Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life New York’s Collective Mouth Watering, Stomach Growling — We Want Our 2nd Ave. Deli!
The Big Apple has been in a funk ever since the famed 2nd Avenue Deli closed its doors two years ago. Now, as the Forward just reported, it’s set to reopen, on 33rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenue. (It may be a slightly ridiculous location for the 2nd Avenue Deli, but I’m not complaining,…
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Life Two Boys, Two First Train Rides
Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, thinks American Jews should “more deeply dwell on what previous Jewish generations had to endure.” He makes his point via a very moving and beautifully told story in The Jerusalem Post. Any attempt I would make at synopsis, I fear, wouldn’t do it…
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Culture Norman Finkelstein in Coney Island: ‘It’s Like Death’
New York magazine catches up with anti-Israel polemicist and now ex-academic Norman Finkelstein. Having been given the boot by DePaul University, it turns out he’s now living in Coney Island! Ben Harris reports for New York Magazine: At 54, Norman Finkelstein is pretty much back where he started. This summer, the leftist scholar—who made a…
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Life Only in New York: Hanukkah Subway Attack Was a Multi-Ethnic Mash-up
I never thought that there would be a Hanukkah-related brawl on my favorite subway line — let alone one that would dominate the front pages of New York’s tabloids. As the alleged victims of the attack tell the story to the Daily News, the four of them boarded a Brooklyn-bound Q-train after celebrating Hanukkah at…
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Culture Eighth Night Yid Vid: The War on Christmas
The video’s maker explains: So, every year my school holds a door-decorating contest at Christmas time. This year, the plan was to have me make this Christmas vs. Hanukkah space battle animation, and play it on a laptop attached to the door, while also projecting a neat light effect onto some thin paper over the…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Who’s a Hellenist?, Kabbalah Centre Reconsidered, Stripping for Charity
TARSY SPLITS: After facing down Abe Foxman over the Armenian genocide issue, getting fired for it and then being reinstated following the ensuing uproar, the ADL’s New England regional director, Andrew Tarsy, is stepping down. Boston’s Jewish Advocate has the story. WHO’S A HELLENIST?: Writing in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish Press, Rabbi Gil Student says you…
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Culture Seventh Night Yid Vid: We Are All Jelly Donuts
Israeli machismo died in Ramat Poleg.
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Culture Sixth Night Yid Vid: Yidcore Channels Adam Sandler
For more on Australia’s greatest Jewish punk band, read this and this.
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