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The Schmooze Cutest Maccabeat Goes Solo
Noah ‘Noey’ Jacobson, 24, part owner and member of The Maccabeats, launched his solo career yesterday when he posted a medley covering Clean Bandits Rather Be and Nico & Vinz’s hit single “Am I Wrong.” “I’ve been singing with the Maccabeats for five years,” he said. “At some point I said to myself, ‘I’m happiest…
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News Ashkenazi Jews Descend From 350 People, Scientists Say
Exploring Ashkenazi Jews And Their Origins
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The Schmooze Of Frat Bros and Bagels
Wikimedia Commons Some people fight with their fists. Some use their words. And others, like these bros from Oxford, Ohio’s Miami University Phi Tau fraternity, use a bag of bagels. According to the Daily Dot, 6 of Phi Tau’s most upstanding gentlemen were in the middle of allegedly breaking into the house of campus rivals…
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Fast Forward Memorial Planned in Warsaw Honoring Poles Who Saved Jews During Shoah
Organizers have announced a design competition for a memorial in Warsaw to Poles who saved Jews during World War II. Polish-born Holocaust survivor and philanthropist Sigmund Rolat, of the Remembrance and Future Foundation, announced the competition at a news conference in Warsaw on Monday. Rolat said the designs would be judged by an international jury…
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The Schmooze Mazel Tov, Fran Drescher!
Getty Images The Nanny is married — to the man who created email. Fran Drescher, who now stars in TV Land’s “Happily Divorced,” wed Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai at their home on the beach, People Magazine reported. The bride wore Badgely Mischka, the groom wore Ralph Lauren. According to People, the ceremony was small, with only family…
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Opinion 4 Ways Jews Are Thriving in France
People stand outside the ‘As du Fallafel’ shop in the Marais district in Paris / Getty Images The news from France is bleak: anti-Semitic sentiment is on the rise, violent incidents are piling up, and Jews are packing up and leaving for Israel. Recently, I learned that one of my cousins, tired of feeling marginalized,…
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Fast Forward Yale Chaplain Resigns Over New York Times Letter Blaming Anti-Semitism on Israel
The Rev. Bruce Shipman, an Episcopal chaplain at Yale University, resigned in the wake of his letter to The New York Times that blamed rising anti-Semitism in Europe on Israel. The Episcopal Church at Yale issued a statement on Sept. 4 announcing that Shipman, “on his own initiative, had resigned as Priest-in-Charge of the Episcopal…
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Opinion French Jews, Escaping to Israel Is Not the Answer
Jewish and Muslim demonstrators advocate peace at a rally in Paris / Getty Images Is it the spike in anti-Semitic acts or rather their growing banality that drives Jews in Paris, Lyon and Marseille to seriously consider emigration? Maybe both. Caught between the rise of far-right movements like the Front National and the tide of…
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Opinion It’s time for Jews who love Israel to give up on Zionism
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Fast Forward Jane Yolen, children’s book author whose ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ became a Holocaust classic, dies at 87
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Fast Forward 6 months after her father was killed at Bondi Beach, Sheina Gutnick has become a leading antisemitism advocate in Australia