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Yiddish World Online ‘zine’ unites young Yiddishists
Yiddish activist Sarah Biskowitz and Yiddish TikTok star Cameron Bernstein are building a home for new voices through ‘Yiddishistke’
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FIRST PERSON A bar mitzvah boy, a Little League team and a boxer looking for redemption
Emile Griffith, a boxer with a tragic story, sponsored my Little League team. Would he let me skip practice to study for my bar mitzvah?
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Fast Forward On a New Jersey school board, a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is brewing
A parent has taken legal action over a board member’s tweets
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Music The brilliant Jewish artist that time forgot
A pair of reissues is finally focusing attention on master violinist Eudice Shapiro
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Sports Two Jewish guys created the most popular fan podcast in sports. The 76ers had to listen.
To Michael Levin and Spike Eskin, who gab about the Sixers twice a week, ‘there’s definitely a wandering in the desert element to it all’
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Fast Forward Is it OK for a Supreme Court justice to accept bagels and lox from her high school friends?
Elena Kagan had concerns about a Russ & Daughters gift basket. Meanwhile, Clarence Thomas accepted favors reportedly worth millions
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Yiddish מע קען זיך שוין פֿאַרשרײַבן אויף דער „ייִדיש־וואָך“— וווּ אַלץ קומט פֿאָר אויף ייִדישRegistration for the all-Yiddish retreat ‘Yiddish Vokh’ is now open
יונגע משפּחות, סטודענטן און פּענסיאָנערן קענען הערן לעקציעס, שפּילן ספּאָרט אָדער סתּם זיצן און שמועסן בײַ דער אָזערע.
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Fast Forward U.S. ambassador to Israel Tom Nides is resigning
Nides’ efforts to advance a conflict-free U.S.-Israel relationship were undercut by the recent election of a far-right government in Israel
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Forwarding the News Israel strikes Gaza + Interrogating an Orthodox version of ChatGPT
Today: Texas shooter displayed neo-Nazi leanings, Israel plans a new electricity scheme for the ultra-Orthodox and a new report on journalists killed by the IDF.
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