Backward Staff
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News Bidets Not BDS
At a recent board meeting of suburban Temple Emuna Gedola, president Steven Spielberg (not that one) deftly steered the conversation away from how the congregation should deal with Israel’s behavior in the occupied territories back to the ongoing bathroom renovations.
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News Santa Claus Furor
Second grader Stevie Cohen dropped a bombshell on his second grade classmates yesterday morning — Santa Claus does not exist. Cohen, retaliating for a stolen eraser, loudly informed his former best friend Arthur Grant that there is no Santa Claus and that Christmas presents come from parents. The announcement turned Miss Richard’s language arts class…
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News Cars Observe the Fourth Commandment, or Do They?
Self-driving cars. Can they drive themselves to shul? And if they can, are they part of the minyan?
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News Barack Obama Caption Competition
When Barack Obama went to visit Jane Eisner at the Sheldon Adelson Backward White House, our photographers were on hand to capture the moment. We asked our readers what they were saying or thinking and we had literally tens of responses. We are delighted to announce the winner of the caption competition, who wins an…
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News Y.U. Comes Up With Shortlist To Replace Richard Joel
As the flagship institution of American Modern Orthodoxy is looking for a new president, a number of prominent rabbis — including Shmuley Boteach and Jonathan Sacks — have been overlooked. “We are looking for someone with the right qualifications,” said a university spokesman. “We need someone who can work with the Torah-observant community but who…
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News Top 10 Badass Mah Jongg Jews
Former Forward staffer, Grumpy Jeffrey Goldberg, thinks that lists of Jews are a bad idea, just because a few white supremacists enjoy using them. And also, because they don’t always include him and/or Natalie Portman. That’s ridiculous. First of all, Natalie Portman blew a lot of list-ability with “No Strings Attached.” And his logic is…
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