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Opinion Will the Next Generation Give?
The names are recognizable everywhere: Adelson, Steinhardt, Shusterman. Bronfman, Perelman, Kimmel and Tisch. Soros, Bloomberg, Broad, Jacobs, Blavatnik and more. They represent American Jewry’s golden givers, its most wealthy and generous philanthropists. Some of these people direct but a fraction of their giving to explicitly Jewish causes, but they help create, shape, sustain and direct…
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The Schmooze Stephen Fry Calls for Sochi Olympics Boycott
British actor and comedian Stephen Fry urged on Wednesday that Russia should be banned from hosting the Winter Olympics due to its repressive policies against gays and lesbians, the Mirror reported. In an open letter to British prime minister David Cameron, Fry compared the victimizations of homosexuals Putin’s Russia to the treatment of Jews in…
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Opinion News Quiz: Hasidic Alt-Rockers and Real Housewives
Kafka, Golda and one of the New York Knicks — that’s just not a threesome you’d expect anywhere but here, in your news quiz. We’ve also thrown in some “Real Housewives” gossip and a Hasidic girl group. Time to dive in!
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Fast Forward If I’m Racist ‘So Is Israel,’ Embattled Mayor Declares
Over the past few days, many people have been calling me a racist. Sometimes they also call me a Nazi, a bully or even Hitler. One need only look at the comments on Haaretz’s website to put me before a firing squad. What’s my crime? What act of bullying did I commit? I made a…
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The Schmooze Charlie Sheen Dating Jewish Porn Star
It turns out James Deen has a female equivalent. TMZ has identified all three of Charlie Sheen’s “angels,” the three porn stars that the actor has reportedly been dating. Their names are Jana Jordan, Celeste Star and, most interestingly for us, Jayme Langford. Langford, it turns out, is not only Jewish, but studied bioethics at…
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Fast Forward Horace Mann Pays More Than $1 Million to Victims of Sexual Abuse Scandal
Horace Mann paid out over $1 million to victims in the wake of the elite private school’s sexual abuse scandal last year, according to court filings, The New York Times reports. The legal papers were filed at the New York Supreme Court as the pricey Riverdale private school sues its insurers to recover some of…
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Fast Forward Original Oskar Schindler Factory Construction Plans Up For Auction
A collection of rare documents belonging to Oskar Schindler, including original construction plans to build facilities intended to house Jews during the war, will be auctioned off later this month. The lot, offered by RR Auction, will also include a letters in which Schindler negotiated to keep open his factory in Krakau, Poland, even after…
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News Hazards of Dating While Jewish in Berlin
‘So you’re Jewish, right?” Tobias asked while we were watching an episode of “Real Housewives” on his couch. “Yup,” I responded. Even though this was our first date after meeting in a yoga class — he was the flexible, relaxed one; I was schvitzing and falling — I let a few more details slip because…
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