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Food College Freshman Rolls Out Kosher Food Truck in D.C.
A 19-year-old George Washington University freshman with zero culinary experience is the brains behind Brooklyn Sandwich Company, a new Glatt kosher food truck in DC. A generous donor and a crowdfunding campaign helped get Carly Meisel’s new business off – or on – the ground. There’s a pastrami sandwich, beef brisket and cholent. But the…
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News For Seth Rich, Passion for Service Started With Kosher Cookouts at Camp Ramah
Strictly speaking, grilling food inside cabins has never been allowed at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. But for Seth Rich, the Jewish Democratic National Committee staffer tragically killed in Washington on July 10, the prohibition rarely got in the way of a late-night salami cook-in or a marathon grilled cheese-making session. “Seth had a whole kitchen…
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News Promising Jewish Democratic National Committee Staffer Shot Dead on Own Washington D.C. Block
Seth Rich, a promising employee of the Democratic National Committee from a prominent Jewish family in Omaha, Nebraska, was shot and killed as he walked home on his Washington D.C. block early Sunday. Police were investigating the crime and said there were no suspects and no motive known for the slaying, which took place at…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Woman Sues Washington Airports Authority for Not Allowing Her Passover Time Off
— An Orthodox Jewish woman has gone to a federal appeals court in her lawsuit against a former employer with claims she was punished for taking off time for the Passover holiday. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the American Jewish Committee each filed a friend of the court brief on Tuesday with the…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Opens Up on ‘Surreal’ Return to Normal Life
(Washingon Jewish Week) — Since being imprisoned in Cuba six years ago, Alan Gross says his life has been “surreal.” He feels disassociated from the causes of his five-year incarceration and from the resulting fame. He was locked up largely because of U.S.-Cuba relations, he says, and he is a public figure thanks to the…
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Fast Forward Barry Freundel’s Synagogue Still Haunted by Mikveh Peeping Scandal
(JTA) – Though it’s been more than a year since Rabbi Barry Freundel was hauled away in handcuffs for installing secret cameras at his synagogue’s mikvah, his crime still casts a shadow over his longtime Orthodox congregation, Kesher Israel. Three civil lawsuits are pending against Kesher by women who presumably used the ritual bath adjacent…
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Life Washington Jewish Women Reclaim Mikvah with Mural
(Washington Jewish Week via JTA) – When prominent Washington rabbi Barry Freundel was arrested last year for secretly videotaping dozens of women using the mikvah adjacent to his Orthodox synagogue, the sense of sacredness of the ritual of mikvah immersion was shattered for some local Jewish women. Local artist Rena Fruchter recently spearheaded a community…
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Fast Forward New Bible Museum Will House Israeli Antiquities Exhibit
The Museum of the Bible, set to open in Washington, D.C., in 2017, will house a large collection from the Israel Antiquities Authority. The authority, which oversees archaeological digs in Israel, will have a 4,000 square-foot exhibit space in the museum to show pieces from its collection of 2 million artifacts. The exhibit will be…
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