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This one-time refugee and former Israeli paratrooper just won a seat in her county legislature
Thirty years after she was airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel fleeing religious persecution, Mazi Melesa Pilip won public office on Long Island earlier this month. The Jewish Republican unseated another Jewish woman in heavily Democratic North Hempstead, New York. Pilip, 42, beat Ellen Birnbaum — a four-term Democratic legislator, to represent Nassau County’s 10th district…
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The (more modest, less partisan) White House Hanukkah party is on!
It was touch and go for the White House Hanukkah party this year. For the longest time, no one knew whether it was happening at all. It came together at practically the last minute, just a few days before the holiday began. And it appears as if the guest list is far skimpier than in…
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Your turn: Readers share (strong) feelings about Christmas, Hanukkah and the so-called ‘holiday season’
In her latest “Looking Forward” column, our editor-in-chief, Jodi Rudoren, went on something of a rant about a new Old Navy commercial purporting to celebrate the “ALL-idays” but in fact redolent of the colors, symbols and sayings of Christmas. Rudoren acknowledged that she has always had a big Christmas chip on her shoulder, and said…
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Jurors award $25 million to Charlottesville plaintiffs, deadlocked on federal racially-motivated conspiracy
The jury deadlocked on whether defendants in the Charlottesville trial had committed “racially motivated violence” under federal law. But the attorneys in this landmark civil case against neo-Nazis won a verdict Tuesday that allowed them to declare victory. Jurors found 24 far-right individuals and organizations had broken Virginia civil conspiracy laws, and had assaulted and…
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Einstein manuscript goes for $11 million at auction, highest ever paid for the genius’ memorabilia
A rare 54-page manuscript with Albert Einstein’s early scribblings on the general theory of relativity sold for $11.4 million at Christie’s auction house in Paris on Tuesday. The documents were expected to sell for $3 million, but many in the room seemed surprised when the bidding went on for more than 15 minutes. The sale…
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Miami’s Hebraica Maccabi Games celebrate Jewish—and Latin American—culture
Call it a field of Latin American Jewish dreams. Last Sunday, hundreds of children in bright team colors surged across a sun-drenched Miami sports field as their families from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil cheered them on. They were there for Miami’s annual Hebraica Maccabi Games, which for four decades has brought together…
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A quirky Israeli-born newcomer may win an even quirkier NY election
He made two unsuccessful bids for the Israeli Knesset, was twice a contestant on Israel’s Big Brother reality show, was arrested for failing to pay child support, invented an anti-vaccine mandate cryptocurrency and now awaits the results of an election too close to call for town supervisor of Canajoharie, New York. Benny Goldstein, 44, is…
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Meet Emma Rosenzweig-Bock, the dancer featured in Sia’s Christmas song video, ‘Pin Drop’
When Emma Rosenzweig-Bock joined Jacob Jonas The Company in 2017, she never imagined that she’d end 2021 as a featured dancer in a Sia music video. “Pin Drop,” the video that premiered last week, features the Santa Monica, California native and other Jacob Jonas dancers interacting with an environment of sand and haze set to…
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Meet the Jewish seminary chair suing Nazis in Charlottesville
Alan Levine was schmoozing with friends at the Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons in the summer of 2017, two weeks after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, when he first heard of a plan to sue the far-right organizers. Robbie Kaplan, the celebrity litigator and a longtime friend, announced that she wanted to…
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This is not my ‘holiday season.’ Please leave me out of it.
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. My first thought when I saw Old Navy’s new “Happy ALL-idays” commercial was: How clever, I can’t believe nobody came up with that term before….
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Another retailer removes ‘gas the Jews’ mug, other products
This article first appeared in Cleveland Jewish News. Reprinted with permission. A content creation platform that listed items with the words “Damnit! I said glass of juice not gas the Jews!” has removed the posting and notified the third-party vendor that the vendor’s access has been blocked. “Please note that our platform only produces physical…
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