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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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Fast Forward Oxford Prof Resigns After Finding Out School Named For Trump Donor
Bo Rothstein resigned from his endowed professorship in government at Oxford University after learning that his school had been named in honor of a supporter of President Trump who had donated tens of millions of British pounds to the institution. “I’ve never had so much applause in my life,” said Rothstein, a Swedish-Jewish political scientist…
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Community The Crisis Of Faith In A Kreutzer Sonata
At age 18, David Lindenbaum finds himself suspended in between two universes that pull him in what he senses as opposite directions. On one side, there is his faith — a fervent Jew, Lindenbaum always wears a kippah (“Even while I’m sleeping,” he says with pride) and tries to maintain his religious identity also when…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville White Supremacist Was Once A Lefty — Who Dumped Jewish Girlfriend
Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, was once a liberal activist and once dumped his girlfriend who is of Jewish descent. But he didn’t break up with Laura Kleiner because she was Jewish or liberal — quite the contrary. “He broke up with me, and…
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Fast Forward Tales Of The ‘Kosher Nostra’s’ Last Jewish Gangster
Myron Sugerman, of Newark, N.J., has written his memoir: “The Chronicles of the Last Jewish Gangster from Meyer to Myron.” A slot machine installation specialist, Sugerman, 79, went all over the world helping gambling enterprises get off the ground, from South America to Africa to the Middle East. He arranged meetings between old Jewish mobsters…
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Fast Forward Hindu-Jewish Lesbian Couple Tie Knot In Touching Interfaith Ceremony
A Hindu woman and a Jewish woman tied the knot this week in a ceremony that’s being hailed as Britain’s first interfaith lesbian wedding. “It’s really nice to now have a Hindu wedding here, because it brings both of us together and completes both of us in my eyes,” Miriam Jefferson told the Daily Mail,…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Champagne,’ AKA Seltzer, Sees Its Popularity Bubble
Seltzer has long been a Jewish beverage of choice, from the saloons of the Lower East Side to the Shabbat tables of today. And it looks like America is catching on, as seltzer consumption hits a new record. According to NPR’s Morning Edition, Americans last year downed 170 million gallons of the fizz drink (“sparkling…
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