Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Synagogues and nonprofits become eligible for grants to upgrade energy efficiency in the new infrastructure bill
(JTA) — The massive infrastructure bill passed by Congress Friday will pour on trillion dollars into fixing and upgrading the country’s failing transportation systems. Thanks to one part of it, the bill will also put a few million into fixing up the country’s synagogues, religious schools and nonprofits. The Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act, a bill…
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Fast Forward Truck driver who spent just $153 to win NJ Senate race apologizes for comparing vaccine mandates to Holocaust and denigrating Islam
(JTA) — A New Jersey truck driver who defeated the former New Jersey State Senate president in an upset apologized Friday for social media posts in which he compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and called Islam a “cult of hate.” Edward Durr, who unexpectedly won the State Senate seat representing New Jersey’s 3rd legislative district…
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Fast Forward Purchased by former Algemeiner editor, New York Sun to relaunch with Seth Lipsky as editor
(JTA) — The New York Sun, a New York City broadsheet published from 2002 to 2008, will relaunch its web site after a sale to a former editor of The Algemeiner Journal, a Jewish publication with a conservative bent, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Seth Lipsky, who ran the New York Sun in its…
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene blames ‘vaccine Nazis’ for ‘ruining our country’ months after Holocaust museum apology
(JTA) — Marjorie Taylor Greene made another comparison between America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and the Holocaust in an interview on Steve Bannon’s podcast on Tuesday, months after apologizing for making such comparisons at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “They’re ruining our country, these vaccine Nazis,” she said, according to NBC News, noting that she…
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Fast Forward COVID-19 vaccines for kids are coming. These rabbis (and their kids) are ready with new prayers.
(JTA) — When Rabbi Lisa Gelber heard that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5-11, she couldn’t wait for the moment that her daughter would get the shot. But she also knew her daughter was scared of needles. So she sat down with her daughter, 11-year-old Zahara,…
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Fast Forward Retailers change Hanukkah product descriptions in response to customer complaints about cultural insensitivity
(JTA) — When shopping for Hanukkah-related products from mainstream retailers, it’s only a matter of time before you stumble across a product that misses the mark, like a mug decorated with the words “Deck the halls with matzo balls.” But this year, major retailers are responding to customer complaints about Hanukkah products they say are…
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Fast Forward A prolific Jewish writer has collected 4,000 tiny dreidels found by Eastern European treasure hunters
(JTA) — Even when Arthur Kurzweil sits by himself in his study, he doesn’t feel that he’s alone. After all, he has the dreidels — all 4,000 of them. Kurzweil, 70, is a prolific author and editor who has written books about Judaism and magic and his car rides with Talmud scholar Adin Steinsaltz, as…
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Fast Forward Protesters posed as neo-Nazis to target the GOP nominee in Virginia’s governor race
(JTA) — Demonstrators posed as the antisemitic white supremacists who led a deadly rally in Virginia in 2017 in a stunt protest against the state’s Republican candidate for governor, a sign of the increasing role charges of antisemitism are playing in the close race. The protest Friday against Glenn Youngkin, who is running for governor…
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