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News Jewish Veterans’ Stories Spotlighted in New Exhibit
(JTA) — Mementos of Jacob Goldstein slide across the 3-foot-by-4-foot horizontal screen: his photograph, his name, an Operation Urgent Fury headline denoting the 1983 military campaign in Grenada, Goldstein’s explanatory text summarizing his role during the invasion. Even more striking than the photograph showing the uniformed rabbi wrapping tefillin on the Grenada beach with his…
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The Schmooze Nicki Minaj Is Sorry About ‘Nazi’ Video — Sort Of
It’s ok guys, we can all relax. Nicki Minaj is really sorry about all the overt Nazi imagery in her new music video. In fact, she’s not responsible at all. Turns out the people behind the madness were all Jewish. Well, in that case… The artist who made the lyric video for “Only” was influenced…
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The Schmooze Another Day, Another Jewish Trump Wedding
Getty Images First Ivanka, now Eric. The MOT-Trump circle has just gained another member. The Donald’s 30-year-old son married Jewish TV producer Lara Yunaska on Saturday in front of 450 people. The ceremony, held at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, also featured a “crystal-embellished” chuppah. Because, you know, Trump. The bride, who reportedly broke both…
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Fast Forward Maryland School District May Scrap Jewish Holidays Amid Muslim Push
The superintendent of a Maryland school district has recommended removing Jewish holidays from the school calendar. Schools in Montgomery County would still close on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, according to Superintendent Joshua Starr’s recommendation. The issue behind the recommendation is that the schools are closed for Jewish holidays and not Muslim holidays, NBC Washington…
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Culture How Colonel Jennifer Pritzker Pushes for Transgender Rights in Military
Colonel Jennifer Natalya Pritzker is not much for the spotlight. Like the rest of her family, the massively wealthy Chicago-based real estate scions, she rarely gives interviews. But the 63-year-old, whose official title is Colonel (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker IL ARNG (Ret), doesn’t have to say much for her mission to be clear. With an…
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News Muslim and Jewish Feminists Mingle Uneasily in the City Of Sisterly Love
Brenda Naomi Rosenberg had had it with denunciations of Israel, and she told her Muslim dialogue partner so, right to her face. “Israel has the responsibility to defend itself from Hamas rockets!” she exclaimed. But Samia Moustapha Bahsoun, a Muslim of Lebanese descent who was raised in Senegal, had had it with that talking point….
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News Jan Karski’s Relatives Angry at ‘Snub’ by Polish Jewish Museum
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. At the core exhibition of the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which celebrated its official inauguration two weeks ago, there is a special corner devoted to Jan Karski, the officer of the Polish underground who was one of the first to alert the Western…
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The Schmooze Bob Geldof Re-Booting ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ For Ebola
Getty Images Musician and philanthropist Bob Geldof, who in 1984 inspired a generation of rock stars to record a charity single for Africa, will raise money to combat Ebola with a new version of the song. Geldof, frontman for Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats, pulled together the Band Aid supergroup for “Do They…
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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.