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Fast Forward Judge who approved Trump search warrant attacked for synagogue involvement
Retired Met Lenny Dykstra is lobbing insults at a judge whose prior work for Jeffrey Epstein’s employees raised eyebrows
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Fast Forward 2,000 Gather At Mets Ballpark — For Jewish Learning
(JTA – More than 2,000 people came to Citi Field in New York on Sunday — not to root on the Mets, but to revel in Jewish learning. Some 38 internationally renowned scholars led classes on traditional and contemporary Jewish topics at the Orthodox Union’s second annual Torah New York. The event, which the O.U. says…
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Fast Forward Mets Great Ed Kranepool Appeals For Kidney Donation
A former Major League Baseball player who has lived with diabetes for much of his life, is in need of a new kidney due to complications with the illness. Ed Kranepool, who spent his entire career in baseball playing for the New York Mets, was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx. Kranepool helped…
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Culture ‘Mr. Met Is All Of Us Right Now’
In a gesture viewed with shock around the world — ok, just in New York — this past Wednesday night, beloved baseball mascot Mr. Met took the colorfully rebellious step of flipping off a fan. But New York-based writer Sadie Stein thinks we should hold off on the outrage. Last week, pre bird-flipping, Stein, whose…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump’s Rabbi Throws Out First Pitch — Mets Lose 7-0
(JTA) — Perhaps the injury-plagued New York Mets thought that having a rabbi throw out the first pitch before a game would bring some divine intervention. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the prominent modern Orthodox rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism, made the ceremonial toss at the Mets-Marlins game on Sunday to a smattering of applause at…
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Breaking News New York Mets Pitcher Steven Matz Keeps Getting Asked the ‘J Question’
(JTA) — It was a question fans were asking themselves last season during the team’s run to the World Series. Despite his surname, which is a syllable away from the word for unleavened Passover bread, the answer is no. But it turns out Matz gets the question all the time. So much so that when he met…
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The Schmooze Paul Rudd Is the Happiest Jewish Royals Fan Alive
Sorry, Mets fans, the Royals won the World Series. Actually, just kidding, I’m not sorry. Because I, an Israeli who grew up not watching any baseball at all, am a Royals fan. Yes, that’s what happens when you marry into a Jewish Kansas City family. My Kansas City family was elated last night. As a…
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