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Looking Forward How news veteran Ben Smith got his start in journalism — at the Forward
As a summer intern in 1998, he 'fell in love with journalism, with beat reporting'
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Fast Forward Congressman who was upside down on Zoom is also on the wrong side of Jews
Rep. Thomas Emmer, a Minnesota Republican, was the subject of social media mockery on Wednesday as he got stuck upside down during a virtual House Financial Services meeting on the COVID-19 relief bill. “I don’t know how to fix that,” Emmer said when a colleague informed him his face was seen upside down on the…
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News On Instagram, Jessica Yellin wants to give news straight
When Jessica Yellin received word that the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci had agreed to appear on her Instagram program, “News Not Noise,” she wasn’t inclined to believe it. “I was like, ‘What do you mean? Are you sure? Can you send me the email? Are you sure?’” Yellin recalled telling…
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Fast Forward Holocaust-Denying Canadian Journalist Sentenced To Prison
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Canadian editor was handed one-year prison sentence for promoting hatred against Jews and women in his publication. James Sears, editor of the quarterly Your Ward News in Toronto, was sentenced Thursday to two six-month terms by Judge Richard Blouin of the Ontario Court of Justice. The publication promoted Holocaust denial and…
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson, You’re Wrong About White Supremacy, Say Many Other Countries
In the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, international news outlets are pointing to white supremacist terrorism as the cause. Australia, for example: “US in the midst of a white nationalist terrorism crisis.” In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League found that “39 of the 50 killings committed by political extremists were carried out by…
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Food City Girl Coffee Brews Up Equality
With its ultra-timely mission around opportunities for women, Minnesota’s City Girl Coffee might seem like it sprung up as a caffeinated version of #TimesUp. But founder Alyza Bohbot had been thinking about gender disparity long before the current reckoning and last week’s Golden Globes. In fact, the seeds of her game-changing brand got planted nearly…
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Food Kosher Food Comes To Facebook HQ
It took almost 18 years, but kosher-observant employees at Facebook’s main campus in Menlo Park, California, finally have a kosher dining option. According to YNetNews, the venue — a large “caravan” that’s being called “Kosher Truck” — joins 11 other eateries at the company’s enormous headquarters. Kosher Truck, which is open to all of Facebook’s…
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Food Potato Pancake, Sure. But Can You Call It A Latke?
There was a lot of talk about grandmothers at the 9th Annual Latke Festival, held during Hannukah at the Brooklyn Museum: their recipes, their knuckles, their advice and their place at the hot stove. But no admitted Jewish grandmothers were on hand at the festival to insist on proper latkes. So what makes a latke…
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