Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Jewish Cemetery In St. Louis Starts Repairs After Vandalism
A St. Louis Jewish cemetery is repairing dozens of headstones toppled or damaged by vandals over the weekend, and accepting donations to the restoration efforts on its website. Repairs now underway at Chesed Shel Emeth, the historic Jewish cemetery, where vandals knocked over 150+ headstones yesterday. pic.twitter.com/QIUotjvuqq — Kiya Edwards (@KSDKkiya) February 21, 2017 Police…
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Fast Forward Israeli Model Cashes In As Melania Trump Impersonator
Looking like Melania Trump is propelling an Israeli actress and model based in New York City to national acclaim. Mira Tzur first started acting the part when John Di Domenico, a long-time Donald Trump impersonator, asked her to play Melania alongside him in a video, her publicist wrote the Forward in an email. Tzur, 45,…
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Fast Forward San Diego JCC Evacuated After Emailed Bomb Threat
A JCC outside San Diego evacuated the building and called the police after receiving an emailed bomb threat. It was the second threat the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, California received in the past month. The JCC received a bomb threat. SDPD did a sweep of the building and determined the threat…
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Breaking News YU Student Facebook Page Exposes Misogynist, Bigoted Comments At Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University men beware: What’s said on your campus might not stay there. Since November, a student at the university, one of Orthodoxy’s flagship institutions, has been using a Facebook page to document incidents of racism, misogyny and homophobia on the New York City campus. Or, as the page puts it: “real things said by…
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Breaking News New YU Feminism Club’s First Billboard Torn Down After Just Hours
The newly formed Yeshiva University Feminism Club’s first bulletin board display was ripped down about an hour after it was put up. “It didn’t take very long. We’re disappointed, but unfortunately, not surprised,” the club wrote on Facebook on February 16. The display in consisted of quotes taken from the Facebook page “A YU Bochur…
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Fast Forward A Death Camp Marriage Endures – 75 Years Later
75 years ago, Isaac Blum saved his sweetheart from being sent to a Nazi death camp. “I saw Roza The New York Times. “I went up to the German and told him, ‘That’s my sister,’ even though she was my girlfriend.” The soldier, seeing that Roza was able-bodied, decided to send the pair to a…
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Fast Forward Kushner Brother’s Supermodel Girlfriend Apologizes For Insensitivity – Again
Supermodel Karlie Kloss apologized on Twitter for posing in a geisha robe for a Vogue photo shoot criticized as cultural appropriation. pic.twitter.com/Xem3dkaDZZ — Karlie Kloss (@karliekloss) February 15, 2017 In 2012, Kloss walked the Victoria’s Secret runway wearing a Native American inspired feather headdress and jewelry. She later apologized on Twitter and Victoria’s Secret did…
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Fast Forward Ivanka And Jared Party With Gwen Stefani At Steve Schwarzman $20M Birthday Bash
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump took a night off in Palm Beach last week to attend the 70th birthday party of billionaire Steve Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone Group. Schwarzman heads up President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum. Speculation on the cost of the party go as high as $20 million with a performance by Gwen…
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