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Fast Forward Los Angeles Jewish Cemetery Pays $80M to Settle Body-Dumping Suit
A Los Angeles Jewish cemetery accused of dumping remains to make room for new interments has settled a 25,000-person class action lawsuit. Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, Calif., agreed to a settlement worth about $80.5 million, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported, citing documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 27. The…
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News Lifeline for American Soldiers Is Made in Israel
In her work with Israeli military veterans and victims of trauma, Sigal Haimov asks a lot of sensitive questions. But over a lengthy career as a mental health professional, she’s found that it’s one of the easiest questions to ask that’s trickiest for Americans to answer genuinely: “How are you doing?” “You” — that is,…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Chief Rabbi Accuses Russia of Anti-Semitic ‘Provocations’ in Crimea
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, accused Russia of staging anti-Semitic “provocations” in Crimea in order to justify its invasion of the former Soviet republic. At a press conference in the Manhattan office of the United Jewish Communities of Eastern Europe, Bleich compared Russia’s behavior to that of the Nazis prior to…
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The Schmooze Scarlett Johansson Pregnant With First Child
Mazel tov, ScarJo! Scarlett Johansson, the Jewish actress and SodaStream spokeswoman, is pregnant with her first child with fiancee Romain Dauriac, a source confirmed to E! News. The pair were spotted at the 39th Cesar Film Awards 2014 in Paris on Friday (no baby bump yet!) Johansson went public about her relationship with the French…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Jewish Mogul Named Governor in Shuffle
Ukrainian Jewish business mogul Igor Kolomoisky was appointed governor of the Dnipropetrovsk District, in Ukraine’s industrial heart. President Oleksandr Turchynov announced the nomination Sunday, as part of reshuffle that saw 16 district heads replaced, the news site Gazeta.ua reported. Turchynov also appointed a member of the far-right Svoboda party, Sidor Kizin, as governor of the…
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Fast Forward French Jew Badly Beaten in Paris Subway Train
Four unidentified Arab men savagely beat a French Jew in a Paris Metro train, a watchdog organization reported. The attack happened Sunday as the train was traveling from Nogent Sur Marne to Gare de Lyon, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. Two of the attackers held down the 28-year-old victim,…
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Fast Forward Obama Assures Netanyahu Of Commitment To Preventing Nuclear-Armed Iran
President Barack Obama assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Washington remains committed to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and also called on Israel and the Palestinians to compromise to reach a U.S.-brokered peace framework. In a meeting at the White House, Netanyahu told Obama that no country has a greater stake…
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The Schmooze Jewish Museum’s Purim Ball: A Rap and Twitter Spiel
“It’s hard to imagine that we sold out The Armory!” beamed Claudia Gould Director of the Jewish Museum at its February 26 Purim Ball which raised a record $2.5 million. More than 1,000 festive donors dined on a fabulous meal beneath a ceiling installation of 3,000 T-shirts with such imprints as: “I Love Esther” and…
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Yiddish רבנישע כּתבֿים ווײַזן אומגעריכטע פֿאַרבינדונגען צווישן ייִדיש און לאַדינאָRabbinical texts reveal surprising links between Yiddish and Ladino
לויט אַ נײַ בוך פֿאָרשונגען האָבן טראַדיציאָנאַליסטן אין ביידע עדות געהאַלטן, אַז ייִדן מוזן אָפּהיטן זייער גערעדט לשון
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Opinion Why Poland’s president canceled his menorah lighting — and how the West helped make that happen
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Fast Forward 4 House Democrats introduce bill that would enact progressive vision for fighting antisemitism
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Yiddish אַ ייִדיש־רעדנדיק קינד דאַרף אַ „שטעטל“׃ ווי עלטערן קומען זיי אַנטקעגןIt takes a village to raise a child in Yiddish: How parents are doing it
מחוץ די חסידישע קרײַזן האָבן געוויסע עלטערן געשאַפֿן זייערע אייגענע ייִדיש־סבֿיבֿות
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