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Fast Forward Upstart Jewish Activists Push Aside Establishment Leaders
(JTA) — The conservative political blogger Ken Berwitz was enraged last month, but not by Democratic malfeasance, his favored bugbear. No, he was irked by the policies of an Oklahoma-based chain of craft stores. Berwitz was bothered not only that Hobby Lobby was keeping Hanukkah tchotchkes off its shelves, but that a clerk at a…
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News Intermarried Couples Raise Children in 2 Faiths
(JTA) — When Susan Katz Miller’s Episcopalian mother and Jewish father married in the 1960s, they did exactly what most religious leaders advised intermarried couples to do: They chose one religion and stuck to it. Katz Miller’s mother put her religious tradition aside, learning to make matzah balls and shepherding her four children through bar and…
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Life Recalling Chana Mlotek, Mother of Yiddish Music
Before there were blogs and Wikipedia, there were archivists like Chana Mlotek, an expert in Yiddish ethnomusicology, whose memory was a trove of cultivated knowledge spanning fields of literature and history. Mlotek is pictured here (back row, third from right) in the 1960s in the Bronx, with a Yiddish-speaking mother’s group that was affiliated with…
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Fast Forward Israeli Finishes Third in World Series of Poker Tournament
Israel native Amir Lehavot finished in third place in the World Series of Poker, taking home about $3.7 million. Lehavot, 38, who lives in South Florida, was eliminated Tuesday morning. The tournament in Las Vegas started on July 6 with 6,352 competitors who each bought in for $10,000. He moved to the United States from…
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The Schmooze Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs to Host People’s Choice Awards
As of right now until 11:59 p.m. on December 5, you can now vote for your picks for the People’s Choice Awards. In other fun news, the show will be hosted by TV’s second famous broke women (you know, because “Girls”…): Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs, stars of “2 Broke Girls.” It happened! Beth and…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Scores $5M Gift From Mandel Foundation
The Cleveland-based Mandel Foundation awarded $5.25 million to Brandeis University to endow a professorship in Jewish education research. The suburban Boston university on Monday announced the gift by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation to fund the faculty chair and strengthen the programming at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in…
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News French Jews Knew To Expect Worst After Kristallnacht
(JTA) — His hearing isn’t what it used to be, but Georges Loinger still remembers Adolf Hitler’s voice emanating from the radio at his Strasbourg home. Growing up in the heavily Germanic Alsace region of eastern France, Loinger and his family tuned in regularly to broadcasts of Hitler’s speeches. They heard his “electrifying voice” and…
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The Schmooze Google Doodle Honors Raymond Loewy
If you’ve had to search for anything on Google today (which, let’s face it, you probably have), you have most likely encountered the Google Doodle honoring Raymond Loewy: Known as the “father behind industrial design,” he would have celebrated his 120th birthday today. Born in France in 1893 to a Viennese Jewish father and a…
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