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Imagine if there was a free program that predicted correct answers on the popular gameshow app HQ Trivia with near-perfect accuracy, helping countless people cheat the system and win cash? For a while, there was. When Jonathan Nassimi and Jake Mor created HQuack, they created a phenomenon within a phenomenon. Nassimi and Mor’s site “predicted…
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Community Our Very Own Forward Scribe Contributor Won A ‘Woman Of Valor’ Award
Our very own Cindy Grosz, a prolific Scribe contributor and author of You Don’t Have To Be Jewish with Cindy, will be honored at the 2018 Young Israel Dinner with the Aishes Chayil (Woman Of Valor) Award for her work as a pro-Israel and education activist. Mazal tov, Cindy!
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Opinion Shutting Down Young Jews Means Shutting Yourself Out Of The Future
A few weeks ago in these pages, Madi Norman, a student at the University of Chicago, argued that American Jewish institutions had lost sight of what matters to young people. The American Jewish establishment is obsessed with the boycott of Israel, argued Norman, when the truth is, for young people, it’s the occupation of millions…
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Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby took to Twitter to thank all those helping in the search for his missing teenage son — and plead for more help in the case. The dad’s poignant plea came as police continued to hunt for Caleb Jacoby, an 11th grader at Maimonides School in the Boston suburb of Brookline,…
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