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Carlos Escude, 72, Driven To Judaism By Argentine Economic Crisis
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — In April, as much of the world introduced limits on movement and commerce in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Argentinean political theorist Carlos Escude waged a one-man protest outside his home in Buenos Aires. In a video that the newspaper Perfil described as “bizarre,” Escude can be…
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I got the vaccine, but did I deserve it?
What is the ethical thing to do when a politician acting on the most cynical of motives throws you a pandemic lifeline? Even the most cynical observers were caught off guard by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis Dec. 23 announcement that the state’s vaccination priority would directly contravene Center for Disease Control guidelines. After frontline…
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A Jewish look at Tuesday’s Senate runoffs in Georgia
Georgia’s twin Senate runoff elections on Tuesday have drawn intense national attention, as they will determine which party controls the Upper House. They also have several significant Jewish storylines. The Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, each raised more than $100 million between mid-October and mid-December, compared to $68 million and $64…
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Jacob Kornbluh joins the Forward as part of newsroom hiring push
As the coronavirus pandemic was first causing controversy in Orthodox enclaves of Brooklyn last spring, the Forward published a profile of Jacob Kornbluh, a Hasidic journalist for Jewish Insider, under the headline, “A prophet in his own city.” Then and throughout the year, Kornbluh’s brave reporting on his own community’s refusal to adhere to social-distancing…
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‘Attacking the prophetic voice’: The Black Church looms large in Warnock’s Senate bid
Turn on a TV in Georgia and you’re likely to see a clip pulled from one of the Rev. Raphael Warnock’s old sermons, painting him as a religious extremist. Grainy footage shows him pumping his fist up and down at the podium of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. “Palestinian lives matter!” Warnock, the Democrat trying to…
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Forward 50 2020: The people we (mostly) needed in the year we (definitely) didn’t
Meet your Forward 50: We’re hosting a series of virtual events with members of the list. Next up on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. ET: Ellie Klein Goldman, Jacob Jonas, Christa Whitney and Ariel Zwang. Sign up here to join the Zoomversation. Let me be the last to say it: This was…
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Israel took no official photos of Pollards’ arrival
Carried by Sheldon Adelson’s private jet, the American who spied for Israel Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther landed at Ben-Gurion Airport early Wednesday morning. They were greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cabinet secretary and acting Prime Minister’s Office Director General Tzahi Braverman and the office’s spokesperson Shir Cohen. Not present…
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A mystery ‘religious leader’ and another guilty plea in Chabad of Poway scandal
The latest guilty plea in the Chabad of Poway financial scandal has connected an additional religious leader to the scheme that rocked a community victimized by a 2019 terrorist attack. Rotem Cooper, 54, admitted Tuesday to defrauding the government and his employer by claiming thousands of dollars in false donations, becoming the eighth person to…
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Too young to vote, these kids are helping get others to the polls in Georgia
Sarah Dowling and Justin Meszler may not be old enough to vote, but they’re making an impact in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff election. “Everyone deserves to have their voice represented in government,” Dowling said. Dowling and Meszler, both 16, are youth volunteers and organizers for “Every Voice, Every Vote,” the Reform movement’s national, non-partisan…
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This customized van is helping UK Holocaust survivors record their stories during the pandemic
(JTA) — As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside a concentration camp just a month before it was liberated. But this spring, as COVID-19 shut down public life, Clarke’s visits to schools and community…
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One year after antisemitic attack, Monsey’s Jewish community is arming itself
NEW YORK – On the one-year anniversary of the antisemitic stabbing attack that rocked the Orthodox community in Monsey, New York, a number of residents in the area told Haaretz that they have applied for gun licenses to defend themselves in the last year. “People out there should know that we’re not just this little…
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