Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Culture Going Green, McKinney Announces White House Bid
A former member of Congress who has had a famously combative relationship with the Jewish community is jumping into the presidential race. Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney — a former Democrat formerly of Georgia — has announced her intention to run for president with the Green Party. She made her announcement via video: McKinney joins a…
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Life Yid Vid: Adam Sandler as Mossad-Agent-Turned-Hairdresser
So Sandler has made a film in which he plays a crack Mossad agent who decides to move to New York to be a hairdresser. Weird? Yes. Profound? Maybe. Sandler, in my humble opinion, perfectly captured the zeitgeist of American Jewry in “50 First Dates,” the film in which he wooed an amnesiac Drew Barrymore….
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Life Cooking Up a Clever Protest Strategy
The headline from Ha’aretz says it all: “Falafel recipe painted on West Bank fence as part of protest.” The Jerusalem Post, it so happens, has an equally odd story today: “Sisters stumble upon remains of Roman soldier on beach.”
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Life Adlerstein vs. Angel on Conversion
Last month, Rabbi Marc Angel, rabbi emeritus of New York’s historic Congregation Shearith Israel, penned an impassioned critique of the adoption of new — and, he argued, needlessly restrictive — conversion policies by the Rabbinical Council of America, an organization he once served as its president. The article generated plenty of discussion in the Orthodox…
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Life Loving Israel’s ‘Bazaar of the Bizarre’
Jacob Savage has penned a colorful love letter to Israel’s most maligned building: Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. He writes: Subcultures have embraced various corners of the building. Some storefronts are exclusively in Thai, some in Russian, some in English. Of course there is Hebrew, which in much of the station seems almost like an…
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Life Yoffie on Shabbat, Muslim-Jewish Dialogue, Health Care and Israel
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, had an ambitious agenda for his synagogue movement’s biennial meeting. In his speech to the gathering, he urged a renewed commitment to Shabbat observance among Reform Jews, called for a deepening of dialogue with North American Muslims, pushed universal health care and issued an impassioned…
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News Joe for John: Lieberman Endorses McCain
Joseph Lieberman has crossed the aisle to endorse the presidential candidacy of his good friend — and fellow Senate Iraq war hawk — John McCain. The two have plenty in common — including a willingness to buck their parties on occasion: Lieberman on Iraq, and other issues; McCain on global warming, campaign finance reform and…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Iranian Jews Intermarry, Hanukkah in Antarctica, Anti-Anti-Israel Students
WHERE ARE TODAY’S HESCHELS?: Luminaries look back on the legacy of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on the centennial of his birth. The New York Jewish Week was on the scene. Also in the Jewish Week: A new downtown home for Makor — the pioneering Upper West Side cultural institution — is delayed; and upstart rabbinical…
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