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News That Sukkot Ritual Of Waving Branches Around Has Pagan Roots
While long overshadowed in the pantheon of Jewish holidays, Sukkot is the big one in the Bible – garnering the most mentions in the sacred text and coinciding with major ritual sacrifices and the reading of the Torah. But does this holiest of Jewish festivals have pagan origins? According to historical research, two of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Judge Officiates At Same-Sex Wedding Of 91-Year-Old Hawaiian Princess
A Jewish judge officiated at a Hawaiian princess’s lesbian wedding, as heiress Abigail Kawananakoa finally wed her life-long partner Veronica Gail Worth. Kawananakoa, 91, was deliberate about her choice of officiant – Stephen Levinson, the judge in question, authored a landmark opinion when he was an associate justice on the Hawaii Supreme Court. Back in…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman Helps Eritrean Refugees Get Settled In Brooklyn
A Jewish woman and her rabbi husband are helping two Eritrean refugees get settled in New York City – after the mother and daughter arrived in the United States earlier this month. “I got a call and they said, ‘Your friend Saba has been approved and would you consider being her U.S. sponsor,’” Mara Getz…
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee Says Trump Isn’t Racist Because He Let Jews Into Mar-a-Lago
Mike Huckabee hit back at charges of racism against President Trump by saying that he allowed Jews to join his Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida. “You know, when people say he’s this, but look at his history, or when people say he’s a racist, he’s not,” said the ex-Arkansas governor on ABC’s “The View.” “He’s…
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Fast Forward The Jew Who Found Hitler’s Teeth — And Carried Them Around In A Box For Days
The memoir of a Soviet military translator who helped identify Adolf Hitler’s body from the remains of his burned teeth is finally having her famous memoir about that experience published in English. Elena Rzhevskaya’s book, “Berlin, May 1945,” chronicles her effort in the post-war Nazi capital to get a positive identification on Hitler’s remains, found…
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Fast Forward Here’s How You Can Help Jewish Houston After Hurricane Harvey
As Hurricane Harvey leaves the country’s fourth largest metro area underwater, many Jews in Houston and the surrounding area have seen their homes and synagogues inundated and their sense of security shattered. In addition to helping out with the general relief effort, here are some organizations that are specifically helping Jews impacted by the epic…
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Fast Forward Rev. Al Sharpton Calls Black-Jewish Unity Crucial To Fight Racism — And Trump
After the Charlottesville crisis, and as worries about racism and anti-Semitism mount, Rev. Al Sharpton is calling on Jews and African-Americans to fight together what he calls the “clear and present danger of now.” “We are currently witnessing a rise in both [racism and anti-Semitism] in the U.S. and in many other places around the…
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Fast Forward Jews Help Rebuild Florida Mosque Burned In Hate Crime Attack
Jews helped power an online fundraiser to rebuild a Florida mosque burned in a hateful arson attack last Friday, said the organizer of the donation drive. “I couldn’t understand why people were donating in what seemed like weird amounts to the cause,” Adeel Karim, member of the Islamic Society of New Tampa, wrote on Facebook….
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