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The Schmooze Nick Cannon Writes Open Letter To Amanda Bynes
The last time Nick Cannon and Amanda Bynes hung out, they were fresh-faced and rosy-cheeked Nickelodeon darlings. Since then, Cannon has said “I do” to Mariah Carey, while Amanda…well, has very publicly self-destructed. But it seems that Cannon stands by his friends, no matter how many people they call “ugly.” In a post on his…
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Fast Forward Malmo Sees Tripling of Anti-Semitic Incidents
Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmo, has seen a near tripling of reports of anti-Semitic attacks, according to official figures. According to the Sydsvenskan local daily, Swedish police recorded 60 hate crimes against Jews in 2012, up from an average of 22 in 2010 and 2011, and during the first six months of 2013, police reported 35…
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Fast Forward Was Polish Catholic Priest Wojciech Lemanski Fired Over Ties to Jews?
When the outspoken Polish priest Wojciech Lemanski returned with his parishioners to his church near Warsaw after holding a prayer vigil at the Treblinka Nazi death camp in early July, a dismissal notice awaited him. The Warsaw diocese of the Roman Catholic Church sacked Lemanski as parish priest in the small village of Jasienica for…
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Fast Forward Dutch Orthodox School Still Roiled by Abuse
(JTA) — More than a year after his alleged molestation by a male teacher, 6-year-old Ehud (not his real name) still won’t tell everything he knows about the sex scandal rocking Amsterdam’s Cheider, the Dutch capital’s only Orthodox Jewish school. Ehud says the teacher, identified by Dutch media only as 25-year-old Ephraim S., used to…
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Fast Forward Aaron Panken Named President of Hebrew Union College
Rabbi Aaron Panken was elected president of The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion by its board of governors. HUC, the international university and seminary for Reform Judaism, made the announcement on Wednesday. Panken, 49, of Mamaroneck, N.Y., has taught rabbinic and Second Temple literature at HUC-JIR in New York since 1995. He has served…
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The Schmooze Some ‘Wicked’ Advice For Weiner
Anthony Weiner can rest easy: Kristen Chenoweth has found a way to save his campaign. Chenowith, best known for her Tony Award-winning performance in “Wicked,” the hit Broadway musical, gave the disgraced candidate a little advice during a parody rendition of one of the show’s hits, “Popular,” on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. “Can’t…
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Opinion News Quiz: Cannes Heist, Glenn Beck in Utah
Please note that this week’s news quiz does not contain any Anthony Weiner references… except in one question. Come on, what did you really expect? Besides, he’s in good company, sharing this quiz with Sacha Baron Cohen and, inevitably, perhaps, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, aka, Kate Middleton.
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Fast Forward Ossie Schechtman, Jewish Basketball Star, Dies at 94
Ossie Schectman, who scored the first basket in the league that would become the NBA, has died. Schectman, a New York native who made the historic layup while playing for his hometown Knicks, died Tuesday. He was 94. The Knicks were playing the Toronto Huskies on Nov. 1, 1946 in the first game of the…
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