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Fast Forward David Blatt Quits as Russian Hoops Coach
American-Israel basketball coach David Blatt announced that he would end his tenure at the helm of Russia’s national basketball team. Blatt said Tuesday that he would not renew his contract with the Russian team, just three months after leading the team to a bronze medal at the 1912 London Olympics. During his seven years as…
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Fast Forward New York Struggles To Get Back on Feet
Millions across the U.S. Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume their normal lives on Wednesday as companies, markets and airports reopen despite grim projections of power and mass transit outages around New York for several more days. With six days to go before the Nov. 6 elections, President Barack Obama will…
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Fast Forward Twitter Proves Mettle in Sandy, Despite Hoaxes
As Hurricane Sandy pounded the U.S. Atlantic coast on Monday night, knocking out electricity and Internet connections, millions of residents turned to Twitter as a part-newswire, part-911 hotline that hummed through the night even as some websites failed and swathes of Manhattan fell dark. But the social network also became a fertile ground for pranksters…
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News Sandy Wreaks Untold Havoc on Jewish Communities
The massive storm system that ransacked the East Coast on October 29 brought unprecedented devastation to Jewish communities in and around New York City. Sandy pushed eight-foot-high waves through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Manhattan Beach. In Sea Gate, on the western tip of Coney Island, entire homes collapsed. An apartment building was evacuated after basement…
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News Yeshivas Score Huge Pell Grant Windfall
Each year, tens of millions of dollars in federal Pell grants go to yeshivas, many of which focus primarily on Talmud study, a Forward review of U.S. Department of Education data reveals. The Jewish colleges take their place among many other religion-oriented schools that receive Pell grant funds. But they punch far above their weight,…
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The Schmooze Liz or Dick: Who Was More Jewish?
Who was more Jewish — Elizabeth Taylor or Richard Burton? This question was the basis for squabbles between the married Hollywood superstars, according to Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s “Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century.” Taylor was a celebrated convert to Judaism, but Burton was proud of having a…
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Fast Forward Jewish Pair Killed as Sandy Topples Tree
Two Jewish 23-year-olds were killed in the midst of Hurricane Sandy on Monday night while walking their dog in Brooklyn. Jacob Vogelman and Jessie Streich-Kest were hit by a falling tree in the Ditmas Park neighborhood, the New York Observer reported. The two grew up at Park Slope synagogues, according to a source who knows…
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Fast Forward Sandy Strikes Heart of Jewish Community
Less than a year into her job at North Shore Synagogue in Syosset, N.Y., Rabbi Debbie Bravo sounded remarkably poised as she and her community face one of their most powerful challenges together: Hurricane Sandy. Bravo’s land line was dead. When she picked up her cell phone Tuesday, she had just returned from the local…
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