Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward New Discovery/Max reality show ‘Survive the Raft’ features a Messianic ‘rabbi’ who says ‘I’m Jewish, too’
The series is meant to show people with diverse perspectives working together
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Fast Forward ‘Maus’ evades a ban in Iowa after school district cites ‘ambiguity’ in new state law
The Holocaust memoir gets a reprieve as Urbandale awaits guidance from the state’s Department of Education
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Fast Forward South Carolina school district to return Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Fixer’ to shelves after yearlong removal
The Pulitzer-winning novel about an antisemitic blood libel had been accused of being inappropriate for children
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Fast Forward The Workers Circle, progressive Jewish group, leaves Conference of Presidents over disagreements on U.S. and Israel advocacy
The social justice organization’s exit from the Jewish umbrella advocacy group reveals deeper tensions within organized Jewry
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Fast Forward ‘Reasonable’ CNN viewers couldn’t mistake Trump for Hitler, judge rules
Dismissing a defamation suit, the judge ruled that the network’s claims that Trump was spreading 'The Big Lie' would not lead viewers to think he advocates the genocide of Jews
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Fast Forward Alaska man who vandalized Jewish museum with swastikas sentenced to 18 months in prison
The sentence reflected both the vandalism and drug trafficking charges
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Fast Forward Sinead O’Connor was once targeted by Itamar Ben-Gvir over a planned Israel concert for peace
The Irish singer, who died this week, was targeted by an extremist Israeli harassment campaign in 1997
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Fast Forward Hillel center in Odessa, Ukraine, damaged by Russian strike
It was the second Hillel in Ukraine to be damaged by Russian fire since the start of the war
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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