Dan Levin
By Dan Levin
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Israel News Spitz: Gold Medal Pouter
Usually it’s Jewish mothers who boast and brag about their children’s accomplishments. A big ego on a nice Jewish boy, however, is rather unbecoming. Mark Spitz — who is “considered the Greatest Olympic athlete of all-time” and whose name “is synonymous with excellence” (according to his Web site) — may be about to have his…
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News Amid Beijing’s Boom, a Jewish Community Blooms
Beijing — The Chabad House here sits at the end of a quiet street in an upscale gated community just inside this city’s Fourth Ring road and down the block from the Israeli Embassy. A caged duck and a stroller guard the entrance, as does a small army of young Chinese men who patrol the…
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Israel News Must See TV: 1 vs. 99 + Shmuley
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, host of the Learning Channel’s “Shalom in the Home” and author of “Kosher Sex,” recently added a few feathers to his multimedia hat. The bearded Hasidic rabbi logged a stint as a celebrity guest on NBC’s game show “1 vs. 100” and won $10,000, which he plans to donate to Jewish Family…
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Culture Day Schools Seek Solutions to Leadership Crisis
First, the good news: The number of students in Jewish day schools has risen 11% nationwide in the past five years, and 83 new schools have opened their doors in the same period. Now the bad news: There are not enough heads of school to lead these educational institutions. Across the religious spectrum, Jewish day…
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Israel News Merry Christmas, Now Die
Last year superstore chain Wal-Mart enraged religious conservatives by instructing employees to wish customers “Happy Holidays.” Well, ’tis the season to be jolly — Wal-Mart switched back to “Merry Christmas” and now Christian conservatives are happy. This year it is liberals who are protesting — over Wal-Mart’s decision to stock on its shelves the Evangelical…
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Israel News Clicking Toward a Pastime of Yore
A California-based Web site is putting a new spin on Hanukkah this year, not with dreidels but with many a Jewish grandmother’s favorite pastime: mah jongg. Starting after the Sabbath ends on Saturday, December 16, and continuing nightly through Saturday, December 23, the Web site mahjongtime.com will host the first-ever online Hanukkah mah jongg tournament….
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Israel News Lubavitcher To Pull Stunts For Charity
To help raise money for his annual Hanukkah charity telethon, Anchelle Perl, Lubavitch emissary to the Long Island, N.Y., town of Mineola, has taken a page from Evel Knievel’s handbook. Alongside performances by the band Shlock Rock and the so-called “Dancing Rabbis,” Perl will take a turn as history’s first Hasidic “stunt man” in an…
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News Häagen-Dazs Creator Ruth Mattus, 90
Rose Mattus, a longtime Jewish philanthropist and one of the creators of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, died November 28 in Westwood, N.J., at the age of 90. Mattus grew up in Poland and moved to Brooklyn with her family in 1921. She married a distant cousin, Reuben, in 1936, and together they started making ice cream,…
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