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Meet Gina Zuckerman, the 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Who Beat Off a Mugger
Gina Zuckerman has always been a tough cookie. The 90-year-old Greenwich Village woman survived the Holocaust, worked in the testosterone-infused culture of Madison Avenue, and still lives alone and independently in her studio apartment. So a female mugger who tried to snatch Zuckerman’s purse got more than she could handle when the nonagenarian fought back…
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Shopping for Shofars: The Ultimate Buying Guide for Jews (and Evangelicals, Too)
As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, shofars are blown in synagogues daily to mark the run-up to the High Holy Days. But what about yourself? Do you feel the need to toot your own horn? Look no further, we have compiled a list of the best shofars you can buy online –…
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Will This Invention Make the ‘Shabbos Goy’ Obsolete?
Observant Jews might soon be able to dispense with the “Shabbos goy,” the Gentile neighbor or friend who performs forbidden labor during the Sabbath, reports Orthodox news site “Vos Iz Neias” (Yiddish for “What is News?”). That’s because Morty Kohn, a Brooklyn electrician, has created a new light bulb that he says can effectively be…
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Babi Yar at 75: How Will Changing Ukraine Remember Infamous Nazi Atrocity?
We stand at the edge and watch a family play with a remote-controlled toy car by a playground that’s inside the ravine. A girl tosses a ball in the air as she walks past a monumental menorah and asks her grandmother, “What’s with the celebration?” as she takes note of the flowers and wreaths placed…
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Alt-Right Trolls Offended by Trump’s 400-Pound Hacker Joke
Donald Trump has a gift to alienate entire population swaths with a single one of his insults. Women, Mexicans, Muslims, you name it. But now you can add an unlikely group to this list: alt-right Twitter trolls. 4chan and 8chan, the “alt-right” message boards that originated the Star of David-meme that Trump then retweeted, were…
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ADL Declares ‘Pepe the Frog’ as Official Hate Symbol
The Anti Defamation League (ADL) has added “Pepe the Frog” to its database of online hate symbols. The cartoon frog is a popular meme among “alt-right” Twitter trolls and white supremacists. Pepe the Frog was originally created in 2005 without any anti-Semitic or racist overtones. At the time, it was simply a meme of a…
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5 Things About Shimon and Sonia Peres’s Undying, Tumultuous Love Story
“I married a dairy farmer,” Sonia Peres once said when asked about her husband, Israel’s honored statesman Shimon Peres. The couple, together for 67 years, shared a tumultuous love story, strained by Peres’ lifelong commitment to public service — and his wife’s equally powerful distaste for the spotlight. But if you go back to the…
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Shimon Peres Won Plaudits and Nobel Prize — but Goal of Peace Eluded Him
Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, never realized his vision of a new Middle East built upon a 1993 interim peace deal he helped shape with the Palestinians. But Israel’s elder statesman won world acclaim and a Nobel prize as a symbol of hope in a region long plagued by…
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Who is Mark Cuban — and Why is He Getting Death Threats from Trump Trolls?
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban says he is receiving death threats after baiting Donald Trump on Twitter ahead of Monday’s presidential debate. “Unfortunately, we’ve been getting death threats,” said Cuban, “and Trumpians have been trying to hack everything we have, so I’ve had to spend too much time on security and protecting my family. So that’s…
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Shimon Peres, Israel’s Liberal Elder Statesman, Dies at 93
Israel lost its most honored senior statesman, the last active member of its founding generation, with the death today of Shimon Peres, the former ceremonial state president and ex-prime minister. Peres, who was 93, was rushed to Tel Hashomer Hospital September 13 after suffering a stroke and died the morning of Wednesday September 28, two…
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A Jewish Exodus from France? Not So Fast
After a wave of terror attacks, and a spike in anti-Semitic hate-crimes, French Jews were said to be fleeing en masse for Israel. But figures released this week by the Jewish People’s Policy Institute indicate the exodus isn’t exactly what it’s cracked up to be. According to the research organization, 5,000 French Jews will make…
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