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Breaking News Conspiracy Theorist Who Targeted Noah Pozner’s Family May Be Fired
Termination proceedings have begun against a faculty member of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton who has been advocating conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. written by Lenny and Veronique Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was one of the victims of the tragedy. In a short statement, Lenny Pozner expressed…
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Breaking News Florida Professor In Hot Water Over Stomp on ‘Jesus’ Exercise
A Florida university has come under fire over a professor’s controversial classroom assignment that asked his students to write “Jesus” on a sheet of paper and then to step on it. The incident earlier this month at the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, has prompted the school to issue an apology and led…
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The Schmooze Striking the Right Note
Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree I’ve been meaning for quite some time now to write about the Judaica Sound Archives, an online treasure trove of American Jewry’s musicological patrimony, but I couldn’t quite find the right note to strike. In the wake of the sudden and untimely passing of Debbie Friedman, whose musical contributions…
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