Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Mr. Katz Is Famous
This Sunday’s New York Times featured a great profile of the Yiddish Forward’s Mr. Katz: BORN in Poland in 1936, Louis Katz was at a young age smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto to a farm outside the city, where he lived with a family that treated him as a grandchild. To shield him from…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Sy Hersh Speaks, Visiting With Chabon and Waldman, Davening Discharge
DRIFTING RIGHT: As the Seattle Kollel marks its sweet 16, some fear that the Orthodox-run educational organization is pulling the city’s Orthodox community to the right, toward ultra-Orthodoxy. Seattle’s Jewish Transcript has the story. SY HERSH SPEAKS: The New Yorker’s legendary intelligence reporter Seymour Hersh talks with the L.A. Jewish Journal about the Bush administration…
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Life Fun With Judaism (Not Just for Hippies)
Jennifer Bleyer, the founding editor of Heeb magazine and one of the my favorite young writers on Jewish (and non-Jewish) topics, has written a great first-person piece for Nextbook on “The Jewish Catalog,” the counterculture-era Do-It-Yourself compendium that taught her parents’ generation that Judaism “could be fun.” And she thought it was pretty cool, too….
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Life Adventures in Moheling
Max Mintz shares some fun anecdotes about his work as a traveling mohel with Houston’s Jewish Herald-Voice: One of his strangest experiences occurred earlier this year, when he was invited to a brit milah in Tulsa, Okla. “When I arrived in Tulsa, my bags did not arrive with me, which was not good, since I…
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Life It’s Official: I’m Not Hip
Leave it to Heeb magazine to make me feel inadequate. I live in Brooklyn. I have black-frame glasses. I even was at last year’s Sonic Youth/Yeah Yeah Yeahs concert in McCarren Pool. And yet, for all this, I’ve heard of only a paltry 10 of the people featured in this year’s Heeb 100. Thanks a…
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Life Revising Israel’s Law of Return
In the wake of the arrests of a gang of neo-Nazis in Israel, Yair Sheleg has some provocative but sensible proposals for overhauling Israel’s Law of Return.
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Life When a Jew Is Not a Jew
Thankfully San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew, charged today with mail fraud by federal prosecutors, is not one of us. Alas, neither is Norman Jewison.
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Life Where Is the International Solidarity Movement Now?
Yesterday’s lengthy New York Times article on the plight of Gaza merchants — including an arms-smuggler named Muhammad — featured the following gem: Hamas is working with the Egyptians to destroy unauthorized tunnels, Muhammad said, while the Egyptians, under pressure from the United States and Israel, have recently changed all the security officers along the…
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