Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Were Babs and Bobby Buddies?
The New York Times has an interesting article on the recently deceased chess genius and Jewish antisemite Bobby Fischer. The Times tracks down Joseph Virovatz, a Holocaust survivor and fellow chess player who was a longtime friend of Fischer’s. In Fischer’s younger days, the two would eat Hungarian food together on the Lower East Side….
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Foxman Noodges Obama, Endogamy’s Ticking Clock, Britain’s ‘Lobby’ Lashers
FOXMAN NOODGES OBAMA: The Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman may have hailed Barack Obama for repudiating his church magazine’s decision to honor Louis Farrakhan. But Foxman tells the New York Jewish Week that Obama should go further in distancing himself from his church’s controversial minister, Jeremiah Wright. “He’s distanced himself from his pastor’s decision to honor…
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News The Campaign Blogging Continues… Over at the Bintel Blog
The Forward’s campaign blogging is moving over to our Bintel Blog.
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Life Yid Vid: Hava Nagila Without Borders
The fun folks over at Jewlicious have assembled a quartet of YouTube videos that testify to the universal appeal of that beloved Jewish standard, Hava Nagila. There are renditions from Thailand, India, Britain and Texas. The Thai one is my personal favorite, but it’s been making its way around cyberspace for quite sometime, so here’s…
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Film & TV Woody Allen’s New York, RIP
For the past half-decade, New York City has been consumed by a frenzy of greed. A whirlwind of out-of-context development, anarchic “architecture” and a virus-like proliferation of chain stores that has ravaged the cityscape. Property owners, not satisfied with rents and property values that have already soared into the stratosphere, instead are all too often…
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Life Is ‘Stop Snitching’ a Jewish Value?
The L.A. Jewish Journal’s Amy Klein has a great in-depth article on the alleged money-laundering and tax-fraud scheme that has resulted in the indictment of leaders of the Spinka Hasidic sect. Reporting from both coasts, and visiting the Spinka sect’s home base in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, Klein tackles a number of interesting…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Missing Matzoh, Defending Hyphens, Folk Fest Feud
HERESY OR ERROR?: The New York Jewish Week follows up on the debate prompted by an Israeli rabbinic court’s refusal to convert a man who reportedly believes the late Lubavitcher rebbe is the messiah. MISSING MATZOH: Something has vanished from the shelves of the kosher sections of American supermarkets. “Customers looking for Manischewitz matzah and…
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Life Gandhi’s Grandson: Israel, Jews ‘Biggest Players’ in ‘Culture of Violence’
Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Arun Gandhi contributed the following bit of profundity to The Washington Post’s online conversation on religion: Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience – a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay…
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