Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Yid Vid: Rappelling Y.U.
Don’t jump! Not even if you have a rope. That’s the message Yeshiva University sent to its students after some daredevils posted a video to YouTube of them rappelling from the Modern Orthodox university’s tallest buildings. The Florida Jewish News has the full story. The video is below: According to the paper, Yeshiva’s dean of…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Museum’s $100 Million, Muslim Builds Shul, Hoons vs. Jews
FOR THE GIRLS: New York Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt recalls his first granddaughter’s simchat bat — and asks why ceremonies welcoming newborn girls haven’t caught on with his fellow Orthodox Jews. Also in the Jewish Week: With synagogue dues rising and members fleeing, an article explores whether congregations need to find a new ways…
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Life Pro-Palestinian, Pro-Israel Activists Team Up
In a historic instance of inadvertent collaboration, the combined efforts of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students at San Jose State University in California landed their school a spot on Mother Jones magazine’s annual roundup of campus activism: Mother Jones reports: Adopting a tactic popularized on other campuses, in April San Jose State University students built a…
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Life Madonna Hearts Shimon
Madonna dropped in on Israel’s president Shimon Peres this weekend amid her latest celebrity-packed Kabbalah conclave in the holy land. Y-Net reports that she presented Peres with a copy of the “Book of Splendor” (i.e. the Zohar) with the dedication: “To Shimon Peres, the man I admire and love, Madonna.” The Material Girl also proclaimed…
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Life He Who Rules Gaza…
…will quickly become unpopular.
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Culture Yid Vid: A Great Miracle Happened One Year Ago Today
Today marks the first anniversary of a pivotal moment in Jewish history: Here’s a report from last year on this momentous occasion: Boston’s North Shore reclaimed the world record for largest shofar ensemble Sept. 17 when 798 participants sounded the shofar for 7 minutes, 50 seconds, on Phillips Beach in Swampscott, Mass. The Great Shofar…
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Life O.J. @ DOJ
The JTA reports: President Bush nominated an Orthodox Jew to be U.S. attorney general. Michael Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, is a conservative who has criticized Bush administration policies that have kept detainees from consulting with lawyers. Democrats have praised Mukasey, and his selection represents a shift from Bush’s combative defense of…
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Life Boris Jackson, Kaput
One of the great treats of the final months of 5767 was being able to enjoy the madcap contests dreamed up for Jewcy.com by the mysterious, fictitious “Boris Jackson.” The weekly “Boris Jackson Challenge” has asked Jewcy readers to probe the deepest, darkest recesses of their yiddisher kops to come up with creative responses to…
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