Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Ed Schoenfeld, Jewish restaurateur who helped promote Chinese food to New York palates in the 1970s and 80s, is dead at 72
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Ed Schoenfeld, a Jewish restaurateur who helped promote an array of Chinese food options in New York City over decades, died Friday at 72. Schoenfeld’s love of cooking first began with Jewish dishes like kreplach and blintzes, which he learned in his grandmother’s kitchen. And yet,…
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Fast Forward ‘I am grateful to be alive’: rabbi held hostage in synagogue attack speaks out in Facebook post
(JTA) — Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi who was held hostage at his synagogue Saturday along with three others, spoke out about the experience for the first time in a Facebook post Sunday morning. He wrote: I am thankful and filled with appreciation for All of the vigils and prayers and love and support, All…
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Fast Forward University of Michigan president fired over inappropriate relationship with subordinate, including flirty knish emails
(JTA) — The University of Michigan Board of Regents fired the school’s president, Mark Schlissel, over an alleged relationship he conducted with a subordinate employee at the university. The news was announced Saturday in a letter posted to the university’s website along with a trove of emails and texts between Schlissel and the employee from…
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Fast Forward New Jersey yeshiva principal resigns abruptly amid allegations of past sexual abuse
(JTA) — Rabbi Shlomo Adelman returned to his position leading a Modern Orthodox yeshiva in New Jersey in October, just weeks being placed on leave following an allegation that he had molested a camper decades earlier. So it came as a surprise on Wednesday morning when parents at Torah Academy of Bergen County woke up…
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Fast Forward Israeli government coalition teeters amid conflict over JNF tree-planting in Bedouin villages
(JTA) — Members of one of Israel’s Arab political parties are vowing to boycott Knesset proceeding, and thus threatening the coalition that governs by a slim majority, over what they see as an attack on their constituents among the Bedouin Arabs of Israel’s Negev region. That offensive has come in the form of forestation efforts…
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Fast Forward Stanford to investigate claims that it capped admissions for Jews in the 1950s
(JTA) — That Ivy League schools placed quotas on the number of Jews admitted to their classes through much of the first half of the twentieth century has long been established as fact. But the existence of a quota on Jewish students at Stanford University in Northern California was never more than a rumor —…
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Fast Forward Poland appointed an envoy to repair relations with Jews. Less than 6 months later, he was fired.
(JTA) — Less than six months ago, the Polish government appointed an envoy to improve relations with Polish Jews, after recent years of tensions spurred by a series of laws involving Holocaust rhetoric and restitution. On Saturday, the envoy was fired. Jaroslaw Marek Nowak had criticized one of Poland’s Holocaust laws in an interview with…
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Fast Forward Golden Globes 2022: Andrew Garfield, and Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story,’ win big
(JTA) — Golden Globes fans may have noticed something different this year: The annual entertainment awards were not announced on TV, and not for COVID-19 reasons. NBC dropped the broadcast over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s diversity problem — none of the 87 members of the Globes’ awards body are Black. (The one celebrity to…
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