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Life Maya Angelou, My Sister and Me
Getty Images “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot — it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that, I try to make sure my experiences are positive.” — Maya Angelou My first experience of Maya Angelou, who died this week at the…
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Fast Forward MSNBC Host Toure Sorry For Tweet About Holocaust Survivors
MSNBC host Toure Neblett apologized for a tweet in which he suggested that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust succeeded because they are white. “Late last week, I foolishly got involved in a twitter exchange regarding an article about reparations,” Toure tweeted on Tuesday afternoon in a series of three tweets. “It was a dumb idea…
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Opinion Help Us Find The Do-ers
Tikkun Olam. Repair the world. If you’re anything like me, the mere mention of the phrase is enough to make you cringe. Not because we don’t want to do our part for a better world. But for many in my generation, brought up with the idea that you wouldn’t get into college or get a…
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Life Susan Reimer-Torn on Coming Back To Jewish Life
Joan Roth In her new memoir “Maybe Not Such a Good Girl: Reflections on Rupture and Return,” Susan Reimer-Torn chronicles her return to Jewish life in New York after years of living as a formerly-Orthodox woman in France. Elissa Strauss spoke with Reimer-Torn about freedom, healing and what the current generation of formerly-religious writers like…
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Fast Forward Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews
A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion. Approximately 10 Jewish families live in San Juan La Laguna, in the state of Solola, in a population of under 10,000, according to the Guatemalan daily newspaper Prensa Libre. Misael Santos, a Guatemalan convert to…
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Opinion 6 Jewish Memories of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, who has died at 86, was a celebrated poet, author, and chronicler of the African-American experience. Angelou also had several memorable interactions with the Jewish community. Here are six Jewish memories of Maya: 1) Poignant Poetry In one of his final acts in office, President Bill Clinton appointed Angelou to the board of…
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The Schmooze Maya Angelou and Me
I first met Maya Angelou, who died on Wednesday May 27, in June, 1990 at the American Booksellers Convention at a press conference held at Washington’s Shoreham Hotel at which the towering Angelou got a roaring standing ovation from the press corp. The former dancer and actor, author, civil rights activist, poet and academic charmed,…
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Fast Forward California Jewish Lawmakers Lead New Gun Push After Santa Barbara Rampage
California Democrats on Tuesday proposed a series of measures aimed at preventing mass killings such as the rampage at a local university that left six students and the assailant dead. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat, proposed improved training for police on mental health warnings after a check on the suspect in Friday’s…
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