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Opinion News Quiz: Yasser Arafat, Portuguese Plumbers and the ‘Quenelle’
From Portuguese plumbers to Maimonides, we’ve got Jews in the news for you, along with Facebook, Yasser Arafat and creamed herring. Just try finding those someplace else. (All together, we mean.)
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Opinion News Quiz: Wonder Woman, Cannabis and a Brand New Pill
Wonder Woman, weed and a strange new pill. It sounds like a bad trip, or even worse comic book. But actually it’s just last week’s Jewish news, all rolled into one big, fat quiz.
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Opinion News Quiz: Kanye West, the Coen Brothers and Chabad
When you’ve got Kanye and the Coen Brothers, can the Klezmatics be far behind? Not in this week’s news quiz, they can’t. And neither can Jewish children’s books about chickens. For real. It’s a trend.
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Opinion News Quiz: Adam Levine’s New Title
Adam Levine meets Chiwetel Ejiofor and Nazi gold in what SOUNDS like a really bad movie, but is actually this week’s really fun Jewish news quiz. And guess who else is here? King Solomon and Brad Pitt! Ok… so maybe that’s a movie I’d see.
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Opinion News Quiz: Katz’s Deli, Silvio Berlusconi and Lyndon Johnson
A knish, a salami and Natalie Portman walk into a Jewish News Quiz. What happens next? Take the quiz!
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Opinion News Quiz: Kosher Starbucks, Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer and Bernie Goetz. They’re back, in this week’s quiz. The latest item to wow visitors to Kosherfest? It’s here, too, because, like those men, it’s as Jewish and strange as it Goetz. <a href=”http://theforward.polldaddy.com/s/jew-hear-about-2″>View Survey</a>
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Opinion News Quiz: Lou Reed, Leonard Bernstein and Billy Crystal
Lou Reed, exposed! Leonard Bernstein, less so! And Hitler? He’s hiding in plain sight in this week’s Jewish news quiz, which also touches upon twerking and Billy Crystal. (But not Billy Crystal twerking.)
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News Jewish Pimp From Brownsville Faces Long Arm of Justice
1913 •100 years ago Verdict Awaited in Pimping Trial After days of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Avrom Belkin was still unable to come to a decision. On trial for forcing a young woman into prostitution, Minsk-born Belkin claimed he was innocent. Annie Jacobs, the girl in question, testified against him and described…
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News Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
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Opinion I grew up under a terrifying authoritarian regime. Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is right out of their playbook
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Fast Forward Trump guts Department of Education, slashing office handling antisemitism complaints
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Fast Forward As ICE targets a pro-Palestinian activist, some Jews are asking if this is the fight against antisemitism they signed up for
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Fast Forward American Jewish Committee says it’s ‘appalled’ by Mahmoud Khalil’s views but does not praise his arrest
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