Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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News Dems, Huckabee Blast Saudi Justice
The Saudis are getting a lashing from Democratic presidential hopefuls for the recent sentencing of a 19-year-old gang-rape victim to 200 lashes for “adultery.” Taking on the Saudis has long been a popular tack for Democrats, given the cozy relations between the House of Saud and the House of Bush. This time around, leading Democratic…
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Life To Be Thankful, or Not to Be Thankful for Thanksgiving — That Is the Question
For most American Jews, Thanksgiving is a no-brainer. You get together with family, you eat — what’s not to like? Well, it turns out, Rabbi Jill Jacobs — who writes consistently thoughtful posts for Jewish Funds for Justice’s blog JSpot — is no fan of the holiday. But unlike some ultra-Orthodox Jews (see this article…
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Life ‘Sunday School in a Box’
San Francisco’s amusingly named Jewish weekly, J., has an amusing story about a new Jewish quiz game that you can play at home called “Given.” It begins as follows: The Newtons had a Shabbat routine. Every Saturday, Erik quizzed his two sons about Jewish ideas, customs and prayers. “It made us feel more Jewish,” said…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Cleveland’s Chinese Jews, Baltimore’s ‘Batman,’ St. Louis’s Reform Catholics
DEAR JEW: New Jersey Jewish News editor Andrew Silow Carroll makes like ‘Ask a Mexican’ columnist Gustavo Arellano. CHINESE ARE JEWS, TOO: The Cleveland Jewish News speaks with five Chinese children who were adopted by local Jewish families and are now near bar and bat mitzvah age. SARAH’S SIS: Comedian Sarah Silverman’s rabbi sister spills…
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Life Don’t Worry Striking Writers, JVoices Is Right Behind You
In a development that could help tip the scales in the ongoing writers’ strike, an obscure Jewish blog has weighed in on the side of the scribes — and done so forcefully. The blog, JVoices, is following the lead of a number of TV-related blogs that suspended publication for a day in solidarity with the…
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Culture Yid Vid: A Marxist Take on the Writers’ Strike
Groucho not Karl. Hat tip: Jewschool.
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Life ‘The Single Most Effective Non-Jewish Exponent of Judaism in the Entire World’
Who is it? According to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, it’s his longtime friend, Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Writing in The Jerusalem Post, Boteach tells the story (which, granted, he’s told many times before) of his friendship with Booker. The prompt for this iteration is, apparently, that Booker called up Boteach last week, because he was headed…
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Life Roseanne’s Reflections
Roseanne cares about being Jewish. There’s no doubt about that. On her blog the comic legend reflects frequently on Judaism, Jewish identity and Israel. Sometimes the posts are short. Sometimes they’re long. Consistently they’re more than a little bit wacky. Here’s two of her latest posts, in full: bill kristol brings shame on all jews…
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