Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life An Interfaith Bridge, Built From Krullers
This Sunday’s New York Times featured a heartwarming story of a Muslim man from Egypt and an Orthodox Jewish woman from Borough Park who built a beautiful business partnership out of two Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in Brooklyn. Since their religions share an antipathy toward pig-consumption, they gave away all their profits from pork products, “hers…
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Life Searching for Peace? No, Sex (and Shakshuka)
Ck, the fellow behind the wonderful blog Jewlicious, has been analyzing his site’s Web stats — and he’s made some interesting findings about what Palestinians are searching for: In the past year, Jewlicious has recorded 1262 visits from what Google calls the Palestinian Territories. What sort of insight might we be able to gain from…
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Opinion The Charter School Temptation
Florida’s Ben Gamla Charter School is more than just a place of learning. It represents a radical new vision for the future of Jewish education in America. The Ben Gamla school, which opened this summer, is the country’s first publicly funded, Hebrew-themed charter school. Its founder, former Democratic congressman Peter Deutsch, has said he wants…
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Life ‘Jews 1, Nazis 0’
That’s the score, according to anti-fascist demonstrators who blocked a neo-Nazi march through Prague’s Jewish quarter on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The JTA has a nice story on the demonstrations.
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Chabon on Israel, Kushner on Mamet, Redford on ‘Tikkun Olam’
For those religious readers of this column, I apologize for not writing one last week. We were super-busy week with the Forward 50. Hope you enjoy this week’s edition! KILLER’S CULT: New York Jewish Week Israel correspondent Michele Chabin looks at the campaign to free Yitzhak Rabin’s murderer. Also in the Jewish Week: Editor Gary…
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Life Mayim, Mayim, Mayim, Mayim
The JTA reports: A thousand Orthodox rabbis are sending an emissary to Atlanta to pray for rain. Rabbi Yehuda Levin will perform an ancient prayer ritual Wednesday seeking divine help to end the drought in the South, the Christian Newswire reported. Levin reportedly performed the ritual in 1986, after which there was four days of…
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Life Yid Vid: Jerry Seinfeld vs. Larry King
Which is more obnoxious: Larry King’s refusal to prepare for interviews or Jerry Seinfeld’s thin skin?
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Life Are Jewish Smarts All in the Genes?
Is Jewish intelligence genetic? Slate’s William Saletan, who recently attended a panel discussion on the topic, doesn’t want to think so. Still, he grudgingly admits: A culture that trains its young people to procreate only with one another becomes, over time, a genetically distinct population. And if that culture glorifies intelligence to such a degree…
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