Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Culture The Times’ Mevaseret Zion Correspondent
Stuart Pilichowski knows how to make his voice heard. Since moving to Israel in 1999, the 52-year-old garment company agent from Fairlawn, N.J., has been busy writing letters home – often addressed to newspapers. Whether he’s responding to critiques of Israeli counterterrorism tactics in New York’s Village Voice or an article in a vegetarian publication…
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Life In Defense of ‘Self-Hating Jews’
Ha’aretz’s Bradley Burston writes that we could learn something from them, and that the Muslim world could use some self-haters of its own.
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Life The New Yorker Weighs in on the Avraham Burg Affair
New Yorker editor David Remnick revisits last month’s Avraham Burg brouhaha in a characteristically judicious and thoughtful dispatch from Israel. The full New Yorker article is here. Hat tip: Jewschool.
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Life In Israel, a Record Is Broken — and Canada Is Crushed
Ha’aretz reports: Israeli Arabs from across Israel danced their way hand in hand into the Guiness Book of World Records on Sunday after they held the largest and longest group performance of the “Debke” dance inside the walls of the Old City of Acre. A record 2,743 people danced for seven minutes straight holding hands…
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Life Einstein on Long Island: A Poor Sailor Wearing Feminine ‘Sundials’
David Rothman, a Cutchogue, N.Y., department store owner, shares his boyhood memories of Albert Einstein with The New York Times. In the summer 1939, the famed physicist relaxed by sailing (not very capably) the Long Island Sound in a boat called the Tinef — Yiddish for “worthless” or “junk.” Apparently it was “his happiest summer…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Artists vs. Rhinoplasty, Sadness in Tehrangeles, The Case for ‘Red Ken’, Etc.
‘SHE SEES DEAD PEOPLE’: The Chicago Jewish News visits with a local Jewish psychic. “For the past 35 years, I’ve been speaking to dead people,” Ruth Berger tells the newspaper. “They come into my home, they stop me on the street, they wake me from a sound sleep. Ghosts have no boundaries.” ARTISTS AGAINST RHINOPLASTY:…
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News Panel on Islamophobia Includes Conservative Voice of Dissent
The Council on American-Islamic Relations does not lack for critics — but usually they’re at a greater distance. This week, the Washington-based advocacy group, which has long been dogged by charges that it is an ally of Islamic extremists, invited American Conservative Union chairman David Keene to participate in a panel discussion on “Islamophobia” with…
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Life Worst Argument for Staying in Iraq… Ever
Should we stay in Iraq because kids are dying in Chicago? This silly shot at Barak Obama came to our attention via the Republican Jewish Coalition’s blog. But the RJC’s blogger seems to like the reasoning.
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