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Fast Forward Joint Distribution Committee Gives 10 Fishing Boats to Filipino Victims of Typhoon Haiyan
A Jewish American charity donated 10 boats to Filipino fishermen who lost their livelihood during a typhoon. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, delivered the boats to the villagers of Lat-Asan, located in one of the regions hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan — a storm that devastated large areas in the Philippines last…
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Opinion What Did You Expect?
What did you expect? Did you think that terrorists wouldn’t attack three teenagers hitchhiking on a Palestinian road? Did you think that the Palestinian population isn’t angry enough to create extremist fringes like this? Did you really think that a continued occupation and no hope for independence would not breed some percentage of hard-core, terrorist…
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Culture The True Story of Maine’s Potato King — My Great-Grandfather’s Rise and Fall
My grandmother grew up in a big house on a hill in Fort Kent, Maine, a few hundred yards from the Canadian border. The house had a porch and a turret and, in the bathroom, a Jewish ritual bath. My grandmother’s mother was a religious fanatic. Her father, Jake Etscovitz, was the Potato King. Though…
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Fast Forward Rachel Fraenkel, Mother of Kidnapped Teen, Denounces Revenge Killing
Rachel Fraenkel denounced the revenge killing of a Palestinian teen and offered condolences to the family. Fraenkel made a public statement Monday outside her home in Nof Ayalon at the end of the shiva period for her son Naftali, one of three Israeli teenagers kidnapped and killed last month. “Even in the abyss of mourning…
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News Israel Will Escalate Gaza Strikes as Rocket Attacks Increase
The Israeli government is planning to escalate its attacks on Hamas and other terrorist groups slamming southern Israel with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The security Cabinet decided at a three-hour meeting on Monday to steadily increase Israel’s military retaliation, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces said it was calling up some 1,500…
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Books Joan Rivers Storms Out of CNN Interview
Apparently all that plastic surgery didn’t give Joan Rivers a thick skin. On July 5, Joan Rivers made headlines after she stormed out of a CNN interview claiming the anchor, Fredricka Whitfield, was asking increasingly “negative questions.” Rivers, known for her (sometimes) off-color jokes has picked on everyone from Paula Deen to the Jennifer Lawrence….
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The Schmooze Why Is Tom Hanks Singing ‘This is How We Do It’ Dressed Like a Rabbi?
Presented for your humble viewing: A video of Tom Hanks, dressed as a rabbi, singing “This Is How We Do It,” courtesy of Justin Bieber. Caption: “Haha Tom Hanks singing “This Is How we do it” dressed like a Rabbi lol #thatdancetho” SO MANY questions: Why is Tom Hanks dressed like a rabbi? Why is…
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News When Hitler Honored Jewish Soldiers
(Haaretz) — On June 15, 1935, two years after the Nazis’ rise to power, Hermann Bendheim was invited to the German Consulate in Jerusalem. The representatives of the Third Reich in Palestine awarded him a badge of honor for his service in the German army in World War I. Two years earlier, Bendheim had been dismissed…
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