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The Schmooze Macklemore Dresses Up as Stereotypical Jew
Really, Macklemore? A big Jewish nose? Subtle. On Friday night, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performed a secret show in their hometown of Seattle in honor of a new exhibit at the city’s EMP Museum. As Gawker points out, this would not have been news if it had not been for Macklemore singing “Thrift Shop” while…
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Fast Forward 74% of French Jews Consider Leaving Country
Nearly 75 percent of thousands of French Jews who participated in a recent survey said they are considering emigrating. The survey, whose results were released Monday by the Paris-based Siona organization of Sephardic French Jews, encompassed 3,833 respondents from the Jewish community of France, Siona said. Of the 74.2 percent of respondents who said they…
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Fast Forward Knesset Bill Would Allow Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount
Two MKs from Likud and Labor have collaborated to propose a law that would allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Written by Likud MK Miri Regev and Labor MK Hilik Bar, the law would reverse the current ban on Jewish prayer on the mount, considered Judaism’s holiest site. The current ban was instituted…
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News 13 Years Later, Jewish Children of 9/11 Come of Age
Next February, Jamie Pila, a hockey-playing middle school student with a mane of curly brown hair, will step up to the bimah at Temple Har Shalom in Warren, N.J. and become a bat mitzvah in front of her mother, sister, stepfather and two stepsiblings. Missing will be the biological father she never met. Her namesake,…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Jews Celebrate Lag B’Omer in Odessa Under Tight Security
Hundreds of Odessa Jews celebrated Lag b’Omer under guard in the city’s first large Jewish gathering since deadly riots there two weeks ago. The participants gathered near the city’s Chabad Jewish school on Saturday evening for a bonfire accompanied by song and dances while a dozen guards secured the perimeter, according to Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein,…
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Fast Forward At the Height of World War II, Dutch Jews Found an Unlikely Refuge
(JTA) – In her nightmares, Tilly Walvis pictured German soldiers storming the house where she was hiding and deporting her children and the Christian couple sheltering them. Walvis had good reason to fear. At the time, her family was living in the home of Albert and Frederika Santing in Hoensbroek, a Dutch town in the…
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The Schmooze My Kutsher’s Memories
From the 1970s to my [last] stay at Kutsher’s in 1997, I remember it as a heymish Shangri-La — starting with the check-in welcome by owner Helen Kutsher. A post-breakfast line-dance workout, then – trying to avoid the droppings of the resident Canadian geese on the lawn — a solo rowing session in a boat…
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Fast Forward Israel Sending Aid to Serbia and Bosnia Flood Victims
Israel is sending aid to help rescue efforts in Serbia and Bosnia, where record floods have submerged cities and left more than two dozen dead and thousands homeless. Local media reported that Israel sent a first shipment of emergency aid this weekend including medicine, food, blankets and rain gear, and will soon send pumps. The…
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