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News Portugal’s Jewish Law of Return Moves from Facebook to Statute Book
Until 2009, right-wing Portuguese politician Jose Ribeiro e Castro didn’t have much interest in the expulsion of his country’s Jewish community in the 16th century. That changed once Ribeiro e Castro opened a Facebook account. Online, the 60-year-old lawmaker and journalist connected to several Sephardic Jews, descendants of a once robust Jewish community numbering in…
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The Schmooze Meet Our Readers’ Top Jewish Dogs
We asked, you barked back. After ranking the “Top Jewish Dogs of All Time” last week, we thought it was time to go a little closer to home. And so, behold the top Jewish dogs in North America, as sent in by our readers. We were overwhelmed by the amount of submissions and the enthusiasm…
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News Triathlete Pia Levine Races Against Terrorism
Pia Levine, who is scheduled to compete in the Aquaphor NYC Triathlon on July 14, runs in a way that differs from other endurance athletes. Having survived a Jerusalem bus bombing in March 2011, just two days before running her first marathon, she says she participates to show that she has not been defeated by…
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The Schmooze Check Out James Deen’s New Movie
Relax, it’s not porn. James Deen, Jewish porn star, makes his non-X-rated debut in “The Canyons,” the upcoming movie co-starring Lindsday Lohan and based off a script by Bret Easton Ellis. The film — which was rejected by SXSW for having “an ugliness and a deadness to it,” marks a long-awaited (for her, at least)…
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Opinion Could Settlements Ease Israel Housing Crisis?
Two years after the Tel Aviv social protest movement was born out of anger at high property prices, Israelis have been told that they’ve misunderstood the problem all along. It is, the new Housing Minister insists, that there’s too little settlement activity. “The key to immediately stopping the rise in home prices is massive building…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Endorses Scott Stringer
Lena Dunham, native New Yorker, has spoken. The writer, director and producer of the HBO series “Girls”, took to Twitter on Thursday to announce who she supports in the hot race for the city’s third most important municipal office — New York City Comptroller. I’m a native New Yorker & I like my leaders with…
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Fast Forward Jewish Triple Murder Victim’s Mother: How Did Police Miss Tamerlan Tsarnaev?
The mother of a Jewish man killed in a 2011 triple murder in which slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has broken her silence — accusing police of conducting a lethargic probe into the gruesome killings. Bellie Hacker, whose son, Erik Weissman was brutally slashed to death along with a second Jewish man and…
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Fast Forward Matt Nosanchuk Named White House Jewish Liaison
The White House is set to name Matt Nosanchuk, a lawyer who has been prominent in advancing the Obama administration’s gay rights policies, as its new full-time Jewish liaison. Nosanchuk will replace Zach Kelly, who has held the job part time since the last full-time liaison to the Jewish community, Jarrod Bernstein, left for the…
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