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Benjamin Gladstone
By Benjamin Gladstone
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Culture Here’s what you need to know about Yom Kippur 2023
A definitive guide to Yom Kippur - the Jewish day of atonement from the Forward
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Culture Here’s what you need to know about Rosh Hashanah 2023
A definitive guide to the Jewish new year from the Forward
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News This Innocent-Seeming Group Is Actually A Major White Nationalist Organization
“Hundreds of illegal immigrants from the Congo are showing up on the streets of Texas. Jewish organizations have instructed them on how to fly to Ecuador & how to travel to the U.S. and how to claim asylum.” Those words appeared in an online chat room for members of the “American Identity Movement.” That’s the…
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Fast Forward Hasidic New Yorkers Urged To Donate To De Blasio’s Struggling Campaign
Supporters of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign have been circulating a Yiddish-language donation request to help the struggling candidate qualify for next month’s debate, Politico reported Thursday. The message called for 10,000 supporters to contribute $1 each to help de Blasio reach the debate’s qualifying threshold of 130,000 donors. As of the…
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Fast Forward Did Israelis Just Put Life On The Moon – By Mistake?
A botched Israeli mission may have just introduced an incredibly resilient lifeform to the moon, Wired reported Monday. The lunar lander Beresheet, which would have been the first private spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon, instead crashed on the surface in April. When it did, it dumped its contents, including a “lunar library”…
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Fast Forward The Hunt For Anne Frank’s Betrayer Continues – Now With High-Tech
The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer is still on – but now, it’s bolstered by high-tech research methods. Former FBI agent Vincent Pankoke is directing a team of forensic scientists and others in the hunt for the person who turned Anne Frank and her family in to the Nazis, National Geographic reported. The “cold case”…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semites Make A List Of Jews – And Twitter Stands Up In Solidarity
A wave of Jewish and non-Jewish supporters are Tweeting “I’m Jewish” in solidarity with journalist Ariel Sobel and others targeted by white supremacists online. On Monday, Jewish Journal columnist Ariel Sobel, who has written before about online harassment of Jewish women, urged her thousands of followers to “avoid typing out the phrase ‘I’m Jewish’ on…
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Fast Forward Trump Tweets Get Condemned By Anti-Defamation League, Supported By Neo-Nazis
The Anti-Defamation League on Monday criticized President Trump for his Twitter tirade that they and other observers categorized as racist. Trump wrote on Sunday that progressive Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Trump’s words were widely believed to refer to the “Squad”…
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