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Fast Forward 26% of Americans Think Jews Killed Jesus, Poll Says
Twelve percent of Americans harbor deeply anti-Semitic attitudes, according to a new poll conducted by the Anti-Defamation League. The figure marks a decline of 3 percentage points from the last time the ADL took such a poll, in 2011, but approximately the same number as in an ADL poll in 2009. The latest ADL national…
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The Schmooze Happy Challah-ween from Jewish Celebrities
Hollywood is a veritable treasure trove of overly expensive and elaborate costumes come Halloween time, but also some of the most fun. Here are a few of the best costumes Jewish celebs have donned this year and in years past:
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Fast Forward William Rapfogel Got Free Day School Tuition for Children
(JTA) — It wasn’t the yeshiva tuition bills that drove William Rapfogel to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. On top of the $400,000-plus salary the agency was paying its disgraced CEO, the charity was also covering day school tuition for his three sons. Yeshiva tuition is frequently cited…
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Fast Forward Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller Buried in Jewish Mass Grave
Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller was buried in a Jewish mass grave following World War II, a Berlin political scientist confirmed. Muller, who as head of Nazi Germany’s secret police helped organize the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust, was buried with about 2,400 others, many unidentified, in the Jewish cemetery on Grosse Hamburgerstrasse in…
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The Schmooze Can Soy Products Turn You Gay?
An ultra-Orthodox sect has banned its Yeshiva students from eating soy products on the basis that the levels of estrogen found in soy beans could turn the men gay, the Haredi World newspaper reported on Tuesday. School officials are concerned that eating anything containing soy, even just one a week, “can cause unwanted arousal,” and…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Take Lives in Toronto 18th-Floor Double-Suicide Death Plunge
An octogenarian couple — both Jewish Holocaust survivors — killed themselves in Toronto in an apparent suicide pact. Police are treating the deaths of Vladimir Fiser, 89, and Marika Ferber, 84, as a double suicide. Their bodies were found Tuesday at the base of their apartment building. They are believed to have jumped to their…
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Fast Forward Topless Photo Shoot at Jewish Cemetery Didn’t Break Poland Law
A Polish photographer did not break the law by conducting a photo shoot with a half-naked model at the Jewish cemetery in Checiny. The city prosecutor in the Polish city of Kielce decided this week that Polish photographer Lukasz Szczygielski did not intend to insult the religious sensibilities of the cemetery of the Jewish community…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Trash 32 Graves at South African Jewish Cemetery
Vandals pushed over between 30 and 40 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in a small city in South Africa. Many of the desecrated gravestones were broken in the attack on the Jewish cemetery in Krugersdorp, a mining city in northwest South Africa, which occurred on the night of Oct. 27, according to Ryan Machet, a…
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