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The Schmooze Joan Rivers Remembers Jewish Groups in Will
Getty Images Comedian Joan Rivers’ will left money to several charitable organizations to which she was connected. Among the Jewish organizations which received bequests were the Jewish Guild for the Blind, Jewish Home and Hospital Foundation, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. The amount received by each organization is unknown, since they will…
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Opinion No, Judaism Doesn’t Justify CIA Torture
Christian art depicting Jews being tortured in hell Are the Jews somehow to blame for the CIA’s torture of detainees? That’s what some want to know after yesterday’s release of the so-called “CIA Torture Report” by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA is in the business of extracting secrets and then burying them deep in…
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Fast Forward Five Arrested For Threats to Attack French Synagogue
French police arrested five men suspected of making threats online to attack a synagogue. Two of the suspects, all of whom are believed to be far-right activists, were arrested on Tuesday morning in the southern city of Montpellier, the French news agency AFP reported. The remaining three were apprehended in the nearby city of Beziers….
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The Schmooze Einstein to Marie Curie: ‘Ignore the Trolls’
Getty Images Trolls are the worst. Even Einstein said so. A new trove of Albert Einstein letters put online this week has revealed a piece of correspondence in which the physicist gives some friendly advice to contemporary icon Marie Curie. The gist? Haters gonna hate. (The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein) Despite a Nobel Prize…
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News Untold Story of the First Jewish Lynching in America
Late one summer’s night in Tennessee, in 1868, Samuel Bierfield sat in the back of a dry goods store with his black clerk Lawrence Bowman and another black man, Henry Morton. Fists pounded on the back door. A voice demanded that Bierfield open up. Bierfield shouted for the visitors to go around the front, unless…
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Fast Forward Suspects Arrested in Torching of Joint Arab-Jewish School
Several suspects were arrested in the suspected arson attack on a joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem. The suspects were arrested a week ago, shortly after a fire was set in the classroom of the Max Rayne Hand In Hand Jerusalem School. On Sunday, the Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court lifted a media gag order on the…
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Opinion Eric Garner and Moshe Twersky Bound by History
Getty Images As I sit at my desk in a modern office building in lower Manhattan, the chants of angry protestors below grow louder. “I — can’t — breathe,” they shout, echoing the haunting final words of Eric Garner, whose death by asphyxiation I saw on video the day it occurred. It was in that…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Man Indicted For Attempted Lynching of Jewish Motorist
An Arab-Israeli man was indicted for the attempted lynching of a Jewish man who drove past the village of Taibe. Muhammed Haj-Yihyeh, 21, was indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated assault, vandalism, and mayhem for the Nov. 9 incident in which the Jewish driver attempted to avoid burning tires on a major highway during Arab…
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Yiddish אַ רעפֿעראַט אויף ייִדיש אין מינכן פֿונעם ליטעראַטור־פֿאָרשער נתן כּהן A Yiddish lecture in Munich by literature scholar Nathan Cohen
די „שלום־עליכם לעקציע“ וועט מען קענען הערן אויפֿן אָרט אָדער דורך דער אינטערנעץ.
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Jewish leaders call on Israeli ambassador to apologize for attack on J Street
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Culture Despite what (Ashkenazi) tradition says, not everyone eats dairy on Shavuot