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Fast Forward Republican Presidential Hopefuls Rick Perry and Brian Sandoval To Visit Israel
Govs. Rick Perry of Texas and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Republicans tapped for 2016 presidential runs, are visiting Israel. Perry, who has visited Israel multiple times, was in the country this week to open the Nazareth campus of Texas A&M University. But he also had meetings with Israeli leaders, including on Monday with Prime Minister…
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Opinion News Quiz: Bloomberg’s Prize, Jewish Strippers and More!
Impressionists, Islamists and Jewish strippers — you KNOW there’s only one place to find them all: your weekly Jewish news quiz. Also making appearances this week: Mayor Bloomberg, disco and Eggnog. Yup. Eggnog.
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News Jewish Charity Scandals Tied to Long Tenures and Weak Oversight
One Jewish charity CEO hid allegedly stolen cash in his apartment closet. Another had an affair with his assistant while the assistant’s son-in-law stole from the CEO’s organization. A third covered up sex abuse charges for decades. Scandal after scandal has hit New York’s top Jewish charities this year. Experts blame lax oversight, saying that…
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Life Secular Spirituality Is Not an Oxymoron
Recently while talking with champion swimmer Diana Nyad, Oprah Winfrey expressed confusion over the concept of Nyad’s being both an atheist and a spiritual person capable of awe. David Edwards at Raw Story summarized their encounter Oprah Winfrey recently spoke to atheist long distance swimmer Diana Nyad and told her that she definitely wasn’t an…
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News Rise of Austria’s Far-Right Seen Through Eyes of Lone Jewish Lawmaker
It is hard to imagine finding a line from the Talmud at the post-election celebration of Austria’s populist, far-right Freedom Party. The scene, in a tent on the glittering Ringstrasse right next to Vienna’s City Hall, was smoke-filled and dimly lit. The overwhelmingly male crowd sat at long rows of wooden tables and benches, drinking…
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News Man Murders Wife, Eats Blintzes
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes unusual clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago Striker Killed in Philadelphia The Jews of Philadelphia are furious…
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News ESPN’s Andy Katz Talks College Basketball and Jewish Sports Guys
Chances are, if you are a college basketball fan, you have seen Andy Katz on ESPN. With nearly 300,000 followers on Twitter, Katz, is ESPN’s senior college basketball reporter and is a regular analyst on “College GameNight” and “SportsCenter.” Before making the jump to ESPN in 2000, Katz worked for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the…
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Fast Forward Former Camp Counselor Sentence to 13 Years in Prison For Sexual Assault
Yosef Kolko, a former Jewish educator from New Jersey, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for aggravated sexual assault. Kolko, who was sentenced late Thursday in Ocean County Superior Court in New Jersey, pleaded guilty in May to multiple sexual crimes. A former counselor at an Orthodox summer camp, Kolko admitted to performing oral…
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