Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Pennsylvania governor announces $6.6 million in state funding to redevelop Tree of Life site
(JTA) — Pennsylvania will allocate $6.6 million in funding for the redevelopment of the Tree of Life synagogue campus where 11 people were killed in an antisemitic attack in 2018. Speaking at a press conference outside the synagogue Monday, the last day of Hanukkah, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfe called the state’s contribution to the renovation…
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Fast Forward Israeli man stabbed by Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City, Palestinian assailant shot dead
(JTA) — A Palestinian man was killed by Israel’s border police after he stabbed an Orthodox Jew near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City Saturday. The stabbing was the second incident of suspected terrorism in Jerusalem in less than two weeks. A gunman associated with Hamas opened fire in the Old City on Nov….
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Fast Forward Israel’s health minister wants to update the country’s ‘ridiculously outdated’ abortion rules
(JTA) — As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington on the most significant abortion case to reach the court in decades, Israel’s health minister laid out his plans to simplify what he called Israel’s “chauvinistic” abortion process and allow women to terminate a pregnancy within its first 12 weeks without approval by a…
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Fast Forward Boris Johnson breaks a menorah seconds after receiving it as a gift
(JTA) — Boris Johnson wasn’t trying to be funny when he broke the menorah he had received mere seconds before, but it certainly gave Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid a laugh. At an event in London Monday, Johnson sent pieces of a menorah he received as a gift flying in all directions after he hoisted…
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Fast Forward Stephen Colbert thinks there aren’t enough Hanukkah movies, so he made up some of his own
(JTA) — Stephen Colbert gave Jewish viewers of the Late Show a special Hanukkah gift Monday night: a bit about the glut of Christmas movies and the lack of Hanukkah films. Noting the combined 76 Christmas movies to be released by Lifetime and Hallmark this year, Colbert lamented that there were hardly any Hanukkah-themed movies….
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Fast Forward Non-citizens will be barred from traveling to Israel for 2 weeks as the country monitors Omicron variant
(JTA) — Israel will bar all non-Israelis from entering the country for at least two weeks due to concern about the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The travel ban begins Sunday night at midnight. The announcement was issued Saturday night, one day after the country banned visitors from several African countries due…
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Fast Forward Abraham Schumer, father of Sen. Chuck Schumer, died at 98
(JTA) — Abraham Schumer, the father of Sen. Chuck Schumer, died Wednesday in a Long Island hospital after recently undergoing surgery for heart problems. He was 98. Sen. Schumer remembered his father as a hard-working member of the “greatest generation” in a tweet Wednesday. “In so many ways—he personified the greatest generation. He took whatever…
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Fast Forward 2022 Grammy Awards: The Jewish nominees, from Doja Cat to Drake to an Israeli cellist
(JTA) — Some of the music industry’s most popular Jewish artists were included in the 2022 Grammy Award nominations unveiled on Tuesday. Here’s a roundup: Doja Cat, a Black and Jewish pop star-rapper hybrid who has become one of the most listened-to artists in the world — Spotify lists her as the 7th-most-streamed musician on…
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