Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Koch on Buckley/Baker, Adding/Removing Swastikas, Judy Chicago’s Gaon/Ancestor
DIVIDED WE STAND: The New York Jewish Week’s Gary Rosenblatt looks at the growing divide between Orthodox and other Jews. AT YOUR SERVICE: Israel’s Arab citizens like a new national service program — even if their leaders don’t. The Jewish Week has the story. KOCH ON BUCKLEY: Former New York City mayor Ed Koch remembers…
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News Barack Obama’s Jewish YouTube Campaign
Barack Obama’s campaign is taking its Jewish outreach strategy to YouTube with a pair of videos of him talking about Israel. The first video is a recorded message to the people of Sderot, which was shown at the recent “Live for Sderot” fund-raiser in Los Angeles: The second features excerpts of his recent remarks to…
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Film & TV Brooks and Black on Blondes and Bar Mitzvahs
The New York Post’s Page Six features these two celebrity quotes today: “”YES, I have always loved a good blonde, and who wouldn’t?” — Mel Brooks “PART of the bar mitzvah is that you become a man supposedly at 13 years old. And as I was a man, I decided never to go to a…
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Life Is Bloomberg’s Right-Hand Man Hinting His Boss Would Play a Good Second Fiddle?
Last week, my colleague Aram David posted about a Daily News opinion article that made the case for why Michael Bloomberg would make an ideal running mate for Barack Obama. The question, of course, is whether the billionaire mayor would want to be anyone’s second fiddle. Now, however, key Bloomberg aide (and longtime shadow presidential…
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Life Was Shakespeare a Jewish Woman?
Social theorist John Hudson seems to think so. He should tell these people. Hat tip: Jewcy
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Life (UPDATED) And the Award for ‘Truly Horrible Choice of Words’ Goes to…
…Israel’s widely respected deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai, for warning that “Palestinians will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves.” UPDATE: National Review Online’s Tom Gross says that this quote is the result of a mistranslated, and points a finger with Reuters: In fact Vilnai said…
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Life I Heart Ha’aretz’s ‘Family Affair’
The Ha’aretz Magazine’s “Family Affair” column is one of my favorite regular journalism features. Each column looks at a different Israeli family — some ordinary, some less so — and probes their lives, their dreams, their beliefs, their values, their family histories. As watchers of reality TV know, glancing into the lives of others has…
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Life Sly’s for Sderot
The stars came out to support for Sderot this week. The L.A. Jewish Journal’s Dikla Kadosh was at the “Live For Sderot” concert/fundraiser at the Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills. Also in attendance, she reported, were Sylvester Stallone, Mayim Bialik, Maria Conchita Alonzo, Valerie Harper and Hollywood’s No. 1 Judeophile, Jon Voight. (Ha’aretz has video…
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