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Fast Forward Witnesses Testify Against White Supremacist Charged in Kansas Jewish Murders
A Kansas police officer testified on Monday about finding a young boy and his grandfather shot in the head outside a Jewish community center, one of many witnesses who testified against the white supremacist who is charged with killing three people in a Kansas City suburb last April. As many as 22 witnesses were on…
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News What’s Behind Bill de Blasio’s Concern For European Jews?
Bill de Blasio seems to be spending a lot of time worrying about Jews in Europe. The New York City mayor has visited two different Upper East Side synagogues in the past month to deliver addresses about attacks on French Jews. He went to Paris for less than 24 hours in January to lay wreaths…
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News Fidel Castro Speaks Out About Freedom, Hope And Gary Shteyngart
This exclusive interview took place the morning of February 3 at the gracious hacienda of Fidel Castro just outside Havana, overlooking the ocean. The idea was initiated by Castro through a signed letter hand-delivered to the offices of the Backward by an officer of the Cuban army. “In the spirit of friendship and brotherhood, I…
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Culture What We’re Not Naming Our Kids
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Fast Forward UCLA Student Quizzed About Jewishness in Judicial Board Interview
A member of UCLA’s student government was asked in a hearing whether her Jewish identity presents a conflict of interest. During a Feb. 10 hearing, four student government members at the University of California Los Angeles questioned Rachel Beyda’s ability to make unbiased decisions on cases in which the Jewish community had a vested interest…
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Fast Forward Tom Schweich, Suicidal Candidate, Got $200K From Republican Jewish Donor Sam Fox
The Missouri politician who committed suicide amid rumors that he was Jewish received at least $200,000 in political contributions in the past two years from a leading Jewish Republican donor. Tom Schweich, Missouri’s Republican state auditor and gubernatorial candidate, died in an apparent suicide at his home on Thursday. Schweich had arranged a meeting with…
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The Schmooze My Memories of Leonard Nimoy, Yiddish-Speaking Vulcan
I first met Leonard Nimoy — a.k.a. Spock from the hit TV series “Star Trek,” who died today at 83 on February 27, 2015 — when as a celebrity at the 1973 American Booksellers Convention in Anaheim, California. He stopped by my publishing company’s exhibit booth. A distant Litvak cousin of my mother’s from Grodno…
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News Missouri Republican Tom Schweich Commits Suicide Amid Jewish Ancestry ‘Whisper Campaign’
Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich, a Republican candidate for governor, died on Thursday in an apparent suicide after he went public with allegations that rivals in the GOP planned to mount an anti-Semitic ‘whisper campaign” about his Jewish heritage. The suicide came minutes after he called the Associated Press to accuse John Hancock, the head…
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