Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life ‘Holy Ethnic Dissolution, Batman!’
What if Batman and Robin worked in the American Jewish community? Eli Valley offers up a clever exposition of this silly scenario in a comic on the Web site Jewcy.
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Life Paula Abdul Sandwiched Between Two Rabbis
Here’s a cute video: Paula Abdul in conversation with two Orthodox rabbis, both competing to sing her praises. (She lights candles on Friday nights, and goes to shul on Saturday mornings!) How sweet! And all the while some cheesy pop music is playing in the background. Hat Tip: L.A. Jewish Journal.
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Life Take My Love Life, Please
Like many young New Yorkers, the folks who write Heeb magazine’s blog evidently spend a lot of time perusing the Craig’s List real estate listings — and it paid off for them. They stumbled upon this one-of-kind sublet.
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Harlem’s Withering Shul, Temple Tug-of-War, Buying the Boycott
The New York Jewish Week reports on the withering of Harlem’s Commandment Keepers, “the nation’s oldest African-American [Jewish] congregation,” Also in The Jewish Week: Producers of a new musical look for an actor to play a Hasid who falls in love with a Brooklyn hipster, and Cynthia Ozick rips the paper’s coverage of Tova Reich’s…
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Film & TV Daniel Pearl’s Father Laments ‘Moral Equivalence’ of ‘A Mighty Heart’
The father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is criticizing “A Mighty Heart,” the new movie about his son’s abduction, suggesting that it falls into the trap of “moral equivalence.” In an article for The New Republic Online, Judea Pearl writes: You can see traces of this logic in the film’s comparison of…
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Life Michael Lerner: The Case for Spam
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine and author of frequent (and lengthy) e-mail missives, makes the case that efforts to prohibit e-mail spam could hurt “social change organizations.” To those who would argue that they have a sweeping right not to have their inboxes invaded by spam (even from nonprofits), Lerner retorts: The real…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Hippies Reminisce, Forgotten Jewish Hoopsters, Funding Farrakhan’s Friends
San Francisco’s J. newspaper catches up with the Jewish veterans of the “Summer of Love” 40 years later. Chabad of San Francisco Rabbi Yosef Langer recalls the influence that the era’s music had on him in the days before he turned on to Orthodox Judaism. “My entry to self-realization was through music,” he tells J….
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Books Worst… Book Title… Ever
Wondering what the book’s about? Fortunately, there’s this informative back-cover testimonial from Stanford literature professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Reading the texts of a culture that could only achieve its Germanness by being so utterly Jewish, along the lines of the 20th-century’s terminal mass migrations, Todd Presner’s book opens our 21st-century eyes to a new way…
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