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Fast Forward Arab Man and Jewish-Born Bride Hire Security Guards For Wedding in Israel
An Arab man and his Jewish-born bride hired 14 security guards for their wedding celebration in Israel in response to an anti-intermarriage Jewish group’s call for a protest rally at the hall. Mahmoud Mansour, who is Muslim, and Morel Malka, who recently converted to Islam, reportedly are concerned for their safety at Sunday’s event in…
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Fast Forward South African Union Leader Calls For ‘Eye For An Eye’ Attack Against Jewish Officials
A South African union leader called for “eye for an eye” attacks on Jewish communal officials in retribution for civilian deaths in Gaza. In a Facebook post Wednesday, Tony Ehrenreich, a trade union official and the 2011 Cape Town mayoral candidate for the African National Congress party, condemned the “killings and maimings that have been…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Will Not Cooperate With U.N. War Crimes Investigation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated he will not cooperate with a United Nations commission investigating Israel’s conduct during its war in Gaza. Most ministers in the government also oppose any dealings with the U.N. team, the Times of Israel reported. In a video posted on his official Facebook page, Netanyahu criticized the U.N. Human…
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Fast Forward Israelis and Palestinians Agree To Extend Cease-Fire 5 More Days
Israel and Palestinian factions agreed on Wednesday to extend a three-day Gaza truce by an additional 72 hours, a Palestinian official with knowledge of the negotiations in Cairo told Reuters. “Factions agreed to extend the 72-hour truce for an extended period of three days,” the official said, the sides reaching a deal within minutes of…
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Fast Forward McCarthy-Era Prisoner Asks Judge to Overturn Espionage Conviction
More than half a century after a jury implicated Miriam Moskowitz in the Cold War atomic espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the 98-year-old retired New Jersey math teacher is asking a federal judge to throw out her 1950 conviction, the New York Daily News reported. One of the last living links to the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Professor Mordechai Kedar Will Continue With U.S. Speaking Tour
Israeli scholar and law professor Mordechai Kedar, who made headlines recently for his comments about rape as a way to combat Hamas terrorism, says that the backlash to this controversy has done little, if anything, to affect his academic speaking tour through North American university campuses, which is scheduled for this upcoming winter. Last month,…
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The Schmooze Lauren Bacall Remembered — On And Off Screen
Actress Lauren Bacall, who died on August 13 at 89, was an early presence in my life. As a pre-teen in 1944 Montreal I saw Bacall (nee Betty Perske) in “To Have and To Hold” never dreaming that she would one day grace my columns in The Forward! My classmates at the Workmen’s Circle School…
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Culture Searching for My Birth Mother’s Jewish Heritage
Growing up in a Modern Orthodox family in Miami Beach in the 1960s was like being raised in a Technicolor Anatevka. Shabbats and Jewish holidays dictated the rhythm of life for the community. I spent endless hours in synagogues davening or pretending to, and half of each school day focused on Jewish studies. Firsthand accounts…
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