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Speaking on a recent episode of her podcast, comedian Sarah Silverman decried the casting of non-Jewish actors to play Jewish characters in TV and movies, warning that the practice can veer into something she termed Jewface. The comments immediately drew heat from some listeners due to her use of the controversial term, which references blackface minstrel performance. Silverman used examples like the announcement of Katherine Hahns casting as Joan Rivers in an upcoming Showtime limited series and Rachel Brosnahans starring role in The Marvelous Mrs
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admin | October 26, 2021
The key to understanding the universe scientifically is questioning everything you think you know which also happens to be one of the fundamental tenets of Judaism. Thats the conclusion Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reaches with her book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.
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admin | October 26, 2021
When an Israeli hospital was thrown offline last week, sending it back to the pre-digital age of pen and paper, the country was forced to grapple with what its National Cyber Directorate described as a major ransomware attack a challenge that many countries have had to tackle in recent years. At the same time as Israeli doctors were contending with the ramifications of the significant blow to their health system, the White House National Security Council was convening a virtual conference on the topic of countering ransomware.
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admin | October 26, 2021
In celebration of his upcoming return to the NYC stage with "Broadway Israel" on October 24 at The Green Room 42, after a long forced Covid break, Isaac Sutton has released a special Hebrew lyric video of "Till I Hear You Sing" from Phantom of the Opera's sequel "Love Never Dies".
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admin | October 26, 2021
By Orge Castellano CARACAS, Venezuela (JTA) The Champlain Towers building collapse in Surfside, Florida, impacted a range of communities whose members lived in the diverse Miami-Dade area: immigrants from across Latin America, Jewish retirees from the Northeast, Jews from Puerto Rico. One of them still feeling the most pain months later is the Jewish community of Caracas, Venezuelas capital city
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admin | October 26, 2021
(JTA) Jrgen Krauss, the basically a Jewish dad on the latest season of The Great British Baking Show, lived up to his reputation during Desserts Week when he produced a Passover-inspired pavlova with a traditional charoset topping. Krauss, who is from the Black Forest region of Germany, is married to a British Jew
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admin | October 26, 2021
The YOU star who bagged the horror genres Scream Queen accolade for her captivating performances in various shows of the same genre. Alongside the famous gossip girl fame actor Penn Badgley, Victoria sure made her mark with her toe to toe performance both with her skills and character. YOU is one of a kid controversy, and the series presents us with the creepiest, utter maniac Joe Goldberg with his weirdest obsessions of making other lives his prey.
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admin | October 26, 2021
Over the past several months there has been an analysis of the Pew Research Center study in the United States which focused on the feelings, actions and considerations of American Jews.
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admin | October 26, 2021
Jury selection began Monday in an ambitious civil lawsuit against two dozen white nationalist individuals and organizations four years after a sweeping coalition of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other extremist factions descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, for a hate-fueled weekend rally that left one woman dead and many more people injured. Attorneys representing nine members of the Charlottesville community will attempt to prove that the defendants a range of far-right groups and white supremacist figureheads, including Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler and Christopher Cantwell conspired to commit acts of racial violence and force them to pay damages that could leave them in financial ruin. As a group, the plaintiffs who are Black, white and multiracial represent the kind of diversity the defendants oppose in America
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admin | October 26, 2021
For local coverage related to the coronavirus, go to dailyfreeman.com/tag/coronavirus. The Fall for Art Show, Sale and Community Fundraiser, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Ulster County, runs through 5 p.m. Friday, Oct.
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