Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Michael Lerner Says ‘I’m Sorry’ (in 1,800 Words)
Rabbi Michael Lerner is sorry. The Tikkun magazine editor recently issued an apology to three groups that are fiercely critical of Israel — Jewish Voice for Peace, United for Peace and Justice and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. (UFPJ and the U.S. Campaign are organizing a mass mobilization next month in Washington…
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Life In the Beginning…
In the beginning, there was the Bintel Brief, the Forward’s legendary advice column. Launched in 1906 by Forward editor Abraham Cahan, the Bintel Brief — literally a “Bundle of Letters” — helped waves of Yiddish-speaking immigrants find their footing in 20th-century American life. But the Bintel Brief was more than just an advice column. It…
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Israel News The Nebbisher Rebbe
American Apparel founder Dov Charney is notorious for ads featuring scantily clad young women modeling his company’s clothes while striking provocative poses. Now, it appears, he’s found religion — or at least he’s found the appropriate rebbe: Woody Allen. The trendy T-shirt purveyor recently put up a billboard at the busy corner of Houston and…
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Israel News Virtual Journalism
Second Life — the burgeoning online virtual world with more than 5 million registered users — already has synagogues, a Jewish museum, a Holocaust memorial, a Western Wall replica and, yes, antisemitism. Now it has its own Jewish magazine. The first issue of 2Life, an English-language magazine chronicling Jewish life in Second Life, hit the…
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News California Campuses Gain a Reputation as Hotbeds of Anti-Israel Rhetoric
The lecture topic was “The Threat to Israel’s Existence.” The speaker was Daniel Pipes, a Middle East analyst known for his hawkish pro-Israel views and sharp denunciations of Islamic extremism. The setting was the University of California, Irvine, a campus with a national reputation as a hotbed of anti-Israel rhetoric. Students wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs clustered…
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News A 9/11 Conspiracy? ‘I Would Not Be Surprised,’ Says Tikkun Editor
Rabbi Michael Lerner, the longtime activist and editor of Tikkun magazine, has published an essay saying he is open to the possibility that the American government may have been behind the September 11 terrorist attacks. “I would not be surprised to learn that some branch of our government conspired either actively to promote or passively…
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News Main Anti-war Group Plans Rally Against Israeli Policies
The anti-war group behind the recent demonstration that brought tens of thousands to Washington to protest the Iraq War already has plans for another mass rally in the nation’s capital. This time, though, the target of the protesters’ ire will be Israel. United for Peace and Justice, the convener of the January 27 march, is…
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News A Holly Jolly Hybrid Holiday
Chrismukkah: Everything You Need To Know To Celebrate the Hybrid Holiday By Ron Gompertz Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 144 pages, $17.95 Ron Gompertz has found the solution to the December Dilemma: He punts. Gompertz is the self-appointed pied piper of Chrismukkah, a hybrid holiday popularized three years ago by the Fox television series “The O.C.”…
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