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Fast Forward A ‘Bachelorette’ contestant this season is the great-great-grandson of the last chief rabbi of Kovno
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Fast Forward New Discovery/Max reality show ‘Survive the Raft’ features a Messianic ‘rabbi’ who says ‘I’m Jewish, too’
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Film & TV Jerry Springer, son of Jewish refugees and star of TV’s most controversial show, dies at 79
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Culture The rabbis warned us against reality shows like ‘Love Is Blind’
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