Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life The Jewish Jackson Angle: King of Pop’s Kids Are MOT’s
The JTA has the following story: “Jackson kids’ Jewish mother could regain custody,” which notes: Reports are conflicting over whether the Jewish mother of two of the late Michael Jackson’s children will seek custody. Jackson, the “King of Pop” who died Friday of unspecified causes, and Debbie Rowe are the parents of Prince Michael I,…
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Life Finding Michael Jackson in Genesis
Even as we adjust to a world without Michael Jackson, we’re still left grappling with the question of how to understand the gifted and bizarre “King of Pop.” A few years back in the pages of the Forward, Ami Eden offered up some insights, drawing upon what might seem like an unlikely source: the Book…
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Life Talk About Media Bias! (And Talk About Robotic Snakes!)
Listen to this ABC newsreader cheerily predicting that Israeli combat units “could eventually be destroyed.” But don’t dash off that outraged press release just yet Camera! It was an innocent slip-up. The news reader meant to say “deployed,” not “destroyed,” and quickly corrected herself. The segment was about a six-foot-long, remote-controlled robotic snake that the…
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Life Rev. Wright: Oops, I Meant ‘Zionists’
Real Clear Politics reports: Reverend Jeremiah Wright corrected his comments in which he said “Jews” were not allowing him to speak with President Obama. Wright says he “misspoke” and it is actually the “Zionists” who are preventing him from talking with the President. It was Martin Luther King Jr. who wrote: “When people criticize Zionism,…
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Life Livni: ‘Close Your Eyes, and Vote’
The Associated Press reports on some strange voting advice from Kadima leader Tzipi Livni: After casting her vote at a Tel Aviv polling station, Livni called on Israelis to do the same despite stormy weather. “I have just done what I want every citizen in Israel to do — first of all to get out…
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Israel News NY Times’ Kosher Cookie Craze
The Sulzbergers may daven Episcopalian, but the newspaper they own has a surprising interest in the kosher status of Girl Scout cookies. In the New York edition of the January 24 New York Times — on the same page as a revelation about the motive in a 42-year-old double murder — appeared a news report…
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Life ‘Schmooz Me Timbers!’: John Derbyshire’s Jewish Pirate Lexicon
Arrrr. National Review’s John Derbyshire was inspired by the new book “Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean” to get cracking on fleshing out the concept of Jewish pirate culture. “What do they say? What are they called?” He came up with a couple ideas, among them “Yo ho ho an’ a bottle of Manischewitz…” Readers weighed…
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Life Human Rights Watch Head Surveys the Gaza Battlefield
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, paints a not very pretty picture of Israeli actions during the latest Gaza war. Writing in Forbes, he scores the IDF on the following points: Targeting: Part of the problem was the IDF’s expansive definition of a military target. It attacked a range of civilian facilities, from…
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