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Fast Forward The First Torah Reading In Orbit And 5 Other Fun Facts About Jews In Space
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Torah tells how God created the earth and the heavens, although the stories that follow tell us more about the former than the latter. A new exhibit doesn’t quite answer theological questions about space, but it does show the ways in which Jews have looked at, written about and traveled into…
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Fast Forward Parkland School Shooting Survivors Travel To NYC For Chabad Youth Summit
Three students who survived the shooting earlier this month at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida traveled to New York City over the weekend to take part in Chabad’s annual youth festival, the New York Post reported. The students were part of roughly 2,500 teenagers who attended Chabad’s CTeen meeting, held in Brooklyn. The…
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Fast Forward Gay Israeli Jews And Muslims Get Cooking Class from French Presidential Chef
The chef from France’s presidential palace traveled to Israel to give a cooking class to gay Jews and Muslims who have been rejected by their families, AFP reported Monday. Guillaume Gomez, the head chef of the Elysee presidential palace, participated in the annual So French, So Food festival in Tel Aviv. He partnered with Beit…
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Opinion The Biggest Threat To The Jews? The Partisan Divide.
The central existential threat to Jews in America today is the toxic nature of partisanship in American political culture. I believe we are at a critical juncture for a new American Jewish conversation on this issue that asks us to consider how our political choices as Jews implicate our collective identity as Jews in America….
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Community Struggling To Dialogue Over Israel And Palestine? Try Poetry.
On a cold afternoon at the end of Fall term, I walked into my college classroom with trepidation. I knew the students well by then: they were intelligent, engaged, and willing to discuss complex poetry and fiction from all over the world. But the reading for that day — a selection of poems by Israeli…
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Fast Forward Jewish Outreach Group Ramps Up Conversions In Africa, Latin America
The international Jewish outreach group Kulanu is trumpeting their 2017 accomplishments, including organizing more than 150 Jewish conversions in Africa and Latin America. “This year, Kulanu teams traveled to Nicaragua in July and Côte d’Ivoire in December to help people who had been preparing for years to convert to Judaism,” the New York-based group wrote…
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Fast Forward Doctor Accused Of ‘Sneaking In and Killing’ Man At Orthodox Jewish Nursing Home
A doctor who performs medically assisted deaths is being accused of “sneaking in and killing someone” at an Orthodox Jewish nursing home in Canada. The Louis Brier Nursing Home in Vancouver has filed a complaint with the British Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons against Dr. Ellen Wiebe after she responded to 83-year-old Barry Hyman’s…
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Fast Forward A Black, Hasidic Jew Says He Almost Got Shot By Police — For Buying Conditioner
Ben Faulding is a black black-hat: an African-American Hasidic Jew — and he is proud of his twin identities. But he thinks that he was nearly killed for the color of his skin Wednesday — while buying hair care products at a pharmacy. In a Twitter thread that went viral, having been retweeted over 66,000…
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News Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
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Fast Forward As ICE targets a pro-Palestinian activist, some Jews are asking if this is the fight against antisemitism they signed up for
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Fast Forward American Jewish Committee says it’s ‘appalled’ by Mahmoud Khalil’s views but does not praise his arrest
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Fast Forward Antisemitic terror plot in Australia was fake and staged by a crime boss, police say
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Fast Forward A bagel shop backed out of a Jewish food festival over Israel. Then regret set in.
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