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Fast Forward Texas Hopes To Yank Marriage License for Lesbian Couple
The Texas attorney general asked the state’s Supreme Court on Friday to revoke a marriage license issued a day earlier to two women, arguing the move violated a decade-old state ban against gay marriage and could cause legal chaos. Travis County, where the capital Austin is located, issued a marriage license to Sarah Goodfriend and…
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Fast Forward Small France Town Seeks To Lure Paris Jews
The leader of a small Jewish community in central France is advertising his city as an alternative for Parisian coreligionists contemplating emigrating to Israel due to anti-Semitism. Charley Daian, the president of the Consistoire of the Jewish community of Limoges, which has only 80 Jewish families, made the plea earlier this week in an ad…
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Opinion It’s Time for Black Jews To Lead
The #BlackLivesMatter movement has reverberated throughout the country, as protesters from Ferguson, Missouri, to New York have taken bold action to assert the rights, dignity and full humanity of Americans who have been systematically targeted for abusive policing: communities of color still lit by the brutal afterglow of centuries of legal discrimination and violence. The…
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Opinion 7 Axioms of the Copenhagen Terror Attacks
The news of the attacks on the Copenhagen cafe and synagogue did not surprise us. We may keep hoping this will stop, but the rational parts of our brains know that it will not, at least not for the long term. There have been enough of these attacks that we can now see there are…
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The Schmooze Would You Let Your Jewish Grandpa on Tinder?
You’ve heard about Jewish moms hijacking their kids’ JDate accounts — but what about grandfathers taking one for the team on Tinder? Jewish Youtuber Ethan Cole wasn’t having much luck with the ladies. So he asked his 89-year-old zayde, Joe, for help. The plan? The pair would create a Tinder profile using a somewhat outdated…
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Fast Forward Scandinavia’s ‘Soft’ Approach to Islamic Radicals Questioned After Copenhagen Terror
(Reuters) — Known for a soft approach to security that emphasizes helping radical Muslim youths with housing and jobs, Denmark may face pressure after the Copenhagen attacks to prioritize tougher laws and more resources for the police. The weekend’s deadly shootings at a cafe and synagogue came at a time when the Nordic countries, worried…
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Opinion It’s Tough To Walk Around Paris as a Jew — Or Is It?
An Israeli journalist who walked around Paris for hours while wearing a kippah to test attitudes to Jews documented multiple threats and insults hurled at his direction. Zvika Klein, a reporter for the news site nrg.co.il and the Makor Rishon daily, on Sunday released the footage from his excursion last week around Paris and its…
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Fast Forward Denmark Police Thought Terror Gunman Posed ‘No Threat’
(Reuters) — Danish authorities had a Copenhagen gunman in their sights even before his attacks on Saturday but did not consider him a threat, police said on Tuesday, even as reports emerged that he had served time in prison with a Muslim radical. The gunman, reported in Danish media to be Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein,…
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Film & TV Judd Apatow on why Mel Brooks’ influence ‘will last as long as our jokes’
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Opinion I was in a high school production of ‘Anne Frank’ — today in Minnesota, I feel her fear more than ever
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