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Fast Forward Roseanne Sobbed About Racist Tweet In Shmuley Boteach Interview
(JTA) — Roseanne Barr reportedly cried and apologized for her racist tweet in a podcast interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Barr “was sobbing and very apologetic about the whole thing,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, which cited an unnamed source. Boteach did not air the interview. The call in to the podcast came two days after…
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Fast Forward Israeli Embassy Tweets Sassy ‘Mean Girls’ GIF To Iranian Leader
Iranian supreme leader zyatollah Ali Khamenei made it clear Sunday that Israel can’t sit with him. The ruler wrote a tweet calling Israel a “malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated.” Feeling personally victimized, the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. clapped back on Monday, replying with a…
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Fast Forward Roseanne Says ‘I Love All People’ In First Statement Since Tweet Scandal
Roseanne Barr was seen in public for the first time on Thursday, following her recent scandal, the Daily Mail reported. The 65-year-old was reportedly seen walking on a street in Utah, smoking a cigarette and engaged in a phone conversation. When approached by a Daily Mail reporter, Barr only replied “I believe in one law…
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The Schmooze Unpopular Opinions: Jewish Edition Is Taking Off On Twitter
Twitter, that bastion of crowd-sourced creativity, is at it again, this time with the unpopular opinions meme. @coffeespoonie invited her fellow Jews to share their least popular opinions with her. This was obviously a dangerous game, because every Jewish opinion is generally an unpopular one. But we just had to share some of our favorites….
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Fast Forward Before Racist Roseanne, There Was Jewish Priestess Roseanne
About two years ago, Roseanne Barr’s Twitter feed had a pretty different tone. Rather than erratically responding to the backlash over the racist tweet she posted Tuesday, she took to social media to share her newfound identity as a Jewish priestess. At the time, Barr became a vocal advocate for a movement that some called…
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Fast Forward Black Woman Unleashes ‘I’m Gonna Teach You A Lesson’ Viral Rant At Orthodox Man
A black woman unleashed an angry rant against an observant Jewish man on a Bronx subway train that has gone viral with more than 118,000 views on Twitter. The vitriolic straphanger went off for nearly two minutes about racism and discrimination which she blamed on Jews, the New York Post reported. “I’m schooling your a–-,”…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Gets Roasted By His Harvard Classmates
If Jared Kushner wasn’t sure how his former Harvard classmates felt about him, he does now — and it’s not pretty. Per tradition at Harvard College, members of Kushner’s graduating class were invited to submit updates on what they’ve been up in the last decade-and-a-half for the university’s annual 15th Anniversary Report. Kushner declined to…
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Fast Forward Aaron Schlossberg Calls Stranger An ‘Ugly F—king Foreigner’ In New Video
Aaron Schlossberg’s racist outburst against Spanish-speaking people in a deli wasn’t his first ugly moment caught on video. In a video from 2016, he was captured calling a man on the street “an ugly f—king foreigner” after barging into him. You have to see this. My friend @MoreWillie was randomly assaulted on a New York…
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