Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Controversial Writer To Address Jewish GOPers
British-born muckraker Christopher Hitchens has swapped allies and enemies more than once, most recently by supporting the Iraq War and attacking its critics. Still, he appears to have scaled new heights of unpredictability with his upcoming appearance at a Republican Jewish Coalition event. Hitchens is slated to take part in a January 18 coalition-sponsored panel…
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News Vandals Target Synagogue, Public Hanukkah Displays
Vandals desecrated public Hanukkah displays in four municipalities across the country, while leaving adjacent Christmas displays untouched. And in Canada, Beth Shalom Synagogue in Edmonton, Alberta, was spray-painted with antisemitic graffiti — including a swastika — on Christmas Eve. Between December 13 and December 24, menorah displays in Philadelphia; Orange County, Calif., and the hamlets…
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News NPR Collection Puts Voices on the Page
Hanukkah is a holiday of stories, and “Hanukkah Lights,” a new collection from National Public Radio, offers a sampling as warm and sweet as a mug of fair-trade hot chocolate. Over the years, NPR’s “Hanukkah Lights” program, featuring modern-day Hanukkah tales read aloud, has presented selections by such literary luminaries as Elie Wiesel, Mark Helprin…
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Israel News VH1 Goes Jewish
A Lenny Bruce sketch for the present day: Jack Black is Jewish; Ali G is Jewish; Madonna is goyish but pretends to be Jewish. Suddenly it’s hip to be Jewish. Or so says the new VH1 special, “So Jewtastic,” which examines Jews in pop culture with all the insight and subtlety its title would imply….
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Israel News More Jewish Rap? That’s Chutzpah
Chutzpah — “the world’s first Jewish hip hop supergroup” — is roughly what you would expect a Jewish novelty hip-hop group to be, provided you didn’t think too hard: On its newly released, eponymously named album the group raps about Hanukkah and about nagging mothers, throws in a smattering of Yiddish and peppers its lyrics…
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News Berlin Retailers’ Heirs To Get Restitution
In one of the largest Holocaust restitution cases in German history, the heirs of the Wertheim family, one of prewar Germany’s largest retailers, stand to receive more than $100 million in property looted by the Nazis. The development follows a decision by the current owner, retail conglomerate KarstadtQuelle AG, to drop its claims to three…
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Israel News SHORTCUTS
HITLER YOUTH: In response to public pressure, Teen People magazine, which is owned by Time Inc., killed a story on Lynx and Lamb Gaede, the 13-year-old California-based twins who make up the white supremacist singing duo Prussian Blue. According to the New York Daily News, a Time spokeswoman said that “a junior employee made unauthorized…
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News Ringing Up the Kosher Hotline
Rabbi David Polsky mans the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Hotline from a small, plain white office at the O.U.’s headquarters in downtown Manhattan. In the corner he has a large bookshelf containing volumes of the Shulchan Aruch and the Talmud’s Tractate Chulin, and a number of other books on kashrut, or Jewish dietary law. His desk…
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