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The Schmooze Mayim Bialik’s Sushi Hamantaschen
Much has been written on how to improve hamantaschen: add some booze, avoid prune filling (we can all agree on this one, I think), drizzle with chocolate, and so on and so on. But Mayim Bialik topped every single one of those with her version of “nouveau” Purim cooking: Yum? Yuck? Let us know in…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Youths Throw Stones at Israeli Police on Temple Mount
Israeli police were pelted with stones at the Temple Mount for the third time in two months. Palestinian youth threw the stones Sunday morning near the Mughrabi Gate, where non-Muslims enter the holy site, according to the Times of Israel. No policemen were injured. The incident follows two riots in February at the Mughrabi Gate….
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Fast Forward Quebec Premier Defends Minister Accused of Anti-Semitic Propaganda
The premier of Quebec is defending a candidate in next month’s election who is accused of spreading anti-Semitic propaganda. At a news conference in Montreal today, Premier Pauline Marois said she stands by Parti Quebecois candidate Louise Mailloux, and said her party is not anti-Semitic. In previous writings, Mailloux, who teaches philosophy at a Montreal…
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News How Hungarian Sisters Outwitted the Nazis To Create Haven for Jews
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the German occupation of Budapest, which began on March 19, 1944. In 2006, my husband and I went to Budapest to see as much as possible that related to Jewish life during that horrendous time. Sixty-two years had passed since my second cousins, Eva and Alice Eismann, had…
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Life My Fast of Esther
Getty Images When my nana, Claire Laufer Daniels, was 17-years old, the Nazis marched into her hometown of Vienna and were welcomed with open arms. Seemingly overnight, her friends turned on her, she was forbidden from attending school and she was even forced to scrub the city’s sidewalks with guns pointed at her head. Thankfully,…
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Fast Forward 2 Atlanta Jewish Schools Agree To Merge
Two Jewish day schools in Atlanta, Greenfield Hebrew Academy and Yeshiva Atlanta, are merging. The Katherine and Jacob Greenfield Hebrew Academy is an independent pre-K-through-8th grade community day school founded in 1953. Yeshiva Atlanta is a modern Orthodox high school founded in 1971. The new entity is being billed as a college preparatory day school…
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Life Women Read the Megillah
A staging of King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther in an 1865 photo by Julia Margaret Cameron // Wikimedia Commons From Haifa to Dimona, women are gathering to unfurl the Megillah and let Queen Esther’s voice come through. The feeling, for me and every woman who participates, is that a woman’s reading brings the Megillah alive…
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Life Standing Up for Agunot
Martyna Starosta Shira Dicker protests the plight of chained women, or agunot, whose husbands refuse to grant them religious divorces, during a small Times Square gathering on International Agunah Day.
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