last year, Jewish communities around the country came together virtually to celebrate the holiday, the first of what would become a full…
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Fast Forward Boulder Jewish community responds to tragic mass shooting
The Boulder Jewish community is coming together to grieve the 10 lives lost in the devastating mass shooting that took place in a Boulder supermarket on Monday. The Boulder JCC will host “Coming Together as a Community ,” a virtual gathering of synagogues, Haver (Boulder’s Rabbinic Council), and the Boulder JCC to mourn the victims…
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Fast Forward Jewish GOP leader wants Republican men to reconsider getting the COVID-19 vaccine
The Jewish vice chair of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, Tom Mountain, is using his personal experience with COVID-19 to appeal to his “fellow Republican men” to get vaccinated. In an op-ed published in the Boston Globe, Mountain recounted the “debilitating” case of COVID-19 he contracted two days after attending the White House Hanukkah Party…
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Fast Forward Chicago to determine the fate of Polish-Jewish monument in racial reckoning
A public monument featuring Revolutionary War financier Haym Saloman, a Polish-Jewish American businessman, may be removed from where it stands in Chicago’s Heald Square. The monument, along with 40 others, is under review by the Chicago Monument Project as part of the city’s effort to “address the hard truths of Chicago’s racial history.” The project…
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Fast Forward Petition to cut ties with Israeli institutions circulates at University of Illinois at Chicago
Students at University of Illinois at Chicago are calling for the university’s School of Public Health (SPH) to cut all ties with Israeli academic institutions. A petition drafted and circulated online by UIC’s Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP) has gathered over 200 signatures in under 48 hours. The petition protests an upcoming virtual lecture…
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Culture Documentary explores the “Shared Legacies” of America’s Black and Jewish communities
In March of 1968, in the throes of the American Civil Rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. attended the conservative movement’s annual Rabbinical Assembly convention in the Catskills to honor one of his closest friends and collaborators, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Upon arrival, King and Heschel were greeted by hundreds of rabbis lining the…
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Fast Forward Confederate flag tied to door of Jewish museum in New York
A Confederate flag was found tied to the front door of Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan Friday morning. Museum officials believe someone placed the flag overnight and are working with police to identify suspects. “This is an atrocious attack on our community and on our institution and must be met with the swift and…
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