Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Staff member at Washington, D.C. school told third-graders to reenact scenes from the Holocaust
(JTA) — Students at a Washington, D.C. elementary school were instructed by a staff member to reenact scenes from the Holocaust Friday, according to the Washington Post. When the students asked why the Germans killed Jews, the staff member said it was “because the Jews ruined Christmas.” The third-graders at Watkins Elementary School were supposed to…
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Fast Forward Israel may bar travel to United States as NY staff walloped by latest COVID wave
(JTA) — Israel’s Health Ministry recommended barring Israelis from traveling to the United States due to the coronavirus outbreak of the Omicron variant there. The government is set to vote on the recommendation Sunday evening and, if the recommendation is accepted, the travel restrictions would go into effect Wednesday. Foreign travelers have been barred from…
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Fast Forward Son’s irreverent obituary for his ‘plus-sized Jewish lady redneck’ mother goes viral
(JTA) — “A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday.” It’s considered poor journalistic form to begin an article with a quotation. But journalists are also supposed to show, not tell, and there’s no better way to explain the irreverent, hilarious obituary that Andy Corren wrote for his mother, Renay Mandel Corren,…
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Fast Forward Henry Orenstein, the Transformers toys inventor, Holocaust survivor and poker star, is dead at 98
(JTA) — Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor who went on to invent the Transformers toys and became a major donor to Jewish and Israeli causes, died Tuesday at the age of 98. Orenstein became a best-selling toy maker with his Transformers line, which he first created in the early 1980s. He followed up on that…
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Fast Forward Violent attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank are up nearly 50% from last year
There have been 397 attacks so far in 2021, compared to 272 attacks in 2020.
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Fast Forward Christmas pigs raised by Jewish farmers get pardoned by Jewish mayor
(JTA) — A Cuban restaurant is no place for a Jewish piglet to be so close to Christmas — unless of course, that pig is being pardoned in Miami’s annual pig pardoning ceremony. Since 2017, Miami has celebrated a pig pardoning event ahead of Christmas in recognition of the large Hispanic population in the South…
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Fast Forward New York Times says its story about Gaza poetry class ‘did not accurately reflect’ professor’s views on Israeli poetry
(JTA) — A professor in Gaza whom the New York Times profiled as “calmly teaching Israeli poetry” has in fact derided Israeli poems in class, according to a 266-word editor’s note the newspaper appended to the original story Tuesday. The article, written by the paper’s Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley and published last month, “did…
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Fast Forward New Jewish study programs in Chicago and Washington to offer egalitarian alternatives to traditional yeshivas
(JTA) — Programs of Jewish study that break with the gender-segregated traditions of the Orthodox yeshiva are coming to Chicago and Washington. Hadar, the New York-based egalitarian yeshiva, announced Sunday that it would hire a full-time staffer to run classes in Chicago. And in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, rabbi of the Modern Orthodox synagogue…
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