Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life How Not To Negotiate Peace
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports: An adviser to Mahmoud Abbas said the Kotel should be under Palestinian control. Adnan Husseini, aide to the Palestinian Authority president, said Thursday that Palestinian demands for Israel to cede eastern Jerusalem under any peace accord also includes the Western Wall. “This is part of Islamic heritage that cannot be…
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Life Office Romance Is Kosher (at Least at the JCC)
In an article titled “Boss’s Memo: Go Ahead, Date (With My Blessing),” The New York Times reports that workplace romance, once frowned upon, is increasingly accepted. “That some people believe they can openly date co-workers without endangering their job reflects what those who study the workplace and several surveys suggest: the conventional wisdom about dating…
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Life Yid Vid: His Socalled Video
Hip-hop-and-Yiddish fusionist Socalled’s new video for his song ” You Are Never Alone” is really, really weird (and actually kind of gross). But it’s also proven to be really, really popular: In the past nine days, it has been viewed a staggering 666,496 times on YouTube: The Montreal-based Socalled (aka Josh Dolgin) makes some amazingly…
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Music Matisyahu Bids Chabad Adieu
The JTA reports: Orthodox Jewish reggae sensation Matisyahu is leaving the Chabad movement. “I am no longer identified with Chabad,” the American singer told Ha’aretz this week during a private visit to Israel. “Today it’s more important to me to connect to a universal message.” Born Matthew Miller, Matisyahu embraced Orthodox Judaism while studying in…
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Life Don’t Call Us ‘Kosher’
Former Forward hand Max Gross looks into the state of kosher wine — only, he discovers, some vintners are playing down the fact that they happen to adhere to Jewish religious law. Writing on Jewcy.com, Gross reports: Recanati wine is desperately trying to pass for gentile. First off, there’s the name. Nothing about “Recanati” sounds…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: From Russia With Hate, JDate’s ‘Pro-Semites,’ Movie Mogul and Rabbi Rater
FROM RUSSIA WITH HATE?: New York’s Russian-speaking community is growing steadily less Jewish, and some of the new immigrants, it seems, are no philosemites. The New York Jewish Week examines the controversy in the Russian community. Also in the Jewish Week: The ArtScroll editions of traditional religious texts are increasingly popular, but Orthodox feminists say…
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Life Lest You Think Recycling Is Virtuous…
Israeli mobsters are gunning for each other. At stake, among other things, is who will get the 5-cent deposit for recycling bottles.
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Life Ha’aretz Uses the A-Word
Last month, a British Zionist group sparked a big brouhaha when it withdrew a speaking invitation to Ha’aretz columnist Danny Rubinstein after he described Israel as an “apartheid” state at a U.N. conference. Today, however, it is a Ha’aretz editorial that is trotting out the a-word. Lamenting the situation in the occupied territories, the editorial…
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