Brian Schaefer
By Brian Schaefer
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Breaking News Household Worker Awarded $31K for ‘Humiliation’ by Sara Netanyahu
— A former employee of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Residence was awarded some $31,000 by a Jerusalem labor court for mistreatment at the hands of the prime minister’s wife. It was the second time this year the Jerusalem District Labor Court had ruled against Sara Netanyahu in an employment abuse case. On Tuesday, the court found in favor…
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The Schmooze Neo-Nazis Salute ‘Aryan Goddess’ Taylor Swift
(JTA) — Taylor Swift may look every bit the all-American girl-next-door, but according to white supremacists, she’s actually a Nazi at heart, feeding her legions of followers racist messages coated in the saccharine lyrics and sick beats of Grammy-winning songs. The Vice blog Broadly explored the extent and origins of that conspiracy theory in a…
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Breaking News Israel Opposition Issues Dire Warnings on ‘Dangerous’ Avigdor Lieberman
(JTA) — Avigdor Liberman’s appointment as Israel’s defense minister was quickly condemned by opposition lawmakers, who warned of a severe fallout at home and abroad. “The citizens of Israel should be worried about a rightist coalition that will bring Israel to very dangerous places,” said opposition leader Isaac Herzog at an event Wednesday hosted by the Israel Democracy…
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The Schmooze Is Ivanka Trump the Donald’s Brainy (Jewish) Better Half?
(JTA) — Ivanka is to Donald Trump as Lisa is to Homer Simpson: brainy, composed and unflinchingly loyal to her outrageous and unpredictable father. At least that’s the portrait painted in a Politico article published Thursday. The article explores the relationship between the Republican presidential frontrunner and the daughter who has managed to grow up gracefully…
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The Schmooze How Oliver Sacks Died Craving Gefilte Fish
(JTA) — On August 30, at age 82, noted neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks died after succumbing to a cancer that first plagued him nearly a decade ago, paused, and recently reappeared. One of his last essays, published posthumously, appears in the September 14 issue of The New Yorker and is, surprisingly, an ode…
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Breaking News Ethel Rosenberg’s Sons Plead for Pardon for Mom
(JTA) — Honor thy father and mother, says the Torah. In the case of the sons of convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, that means requesting a presidential pardon. Brothers Michael and Robert Meeropol penned an op-ed in the New York Times Monday asking President Barack Obama to acknowledge that their mother, Ethel Rosenberg, was…
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Culture Romance Novel About Nazi Guard and Concentration Camp Inmate Has Everyone Angry
(JTA) — German thinker Theodor Adorno famously stated that it’s barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz, but he said nothing about romance novels. For author Kate Breslin, the Holocaust apparently provided just the right amount of narrative tension for her new book “For Such a Time,” inspired by the Book of Esther. The novel, which…
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Life Reinserting Women into the Holocaust Narrative
Jewish women in Budapest, October 1944. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons (Haaretz) – On October 7, 1944, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz blew up a crematorium in an attempted revolt that, while ultimately futile, has become a powerful rebuttal to the claim that Jews succumbed to the Nazis without a fight. Many know this story but few…
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