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News 100 Years of Centennials; How to Survive Passover
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward deputy arts editor Ezra Glinter to discuss the centenary of the publishing of Swann’s Way and why the next 100 years will be filled with centenaries. Then, Forward food editor drops by to give us some hints on how to get through…
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Opinion Anthony Lewis, Teacher and Thinker, Cared More About Israel Than His Critics
In all the richly deserved encomiums that came in the wake of Tony Lewis’s death, there is scarce mention of Lewis’s frequent commentary on the Israel/Palestine conflict. It is as if all he wrote about – and this, all agree, he did brilliantly – was the law and the courts. But in fact his interest…
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The Schmooze Barbara Walters Is Retiring
39 years after she first got behind an anchor’s desk at “The Today Show,” sources have confirmed that Barbara Walters will be retiring in May 2014. A number of specials and send-offs are in the works to celebrate the grande dame of television’s 52-year-career. Walters will also be leaving her show “The View,” along with…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism 7 Times Higher for Belgian Muslim Students: Report
A major survey among Belgian teenagers indicated anti-Semitism was seven times more prevalent among Muslim youths than in non-Muslim teenagers. Conducted in recent months by three universities for the Flemish government, the survey was published last month based on questionnaires filled out by 3,867 high school students in Antwerp and Ghent, including 1,068 Muslims. Among…
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Fast Forward Russia Will Move Disputed Chabad Schneerson Collection to Jewish Museum
Russia plans to move Jewish texts claimed by the Chabad Lubavitch movement to Moscow’s newly opened Jewish museum next month. Russian Deputy Culture Minister Grigory Ivliyev told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday that the disputed Schneerson library will be moved to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. “We will start moving the…
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Fast Forward Boris Berezovsky Inquest ‘Can’t Rule Out’ Murder of Fallen Tycoon
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who died in a mansion near London in unexplained circumstances last weekend, was found lying on the floor of the bathroom with a “ligature around his neck”, an inquest into his death heard on Thursday. Police have said there was no sign of a struggle and that the 67-year-old’s death was…
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News Jayson Littman, ‘Mayor’ of Gay Jewish Party Scene, Was Once Yeshiva Boy
“You’re now a gay American Jew? Are you a Jewish American gay? Are you an American gay Jew?” Jayson Littman pondered his multiple identities. Is it possible to be all three simultaneously? For Littman, it’s a rhetorical question. The 35-year-old financial consultant hosts parties in New York City, where the scene is decidedly gay and…
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News ‘Jews of Egypt’ Rides Bumpy Road to Premiere
A controversial documentary on Egypt’s expulsion of its long-resident Jewish population opened despite an initial effort by the Egyptian government to block its release. “Jews of Egypt” opened on March 27 at three movie theaters in Cairo and Alexandria after official permission was first granted, then withdrawn and then granted again. When the initial scheduled…
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