Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life The Jewish Burka Comes to Brooklyn
In Israel, as I noted earlier this year, a renegade group of Haredi women has taken to one-upping the already increasingly severe modesty standards of their community by donning Muslim-style burkas. The trend was apparently initiated by a female spiritual leader in the ultra-Orthodox stronghold of Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet. The fashion trend, which has…
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Life Why Do I Have a German Last Name? And Other Mysteries of Jewish Onomatology
This month’s Moment magazine has a fascinating article by David Zax explaining the origins of Jewish surnames. For instance, I always wondered why so many Eastern European Jews have German last names, many drawn from a fairly small set of surnames that are considered distinctively Jewish. Zax’s article offers some answers: Portraits of Emperor Joseph…
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Life Yid Vid: Looking for Jewish Comedians in All the Wrong Places
To borrow the words of a famous Jewish comedian: pretty, pretty, pretty good! Hat tip: L.A. Jewish Journal. (I don’t know how we got scooped on this one given the Forward’s longstanding association with a certain Jewish comedian who’s featured prominently in this video.)
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Life Hagee Has His Say
JTA’s Ami Eden poses some questions via e-mail to controversial Christians United for Israel founder Pastor John Hagee, who has been accused of being anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim and, by some, even antisemitic (and, by me, of being too philosemitic for his own good). Here’s part of the Q&A: You have been attacked by liberal Jews who…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: California’s Camel Farm, Portrait of the Artist as Hitler, Python-Eating Jewish Cannibals?
CONVERSION DEFECTION: A new, more strict conversion policy adopted by the Rabbinical Council of America has already prompted some leading Modern Orthodox rabbis to set up their own rabbinic organization and threaten to set up their own conversion courts. Now, a member of the RCA committee that fashioned the conversion policy, leading New York Orthodox…
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Life Eliot Spitzer as Alexander Portnoy
The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber writes: I’ve been racking my brain for a character profile that would shed light on what the hell happened with Eliot Spitzer, and the only thing I’m coming up with is … Alexander Portnoy, the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity for the City of New York (and anti-hero of Philip…
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Life Spitzer Scandal’s Israeli Connection, Etc.
The man who is accused of being the ringleader of the prostitution ring that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer apparently patronized was found with an Israeli passport in his apartment, the Associated Press reports. Mark Brener, 62, of Cliffside Park, N.J., is being held without bail after the passport and $600,000 in cash were found…
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Life Israelis Could Learn Something From Prince Harry
Back in 2005, Prince Harry sparked widespread outrage by wearing a Nazi armband to a costume party. Although he quickly apologized for the stunt, the incident only served to confirm his reputation as a black sheep of the British royal family. What a difference three years makes. Now, Harry has shaped up into a model…
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