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Fast Forward Church Letter on Israel Strains Jewish Ties
When 15 prominent American Protestant leaders sent a letter to Congress last week calling for an investigation and possible suspension of U.S. aid to Israel, at least one outcome was certain: The Jews wouldn’t like it. Already, one major American Jewish group has canceled its participation in an Oct. 22 annual Christian-Jewish roundtable involving representatives…
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Fast Forward ADL Boycotts Interfaith Meeting Over Israel Letter
The Anti-Defamation League withdrew from participating in a national Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogue after church leaders asked Congress to reevaluate U.S. military aid to Israel. The ADL in a statement called the request “a serious breach of trust by mainline Protestant Church leaders” participating in the annual interfaith meeting, which will be held on Oct. 22….
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Fast Forward ADL Slams Nazi References in Politics
The Anti-Defamation League decried three recent reported Nazi analogies used in political debate, all by Democrats. “Earlier today, South Carolina State Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian reportedly evoked Eva Braun when discussing Gov. Nikki Haley’s press briefing from a basement studio at the NASCAR Hall of Fame,” the ADL said in a statement Wednesday. The NASCAR…
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News Can Holocaust Trauma Affect ‘Third Generation’?
Is learning about the Holocaust from your survivor grandparents more traumatic than learning about it from“ Schindler’s List”? Apparently not, according to a new study by Perella Perlstein, herself an ultra-Orthodox granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. That wasn’t the result Perlstein expected when she began the study, conducted while she was a graduate student at Hofstra…
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The Schmooze Live! With Kelly Picks Michael Strahan as Co-host
It’s not everyday that the Shmooze gets to write about Live! With Kelly, arguably one of the best shows on morning television, but today is an exception because Kelly Ripa has finally settled on a co-host: former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan. Key to the selection process was Michael Gelman, who has been…
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The Schmooze ADL to Joan Rivers: Costco Isn’t the Nazis
The Anti-Defamation League called out Joan Rivers out on her comparison between Costco and Nazi Germany, three days after the comedian made a public display outside a Los Angeles Costco store. After Costco made the decision not to carry her book, “I Hate Everything…Starting with Me,” Rivers protested a local store by chaining herself to…
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Fast Forward Russell Simmons Compares Farrakhan to Foxman
Abraham Foxman said Russell Simmon’s likening of the Anti-Defamation League’s national director to Louis Farrakhan was “outrageous and ugly.” Simmons, appearing in Jerusalem at this week’s Israel Presidential Conference with his Foundation for Ethnic Understanding co-founder Rabbi Marc Schneier, defended his friendship with the Nation of Islam leader by saying that just as Farrakhan had…
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News Orthodox Push Case of Jailed Businessman
Gathered outside a Bolivian diplomatic office in New York, several hundred Jewish protesters raised signs and chanted slogans calling for the release of Jacob “Yankel” Ostreicher, a Brooklyn businessman held without charge for a year in the South American nation. A video of the May 3 demonstration reveals a sea of yarmulkes and black hats….
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