Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Jew vs. Jew in Germany
The Economist offers an interesting look at Germany’s Jewish community, which has grown dramatically thanks to an influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. But it is a community deeply divided, between the native German Jews and the Russian-speaking newcomers, who now make up more than 90% of the population. The Economist reports: As…
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Israel News The JDL, TMZ and the WGA
Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel may be crossing the picket lines, but the Writers Guild of America is getting support from a surprising quarter: the Jewish Defense League, the fringe group founded by assassinated firebrand rabbi Meir Kahane. It all started when the JDL went after one of America’s biggest movie stars. In…
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Life JVoices Announces End to Its Own Writers’ Strike
I recently engaged in some good-natured ribbing of the lefty blog JVoices over its announcement that it would cease publishing for the duration of the writers’ strike as an act of solidarity. I may have thought the JVoices gesture was a little bit silly, but, I must confess, I never expected that the big Hollywood…
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Life Jonah Goldberg Has Lost His Mind
National Review contributor and L.A. Times columnist Jonah Goldberg is coming out with a new book: “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.” From the publisher’s book description on Amazon.com: Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics….
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News A Bronfman for Huckabee?
The New York Post reports: Mike Huckabee is being backed by a bizarre upstate group that has been denounced as a cult, The Post has learned. Records show Huckabee raked in $20,000 from Sara Bronfman, the Seagram liquor heiress and high-profile devotee of the NXIVM group. Bronfman made the donation to Hope for America, a…
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Life The Rabbis Said Choose: You Can Be an Olympian or a Jew — But Not Both
Benjamin Ish-Shalom, head of Israel’s Joint Conversion Institute, recently gave an interview to The Jewish Week that should makes one’s blood boil. Ish-Shalom’s institute is the product of a collaboration between different streams of Judaism that has worked to help facilitate the conversion of the large numbers of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who…
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Life Kristol’s a Timesman
The New York Times has hired Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol to write a weekly column for its Op Ed page. It seems, however, that not everyone is pleased with the paper’s decision to bring on the neo-con chieftain and outspoken Iraq War backer. The Web site Politico reports that news of the hire “caused…
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Life Israel’s ‘Non-Jewish Jews’
The JTA has a great story on the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who came to Israel under its Law of Return, and yet are not officially regarded as Jews by the state because their mothers are not Jewish. They live in Jewish society, many have Jewish ancestry and identify…
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