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Fast Forward Seattle Jewish Group Calls For NRA Lobbyist To Quit Over Holocaust Quip
Jewish leaders in Washington state called on Tuesday for the resignation of a National Rifle Association lobbyist over comments in which he compared the push for stricter gun control regulations to the policies of Nazi Germany. Brian Judy, an NRA senior state lobbyist based in California, made the remark while addressing opponents of a proposed…
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Fast Forward Hamas Reportedly Executes 30 Palestinians Accused of Collaborating With Israel
Hamas has executed more than 30 Gazan Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel, according to Palestinian news sources. Hamas reportedly captured dozens of suspected collaborators in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City last week during battles with Israeli soldiers. The accused collaborators were executed after a short investigation, the Times of Israel reported, citing a…
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The Schmooze ‘The Passenger’: Holocaust On And Below Deck
Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1968 opera “The Passenger,” which Lincoln Center Festival and Park Avenue Armory co-presented at the Armory, offered a soupcon of “Titanic” vibes with its 1960’s Brazil-bound ocean liner’s huge white funnel and its first class carefree passengers — elegant in all-white suits and gowns — waltzing to an orchestra’s calming beat. Among the dancers, Walter…
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Fast Forward Pro-Peace Group Attacked as ‘Filthy Jew Traitors’
A Jewish group dedicated to promoting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and which is deeply critical of Israeli policy, received an obscene, anti-Semitic voicemail on Saturday that attacked its members as “filthy Jew traitors.” The 44-second voicemail left for LA Jews for Peace expresses hope that its members “all become victims [of] Palestinian and Islamic…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Get 94% of Homeland Security Grants
The Department of Homeland Security allocated to Jewish institutions $12 million, or 94 percent, of $13 million in funds for securing nonprofits. The Jewish Federations of North America’s Washington office director, William Daroff, said Tuesday that the allocation made sense particularly in light of an intensification of threats on Jewish community targets in the United…
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Life Let’s Talk About ‘Sects’
Facebook Brenda Rosenberg, who goes by the online moniker “Brenda Turtle,” is a social media celebrity with thousands of followers. She posts photos of herself in suggestive poses, often repurposing religious paraphernalia like tefillin (phylacteries) or a tallis (prayer shawl) for the added shock value, since no Hasidic and few Orthodox women utilize those items….
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Life Meet Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto’s Gay, Right Wing Columnist
Photo by Michael Peake/Toronto Sun Sue-Ann Levy doesn’t sound like the devil, which a 2012 headline in a Toronto publication, The Grid, suggested she might be. In fact, the woman who picked up the phone to chat with the Forward’s Michael Kaminer has a sweet, chirpy voice and an endearingly cheery manner. But these qualities…
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The Schmooze Javier Bardem Anti-Israel Letter Backed by Celebs
Getty Images A letter accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza was endorsed by 100 Spanish celebrities including Academy Award winners Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar. On Monday the renowned actors, writers and directors endorsed a letter that Spanish actor Javier Bardem published last week in the Barcelona-based El Periodico de Catalunya, the daily reported. “This…
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