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Opinion Mitt’s Big Fat Jewish Wedding Snafu
Sometimes a candidate doesn’t have to chase after the Jewish vote. It chases him. That could be Mitt Romney’s conclusion from an unusual set of events he experienced in New Jersey today. Speeding from Newark Airport to Lake Terrace, N.J., Romney’s motorcade crossed paths with a Jewish Orthodox wedding party, posing for photos with the…
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Fast Forward Suspected Hungarian Nazi Cleared in Some Deaths
Suspected war criminal Laszlo Csatary of Hungary will not be charged with the murder of 300 Jews in 1941, prosecutors in Budapest said. Csatary’s alleged complicity in the murder of some 15,000 Jews in 1944 is still being investigated. Accusations that Csatary, 97, helped send the 300 to their deaths at the Kamyanets-Podilsky camp in…
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Fast Forward Olympic Champ Rebecca Soni Has Jewish Roots
Move over Michael Phelps, we have Rebecca Soni batting for our team. And by batting, I mean swimming laps. American breast stroke champion Rebecca Soni, who just picked up three Olympics medals, including two golds, and two world records this past week, is Jewish. Growing up in Freehold, N.J., Soni began swimming at an early…
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News Reading Ladino in Greece
For a flavor of Salonica and an insight into the Jewish life of this major Ottoman port, listen to Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein talk to Dan Friedman about their book “A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi”
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Life Talking ‘Trash’ With Romance Novel Queen
Blogger and self-proclaimed “man-titty media pundit” Sarah Wendell posts witty and wicked reviews of romance novels at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and has also written two books about the genre. The Sisterhood caught up with her to talk “trash,” sex and David Beckham in his underwear, plus what she really wants to know about “50…
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Fast Forward Aly Raisman Backs Moment of Silence
Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman expressed her support for an Olympic moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Olympics in 1972 during an interview following her gold medal win. “Having that floor music wasn’t intentional,” Raisman told reporters of her floor routine to the music of “Hava Nagila,” the New York Post…
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Fast Forward 1,300-Year-Old Olive Press Unearthed
A dig conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Hod Hasharon has uncovered a rare olive press from the Byzantine period, some 1,300 years ago. The excavation was being done ahead of the building of a new road in the area, near Kfar Malal. The dig revealed a surface for pressing the olives and a…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Heschel’s Papers Headed for Duke
Duke University has acquired a collection of the papers of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, including correspondence, publications, documents and photographs which have never been available to scholars. “The acquisition of the Heschel papers assures scholars that the legacy of social activism, human rights and the highest standards of Judaic scholarship will be central to the…
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