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Fast Forward Ed Koch Gets Own Subway Stop on Day of Funeral
As New York prepares to say good-bye to Ed Koch, he’s even getting his own Manhattan subway station. On the day of the ex-mayor’s star studded funeral, Rep. Carolyn Maloney announced the renaming of the subway station at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue will be called “Mayor Ed Koch subway station,” according to the…
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Fast Forward Polish Jews Hope To Raze Historic Warsaw Ghetto Building
The Jewish community of Warsaw is advancing plans to demolish one of its historical, ghetto-era buildings in favor of new offices. The Jewish community favors a plan which would replace the White House on Twarda Street with a 20-story building where the community – which has tripled in size since the fall of Communism –…
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News An Old Dog’s New Tricks
When I was a little girl, there were things as clear as sunlight, as the sea God had split just for the Jews. One of those things was that dogs were despicable creatures. They were scary and dirty, with teeth like knives, and paws with claws, ripping flesh off bone, the way they’d done to…
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Culture 50 Years of Integration Began With Jewish Student’s Editorial
In 1962, a straight-A University of Alabama student named Melvin Meyer became a lightning rod of controversy when he published an editorial in the Crimson White, Alabama’s student newspaper, that countered the bigotry that was roiling the American south at the time. Meyer, a Jew from Starkville, Miss., was responding to the escalating tensions in…
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Fast Forward Fitting Epitaph? Ed Koch Movie Opens as Ex-Mayor’s Death Steals Spotlight
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch once joked that days on which his name did not appear in the newspaper were days without news. And so it seemed fitting that Koch’s death on Friday at age 88 came on the very day that “Koch,” a documentary that traces his three terms as mayor from 1978…
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Fast Forward Bizarre New Arab Conspiracy Theory Ties Muslim Brotherhood to Jews
A conspiracy theory circulating in the Arab world holds that the Muslim Brotherhood is secretly allied with the Jews, the Anti-Defamation League said. “It would seem that no allegation made against Jews and Israel is too absurd when it is used to discredit others,” ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a statement. Protesters were…
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Israel News Ed Koch Remained Proudly Jewish to the End, Whether in Israel or New York
One of the proudest moments of Ed Koch’s life came during a trip to Israel in 1990, in the midst of the first Palestinian intifada. Koch had recently left City Hall after 12 years as mayor of New York City and was touring Jerusalem when a Palestinian threw a rock at his group, striking Koch…
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Fast Forward Kosher at the Super Bowl? You’re Covered!
Jewish Super Bowl attendees will be able to find kosher food in the Superdome. A glatt kosher food cart under the supervision of the Louisiana Kosher Committee will be located on the fifth floor concourse, according to the Chabad.org website. In addition, two kosher New Orleans restaurants deliver to downtown New Orleans and its French…
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