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Fast Forward Hasidic Businessman Held in Bolivia Returns to U.S.
Jacob Ostreicher, a New York businessman held in Bolivia since 2011, has returned to the United States, the U.S. State Department reportedly confirmed. An unnamed State Department official late Monday confirmed to the Associated Press that Ostreicher was in the United States for the first time in more than two years, but did not provide…
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Life Q&A: "The New Soft War on Women" Authors
In their latest book, “The New Soft War on Women”, academics Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett take on the notion that the end of men is imminent — as posited in Hannah Rosin’s book. They argue that while women have made some gains, particularly early on their careers, we are still a long, long…
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Fast Forward Jewish Argentine Woman Wins World Boxing Organization Title
Carolina Raquel Duer, a Jewish Argentine retained the World Boxing Organization bantamweight title. Duer, popularly known as “The Turk,” defeated Mexican Estrella Valverde in a unanimous decision on Friday in Buenos Aires to take her second world title. The Jewish boxer raised her professional record to 16-3. The judges scored the 10-round bout 97-90, 99-88…
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News Jewish Artists Incorporating Science Into Their Displays Offer Critical Perspective
(JTA) — Jazz music drifts from speakers down to the cherry wood tables of the West Cafe in Brooklyn as the Israeli artist Nurit Bar-Shai prepares to show examples of her latest work. With deft, freckled hands, she opens a manila envelope and slides three petri dishes across the table. In the dishes are billions…
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Opinion Why I Had To Protest Nelson Mandela
Since Nelson Mandela’s death on December 5, my protests during his 1990 visit to New York have been characterized by many — including J.J. Goldberg on the Forward’s website — as radical and militant. Let me set the record straight: I consider Mandela to be a universal hero. The suffering he endured in prison for…
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The Schmooze Tila Tequila Banned From Facebook
Did you think Tila Tequila had come to her senses and deleted her Facebook rant defending Hitler? Wrong. The D-list celebrity was banned from Facebook for 30 days and her previous entries removed from the social media platform. This was her response: So you want to talk about hypocrisy? Ok then let us talk about…
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Fast Forward Israel Inaugurates First Memorial to Gay Holocaust Victims in Tel Aviv
Under gray and rainy skies, without fanfare, history was made in Israel on Tuesday with the inauguration in Tel Aviv of the country’s first memorial to victims of the Nazis that commemorates not only their suffering as Jews. After Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney and San Francisco, Tel Aviv now has a memorial to the thousands of…
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Fast Forward American Jew Who Vanished in Iran Was on Rogue CIA Mission
An American Jewish man who disappeared in Iran in 2007 had been working for the CIA in a rogue operation, an American newspaper reported. Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent, traveled to the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007 to investigate corruption at a time when he was discussing the renewal of a Central…
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