Veronika Bondarenko
By Veronika Bondarenko
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Food Students Flock To Jewish-Italian Cooking Class
Jewish Italian chef and cooking teacher Silvia Nacamulli doesn’t believe in keeping particular recipes in the family, and as she collects the vegetables for eggplant Parmigiana or fried matzo fritters with pine nuts and orange zest, she is constantly thinking of how she can make the recipe easier for her students to follow. “I’m someone…
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Fast Forward French Swimmer’s Hebrew Tattoo Commemorates Auschwitz Survivor Grandpa
The Olympic swimmer who scored a silver medal in Rio this week always has the grandfather who survived Auschwitz in his thoughts — and on his arm. Fabien Gilot, the French swimmer who is part of the the men’s swimming team that won second place in the 4×100 freestyle relay race on Monday, has an…
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Fast Forward 5 Interesting Facts About Israeli Judo Bronze Medalist Yarden Gerbi
The Israeli judo fighter Yarden Gerbi made worldwide headlines after she won bronze in the under-63 kilogram weight category in Rio on Tuesday and secured the country’s first Olympic medal since 2008. While Gerbi celebrates her victory over France’s Clarisse Agbegnenou, here are five other interesting facts that you (probably) didn’t know about this 27-year-old…
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Fast Forward Internet Heats Up Over Comparison of Trump’s Words on Clinton To Rhetoric Preceding Rabin Assassination
The comparison between Donald Trump’s comments about what “Second Amendment people” can do to stop Hillary Clinton and the violent rhetoric that preceded the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 is heating up the Internet. At a rally in North Carolina, Trump said that Republicans who are not happy with Clinton’s comments…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Rat Graffiti Returns to DC Streets for Third Time in One Week
Street art became anti-Semitic graffiti in Washington, D.C. for the third time in one week after vandals wrote “Jew” on images of rats meant to evoke the Chinese Zodiac. On Monday morning, Twitter user Michael Villafranca noticed that a graffiti of a Chinese Zodiac rat with the word “Jew” on it had reappeared on the…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Cousin Aims To Beat a Trump To Become NYC’s Next Mayor
Jon Kushner, cousin to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, has serious plans to run for mayor of New York in 2017 — along with Donald Trump, Jr., he is now the second member of Trump’s extended family to express interest in the position. “He wants to be mayor. It’s his dream. It’s a fantasy of his,”…
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Fast Forward The Secret Jewish History of Rio Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky
Olympic athlete Katie Ledecky’s heritage has always been important to her — her faith and her family push her to succeed both in swimming and in life. Ledecky, who on Sunday broke her own world record — becoming the first woman in history to swim below 3.58 for the 400-meter freestyle — won her second medal…
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Fast Forward Law Professor’s Ex-Wife Denies Involvement in His Murder — After Boyfriend Talks
The former boyfriend of the wife of a murdered law professor has said she should be considered a suspect, and now her family has made its first statement on the case, calling any family involvement “categorically false.” In July 2014, Florida State University professor Dan Markel was shot and killed with a bullet to the…
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