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Life Hanukkah and Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day set aside to memorialize trans people who have been killed because of their gender identities. Founded in 1998 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender designer and activist in the wake of the murder of Rita Hester in Allston, Mass., the day is now observed in hundreds of…
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The Schmooze Your Jewish Boyfriend Adam Brody Gets Engaged
After ten months of dating, “O.C.” star Adam Brody is engaged to “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester, Radar Online reported on Tuesday. That sound you hear is every single Jewish girl everywhere in the world quietly sobbing into her hair straightener. Brody, 33, and Meester, 27, were first romantically connected while filming “The Oranges” in…
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The Schmooze Adam Levine Is People’s Sexiest Man Alive
Ladies, it’s time to dig up your old Maroon 5 albums. Adam Levine — our Adam Levine — is officially People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. And apparently, he was as surprised as you by the news: “As a musician, you have fantasies that you want to win Grammys, but I didn’t really think that this was…
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Fast Forward Vienna Museum Insists Jewish Owner Willingly Sold Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze for $750K
The Viennese museum that houses one of Gustav Klimt’s greatest artworks says it has evidence that its previous Jewish owner sold it to the Austrian state in an amicable transaction, rather than too cheaply under duress. The Secession museum is defending itself against a claim from some of the heirs of art collector Erich Lederer,…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Serial Killer Executed — Murdered Jewish Man at Synagogue After Bar Mitzvah
Missouri serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, who killed one Jewish man as he left a synagogue after a bar mitzvah, was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for him to be put to death, a corrections spokesman said. Franklin, 63, was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m. CST…
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Fast Forward Iranian Jews Rally in Favor of Nuclear Program
Iranian Jews demonstrated in Tehran in support of Iran’s nuclear program. Tuesday’s demonstration came a day before the resumption in Geneva of negotiations between Iran and world powers over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. The demonstration of Iranian Jews was held in front of the United Nations office in Tehran, with demonstrators holding Torah scrolls…
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Opinion Stunning Nazi-Looted Art Find Reignites Question of German Restitution
The recent revelation that German authorities discovered a treasure trove of presumed-lost masterpieces of art in the dingy apartment of a Nazi art dealer’s son has reignited the complicated issue of reparations almost 50 years after Germany declared its job of restitution complete. Though the legal ramifications are byzantine, it appears that officials have a…
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The Schmooze Jackie O’s Jewish Knight
The extensive media coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy also showcases Jackie Kennedy front and center as Camelot’s crown jewel. Fashion trend-setter, charmer of world leaders, restorer of the White House’s historic treasure, she is credited as the meticulous architect—down to the gravesite eternal light — of her…
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