Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Scottish Pro-Palestinian Activists Gear Up To Protest… Goldie Hawn
Scotland’s Daily Record reports: HOLLYWOOD A-lister Goldie Hawn will walk into a storm of protest when she visits Scotland this weekend. Campaigners are outraged she has agreed to attend Sunday’s fundraising banquet for the Jewish National Fund at Glasgow’s Hilton Hotel. John Wight, spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: “She will get a very…
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Life Guardian Editor: Sorry About That 9/11-Jenin Comparison
The editor of Britain’s left-wing Guardian newspaper is saying sorry for a 2002 editorial that argued that “Israel’s actions in Jenin were every bit as repellent as Osama Bin Laden’s attack on New York on September 11.” The editorial came in the wake of Israel’s military incursions into the Jenin, which sparked media reports —…
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Music Rabbis Against Concerts
I’m a little late to the game on this one, so I’ll summarize in brief: A couple weeks ago the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Hamodia published a statement from 33 ultra-Orthodox rabbis — including some of the American haredi community’s most respected figures — prohibiting attendance at a planned charity fund-raising concert at Madison Square Garden’s WaMu…
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Music Matisyahu’s New ’Do
Reggae sensation Matisyahu made waves last year when he revealed that he was no longer affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic sect. Since then, he has been davening at a shul affiliated with the Karliner Hasidim, who are known for screaming their prayers. Now, it appears, his new spiritual orientation is starting to show in his…
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Life Does John Hagee Love Jews Too Much for His Own Good?
One thing that’s easy to miss in the brouhaha over McCain endorser Pastor John Hagee’s supposed anti-Catholicism is the context in which he made his controversial remarks. Many of the remarks that have been pointed to by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights chief Bill Donohue as evidence of the pastor’s anti-Catholicism were made…
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Life Birthright Israel’s Palestinian Doppelganger
Palestinian nationalism emerged in response to Zionism, so it’s not entirely surprising that Birthright Israel would eventually get a Palestinian doppelganger. The Jerusalem Post reports: A new Palestinian NGO is taking a page out of the Jewish educator’s handbook in its search to strengthen the connection of Palestinians overseas to their “historic homeland” and Palestinian…
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Life Does Commentary Know Its Readers?
If you subscribe to National Geographic, you can get a free gift: a wall-size map of the Earth. It makes sense. After all, National Geographic knows its readers are geography junkies. But does Commentary think its readers are terrorism junkies?
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Life Obama and Israel: The Verdict From the Jewish Weeklies
The unease in some sectors of the Jewish community about how Barack Obama would handle U.S. policy toward Israel has been a hot story for Jewish newspapers, and this past week several of their editors weighed in on the ongoing communal jibber-jabber. The New Jersey Jewish News’s Andrew Silow-Carroll says that some pro-Israel voters want…
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