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The Schmooze Is Nicki Minaj’s New Video Nazi-Themed?
Is it me, or has there been an unusual amount of inappropriate Nazi-themed pop culture lately? Fans of Nicki Minaj are calling for the singer to take down her controversial new video, “Only You,” featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. With hoards of SS-style troops goose-stepping in an ominously drab fascist landscape while sporting…
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News In Ebola Fight, Jewish Groups Help Caregivers Cope With Psychosocial Trauma
(JTA) — Even amid the unceasing horrors of Sierra Leone’s Ebola epidemic, it was a case that stood out. A 5-year-old boy had been found in his home in a remote village, the lone survivor in a house riddled with the corpses of family members. He needed to be extracted; the bodies needed to be…
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Forward 50 2014 Lizzy Caplan
Before she was a “Master of Sex,” Lizzy Caplan was a Russian dancer in her elementary school’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” The actress, who was nominated for an Emmy Award this year for her performance as sex research pioneer Virginia Johnson in Showtime’s “Masters of Sex,” has come a long way since her…
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Forward 50 2014 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
After some two decades of planning, the doors have finally opened on the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The museum, according to the Forward’s A.J. Goldmann, will be “one of the most significant Jewish cultural projects in contemporary Europe” as it seeks to “tell the story of the Jewish people’s 1,000-year…
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Culture Could This Be Year of the Jewish Woman?
Never in the 20 years that the Forward has published its list of the 50 American Jews who have had the most impact on our national story has the number of women been this high — 26 in all, including four of the top five. Even we were surprised at the final tally. While women…
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Fast Forward Europe Jews Come to U.S. To Learn Security Best Practices
European Jewish institutions increasingly find themselves potential terror targets. But attempts to ramp up security at synagogues, day schools, museums and community centers from Paris to Copenhagen have been stymied both by a lingering distrust of the police among some communities and by law enforcement’s reluctance to single out any ethnic minority for special treatment…
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News ‘Shadow Jews’ Outnumber Recognized Members of Tribe
(Haaretz) — The number of people who believe they are descendants of the Jews or the ancient Israelites about equals the number of known Jews, those who are counted in official international censuses, an expert on Judaizing movements says. Speaking at a Jerusalem conference, the British historian Tudor Parfitt suggested that what he called a…
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News Rabbi Hailu Moshe Paris, Revered Leader of America’s Black Jews, Dies at 81
On Sunday night, Rabbi Hailu Moshe Paris, who had been at Manhattan’s Beth Israel Medical Center for three weeks, was blinking and smiling at the small group of Jews gathered around his bed. He could not speak, he wore an oxygen mask and was attached to an IV, but he nodded slightly as the group…
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