Alex Weisler is a former journalist and the senior video and digital content producer for JDC, the global Jewish humanitarian organization.
Alex Weisler
By Alex Weisler
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The Schmooze Camel Race and the Erosion of the Bedouin Culture
When Israeli filmmakers Ezry Keydar and Nadav Ben Israel began making a documentary about a Bedouin man hoping to repopularize camel races, they had no idea his cause would become their fight, too. Now, Keydar reveals, in a wide-ranging Los Angeles Times interview, his view that camels, and the disappearance of the once widely beloved…
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The Schmooze Amid Cancellations, Editors Host Israeli Music Festival
Despite high-profile cancellations by the Pixies, Gorillaz and the Klaxons, the PiC.NiC music festival in Tel Aviv played host yesterday to Editors — and the band took to its online forum after the concert to call the performance “one of the most memorable shows of our career.” Lead singer Tom Smith, writing for the band…
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Israel News The Pixies Cancel Israel Concert
The Pixies in 1988 sang about being “stuck … out here on the Gaza Strip” in the song “River Euphrates,” but the alternative rock band has canceled a planned concert in Israel after an international outcry over the May 31 flotilla raid. Their act was to be part of PiC.NiC 2010, a daylong concert slated…
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The Schmooze Jesse James Tries To Auction Off Nazi Paraphernalia!
Jesse James and ex-mistress Michelle “Bombshell” McGee are at it again – Nazi apologism, that is. James, who actress Sandra Bullock served with divorce papers in April after news broke of his infidelity, first raised eyebrows when a photo surfaced of him trying on a Hitler salute for size. This week, the former “Monster Garage”…
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News The ‘Jewish Establishment’ Won’t Respond to Beinart, But Others Do
It is an essay that has lit up the blogosphere. And the reason is at least as much because of who wrote it as because of what he wrote. Yet the specific targets of his criticism remain silent. Peter Beinart’s “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” published in The New York Review of Books…
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News Got Kosher Milk? Shanghai Jews Drink by the Pint
At first glance, the carton is unremarkable: boxy and white, with a crudely sketched pastoral scene printed on the front — a forlorn bovine lounging in a pasture. But on closer examination, two elements leap out: the words “Organic Low Fat Milk” and a drawing of a smiling, jaunty cow wearing a yarmulke — the…
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Culture The Pearl Project Picks Up the Story Where the Slain Reporter Left Off
For two years, journalism students at Georgetown University worked tirelessly to separate fact from fiction in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and to finish the story he was pursuing when Pakistani extremists kidnapped and murdered him. The Pearl Project, an in-depth graduate journalism seminar co-directed by former Pearl colleague and friend…
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Culture ‘Names, Not Numbers’: Listening to the Stories Told by Holocaust Survivors
Tova Rosenberg knows about stories. Sitting in her Yeshiva University office in New York City’s Washington Heights, the creator of the Holocaust education project “Names, Not Numbers” recounted a student’s interview with the son of a Holocaust survivor. The son recalled asking his father, “Why do you survivors have all these stories?” And the father…
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