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Danny Michelson, 76, Co-Founder Of Boutique London Grocer
(JTA) — La Fromagerie began with a wheel of Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage, procured by chance on a skiing holiday in the French alps, and a garden shed. Back in 1992, Patrician and Danny Michelson sold their home to open their first cheese shop in the north London neighborhood of Highbury. Patricia had previously been selling…
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French town famous for saving Jews in Holocaust elects mayor accused of anti-Semitism
(JTA) — The municipal council of Moissac sometimes calls its placid French town overlooking the Tarn River, near Toulouse, “the city of the Righteous Among the Nations.” It’s a reference to how hundreds of locals during the Holocaust helped resistance activists rescue about 500 Jewish children — an occurrence that Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum,…
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Bay Area community rallies for family of Dr. Ari Gershman, killed in shooting in the Sierras
A GoFundMe campaign for the family of a Bay Area Jewish doctor shot and killed while off-roading with his teenage son in a remote part of Sierra County, Calif. has so far raised over a half-million dollars. Ari Gershman, a 46-year-old pulmonary doctor who worked in pharmaceutical research, was with his son Jack when the…
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What it’s like to start a job as a rabbi mid-pandemic
(JTA) — This is how Jason Nevarez thought starting his new job as senior rabbi of San Diego’s Congregation Beth Israel would go: He and his wife would fly out this spring from their home in suburban New York to house hunt. He’d spend the summer holding face-to-face meetings with colleagues and congregants. Then he’d…
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Toronto restaurant owner Kimberly Hawkins is defiantly anti-Semitic as her business crumbles around her
What a difference a week has made to Kimberly Hawkins—the owner of Foodbenders catering company in downtown Toronto. In just a week Hawkins’ take-out and catering business of seven years has gone from being renowned for its fresh, healthy options to infamous for her unhealthy hateful obsession with the Jewish state. A little more than…
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‘My conscience is clean;” Dani Dayan speaks about the end of his term
Comments poured in during Wednesday’s “exit interview” with Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General for New York, moderated by Jodi Rudoren and Andrew Silow-Carroll, editors-in-chief of the Forward and The Jewish Week respectively. Dayan’s term is ending during a particularly tense moment in the Israeli-American relationship, and the audience’s chat box and submissions to the Q&A…
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The Agony Of The COVID-19 Obituarist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The sobs came over the phone as Michael Beer described his father Ira’s lifelong commitment to Torah study and his family. A victim of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people across the world, Ira Beer had come to my attention during the course of my work on…
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Will there be Orthodox women rabbis in Israel?
The headlines heralded what many of us have been agitating for years: Orthodox women are going to be recognized as rabbis in Israel. All over social media, Orthodox women virtually cheered, as did their allies. But that excitement after last week’s decision by Israel’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, to require the rabbinate to accept women’s…
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Meet Mark Shepard, the Jewish college student who talked Stephen Jackson off the ledge of anti-Semitism
Nobody else was calling out former NBA star Stephen Jackson for publicly spewing anti-Semitic comments, so Mark Shepard, a 19-year-old college student, stepped up. “I said, ‘Dude you’re an anti-Semite’ to get his attention,” Shepard recalled Thursday in a phone interview. Jackson made his comments on Instagram Live after his friend DeSean Jackson, a star…
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‘I understand the hurt’ Stephen Jackson tells Rabbi David Wolpe
Stephen Jackson speaks with Rabbi David Wolpe about antisemitism
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WATCH NOW: July 13: An Interview with Cory Booker
WATCH HERE. How can Jews best fight racism? What is next for police reform in Congress? Is Washington doing enough to contain coronavirus? What does the 2020 campaign look like for a former contender? Join Jodi Rudoren, Editor-in-Chief of the Forward, for a candid conversation with the Senator from New Jersey and former Democratic presidential…
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