Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Jews With Guns, Elie Wiesel Testifies, Winehouse’s Kosher Spree
ALL WE ARE SAYING, IS GIVE ISRAEL A CHANCE: Some Jewish activists are complaining that the city-sponsored Cambridge Peace Commission in Harvard University’s uber-liberal hometown is biased against Israel. Boston’s Jewish Advocate has the story. RABBINATE TUG-OF-WAR: New York Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt chats with Rabbi Benjamin Lau, a prominent religious Zionist who is…
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Life Dept. of Mountains Out of Molehills: Reggie Jackson’s Jewish Joke
So baseball great Reggie Jackson, haggling with an artist over a painting, jokingly asked him, “Are you Jewish?” A foolish comment, made all the more foolish by the fact that it was made in earshot of a New York Post video camera. The cameraman followed up by asking Jackson why he said that, to which…
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Life How Does Morris Talansky Do Business?
Does the Long Island rabbi at the center of Israel’s investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have some serious skeletons in his closet? New York Magazine has obtained “a transcript of secret tapes” that, it reports, suggests that Rabbi Morris Talansky has threatened business associates in the past.
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Israel News Thumbs Up for ‘Wall-E’? Ed Koch Dissents
The critics agree: “Wall-E,” the animated summer blockbuster about a cute robot collecting garbage in the aftermath of a man-made environmental apocalypse, is a fantastic film. Okay, maybe not all of them agree. “Ridiculous,” former New York City mayor Ed Koch wrote of the critical raves for “Wall-E.” Koch, who reviews movies for the Manhattan…
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Music Heeb-ish, Not Jewish
The hipster humorists at Heeb Magazine are taking their cool cultural gestalt out West, organizing a music festival in Oakland, Calif. But, they want to be clear, it’s not a Jewish music festival. San Francisco’s always informative (albeit unfortunately named) Jewish newsweekly J. reports that the “Heeb fest won’t include any Jewish programming or content,…
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Life Yid Vid: Yael Naim Does Britney Spears
The new issue of Heeb Magazine has a nice interview with Mac-made musical sensation Yael Naim. From it I learned that the Israeli-born singer, best-known for her brilliant “New Soul,” does a live cover of Britney Spears’s “Toxic.” “I wanted to take something far from what I enjoy and make it mine,” Naim tells Heeb….
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Life Yid Vid: Adam Sandler Doesn’t Even Like Hummus!
There was nary a review of Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” that didn’t mention the movie’s steady stream of hummus jokes. The irony is that, as the following shocking video reveals, Sandler doesn’t even like hummus. And when he appeared to be eating the mashed-chickpea spread in the film, he was actually…
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Life The Haredim Are Right!: Topless DJ’s Shouldn’t Be Used To Sell Deodorant
Ha’aretz reports: A recent marketing campaign for Unilever’s Axe deodorant for men raised the hackles of the ultra-Orthodox community when the corporation sponsored a poolside party for teens, DJed by a topless Hungarian disc jockey flown in for the event, and attended by other partially-clad young women. Unsurprisingly, despite Unilever’s written apology to the Haredi…
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