Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Israel News ‘Rabbi’ of Baseball Sent Back to the Farm
Baseball’s “rabbi” has lost his Major League smicha. San Francisco Giants outfielder Brian Horwitz got his big-league career off to a strong start. After his first 14 at-bats, the 25-year-old rookie was hitting .429 with two home runs, four runs batted in and five runs scored. His teammates dubbed him “the Rabbi,” and Jewish fans…
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Life Rahm Emanuel: First Jewish Speaker of the House?
Politico examines the ambitions of Democratic powerbroker Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who is considered a possible Senate successor to Barack Obama in the event that the Illinois Democrat is elected president in November. But Emanuel insists that he’s not interested in Obama’s Senate seat , which, Politico notes, begs the question, “What does Rahm really want,…
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Life Slàn, Irish Jewry?
The Jerusalem Post reports: The future of the Jewish community in Ireland is bleak, as its committed members age and the young immigrate to other European countries and Israel, according to Dr. Rory Miller, senior lecturer at King’s College in London. UPDATE: Commenter Arieh Lebowitz helpfully noted that my original headline for this item (“Slàn,…
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Life The Exchange: Perspective and Prayer
The Associated Press has sent out a summary of some past prisoner exchanges between Israel and its enemies. It’s useful context in light of today’s swap. (Hat tip: Jewlicious) Meanwhile, Jewschool posts a prayer for Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
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Life And the Creepy Headline Award Goes to…
…JTA for “Jolie’s Jewish ob-gyn speaks”. Okay, fairness demands that I note that the longer version of the headline is made a little less creepy by the preface, “Tales from the Crib:” But it’s the shorter version that displays on JTA’s home page. I do have to give JTA credit, however, for slyly incorporating the…
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Life Jews and Tattoos…
…is the subject of an article in The New York Times.
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Life The Real ‘Jewish Jordan’ Is Headed to Israel
Lakers guard Jordan Farmar is headed to the holy land. L.A. Jewish Journal blogger Brad Greenberg — who has, quite literally, dubbed Farmar “the Jewish Jordan” — reports: Jordan Farmar, the Lakers back-up point guard and the NBA’s best Jewish player (the bar is admittedly low), will travel to Israel next month to run basketball…
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Life A New Spin on ‘the Jews Were Behind 9/11’ Accusation
L.A. Jewish Journal G-d Blogger Brad Greenberg discovers a Pakistani Web site that (using some fairly dubious logic) argues that Osama Bin-Laden himself is one of us.
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