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Your weekend reads: Cicadas, a tour of the Lower East Side, and antisemitism on TikTok
Each week, Forward editors pick highlights from our coverage to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. You can download and print a PDF of those stories by clicking here, or click on any of the headlines below. Have a great weekend!
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Jared Moskowitz, Florida’s Democratic ‘master of disaster,’ has stepped down. But he may not be gone for long.
(JTA) — The tweet pinned to the top of Jared Moskowitz’s feed is a 46-word rebuke. All 46 words are “MASKS,” and Moskowitz, Florida’s youthful director of emergency management until last Friday, acknowledged that a prime target of the tweet was his boss, Gov. Ron DeSantis. “The governor and I, you know, disagree on masks,”…
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Marine chaplain’s website post blamed ‘Men of Israel’ for killing Christ
A U.S. Marine chaplain’s summary of a New Testament passage that appeared on military websites blamed the “Men of Israel” for killing Christ. The remarks, written for Easter, were part of a post by the chaplain published on both Camp Lejeune and Department of Defense websites. The post stayed up for weeks before complaints to…
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Amid pandemic misery, India’s Jews try to stay safe while offering relief to the hardest hit
(JTA) — Nissim Pingle, the head of Mumbai’s Jewish community center, hasn’t left his home since March. That’s when COVID-19 began to overtake India. A second wave of infections has overwhelmed its health system and is producing a daily death toll of at least 4,000. The country is on track to have the world’s highest…
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Two disasters later, a Tokyo synagogue gets a new rabbi
Shortly after a tsunami devastated Japan in March 2011, Andrew Scheer gathered up food and supplies from where he lived on the Upper West Side and traveled there. The March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami pummeled northeastern Japan, particularly the region of Fukushima—where a nuclear reactor melted down. It spiraled into an unprecedented crisis. Japan’s…
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In Seattle, a Jewish school turned mosque is bringing Jews and Muslims together
(JTA) — (The Cholent via JTA) — Nearly 100 years after Seattle’s first Jewish school opened, an effort is underway to restore its crumbling building — as a multifaith center that can unite Jews and Muslims in the city. So far, the effort has netted more than $40,000 toward a new roof for the building…
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The end of the Netanyahu era? Not quite yet
You have to feel for President Reuven Rivlin, a quintessential democrat, an old school gentleman and a mensch for all seasons. He thought he’d seen it all, yet nothing prepared him to task a politician with forming a government for the seventh time in as many years. More than anyone, Rivlin knows this ain’t over…
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‘His voice was the sound of music:’ An American Hasid lost on Mt. Meron
Rabbi Shragi Gestetner was born to make music. He started composing when he was 12. He sold his first song at 18. His debut album, Shragee, pulsates with the joy of a man who has found his calling. The year after it came out, Tablet called Gestetner one of the “rising talents of the current…
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‘Second class citizens’: LGBTQ students allege culture of alienation and fear at Yeshiva University
Molly Meisels, then a senior at Yeshiva University, was greeted in class last fall with an unusual message from a professor: “I don’t care if you’re a ‘he,’ a ‘she,’ or an ‘it.’” Meisels, 22, one of only a few openly LGBTQ undergraduates at the more than 2,000-strong university, recalled feeling taken aback but not…
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Jewish ‘Harper’s letter’ decries lack of dissent in racial justice movement
Dozens of notable American Jewish thinkers and activists have signed a letter condemning the alleged “suppression of dissent” among Jews. The document, organized by the new Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, is modeled on the “Harper’s letter,” released last summer in opposition to a growing “illiberalism” its authors feared is stifling debate and threatening democracy….
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Milton Steinberg, 96, Lover Of Cantorial Music
(JTA) — On the most solemn day of the Jewish calendar, the voice of Milton Steinberg rose to the heavens. For more than a decade Steinberg, a Holocaust survivor with a resonant voice and a lifelong passion for cantorial music, joined Cantor Shimon Craimer of the Riverdale Jewish Center during the recitation of the Avodah…
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