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Fast Forward FEGS, Massive Jewish Social Service Agency, Shutting Down
The massive Jewish social service agency FEGS is shutting down, Crain’s New York Business reported on Friday. The Forward reported December 12 that the agency had discovered it lost $19.4 million in its last fiscal year. FEGS had an annual budget of $252 million, and claimed to aid over a hundred thousand New Yorkers per…
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The Schmooze ‘Censored Voices’ of ’67 War Speak Out at Sundance
Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival (JTA) – In the wake of Israel’s seemingly miraculous triumph in the Six-Day War in 1967, the country’s victorious soldiers were lionized as heroes. But in private, even just one week after the conflict, many of them didn’t feel that way. One describes feeling sick to his stomach in battle…
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Fast Forward Polish Strength Athletes Partner With Group Moving Jewish Tombstones
A Polish federation of strength athletes announced its partnership with an organization whose work includes moving and preserving Jewish headstones. The cooperation between the From the Depths commemoration group and the Polish Strongman Federation began last year, when two of the sport club’s athletes helped move two headstones from the garden of a resident of…
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Fast Forward UC Davis Jewish Frat Targeted With Swastika Graffitii After Divestment Resolution Passes
Members of a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis awoke to find swastikas painted on their building two days after the student senate passed a divestment resolution targeting Israel. The non-binding advisory resolution, which was passed Jan. 29 by the Associated Students of UC Davis by a vote of 8 to 2 with two abstentions, calls…
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Fast Forward Brandeis University President To Step Down At The End of Academic Year
Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence will step down from his position effective at the end of the current academic year. Lawrence, who made the announcement on Friday, is one of the country’s leading experts in civil rights and the eighth president of Brandeis University. He currently is serving his fifth academic year as president. Brandeis,…
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Opinion Why Megachurch Concept of Sin Is So Dangerous
Last week, I waxed rhapsodic about what the Jewish community could learn from megachurches. As communal institutions, they are far more spiritually-focused, inspiring, diverse, well-managed, and accessible than all but the best synagogues. They meet a demonstrated, expressed need for spiritual meaning and connection, and they deliver the goods in a carefully thought out way….
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News Let’s Talk About Ukraine
Despite rising death tolls, no one seems to care about Ukraine anymore. In her graphic essay, Anya Ulinich remembers her childhood trips to Donetsk and reflects on the war’s impact on her family. Click to expand.
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Fast Forward Carl Djerassi, Who Helped Discover Birth Control Pill, Dies at 91
Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-born chemist who helped to develop the birth control pill before becoming a playwright and novelist, died in San Francisco on Friday at the age of 91, his family said. Djerassi, professor emeritus at Stanford University, was the leader of a team of researchers in Mexico City who synthesized a derivative of…
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