Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Celebrity-Studded ‘Bark Mitzvah’
Fox 5 reports on a new (canine) take on an age-old Jewish tradition.
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Life Yid Vid: Cohen @ Mushon
Why? Why not? They’re dope, fly, fresh and phat… as the kids used to say. Oh, also, a much more famous Jewish musician recently produced a much stranger video.
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Life It’s the End of Jerusalem as We Know It, and Israelis Feel Fine
In an anguished column, Ha’aretz’s Uzi Benziman warns that Jerusalem — Israel’s capital and the spiritual heart of world Jewry — is being ceded to its ultra-Orthodox population: For years the Jewish/ultra-Orthodox component in the Jerusalem landscape has been increasingly crowding out the colorful mosaic that characterized it in the past. Not only secular and…
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Life Southern Baptist Leader: Say It Ain’t Joe (But Cantor’s Kosher)
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a titan of the religious right, has some ideas on which Jews would make good number twos for John McCain. Land tells CBSNews.com: I think that the vice presidential choice that John McCain makes is probably the most important choice he’s…
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Life Yid Vid: Daily Show Correspondent Has Right Idea, Wrong Wall
The Daily Show’s Olympics correspondent Rob Riggle visits China’s Great Wall and takes part “in a custom 6,000 years old.” The action begins around 3:30 into the video: Hat tip to Bintel Blog reader Jack Miller
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Books Former Forward Hand Max Gross Schlubs It Up for All of New York to See
Former Forward hand and “From Schlub to Stud” author Max Gross is flaunting his schlubby ways on WCBS for all of New York to see. Now, some might be surprised to tune into WCBS and see a schlubby young man with a wild red Jewfro talking up a book with a subtitle like “How to…
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Life Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld: Is Agriprocessors Meat Kosher?
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, the Modern Orthodox spiritual leader of Washington’s Ohev Sholom-The National Synagogue, has penned a scathing op-ed for The New York Times about the growing controversy over labor conditions at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse: …News reports and government documents have described abusive practices at Agriprocessors against workers, including minors. Children as young…
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Life Hamas Beards vs. Fatah Moustaches
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas has resumed its policy of shaving mustaches of political opponents to humiliate them, Fatah officials said Wednesday. Hamas resorted to this form of punishment in the past after arresting senior Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip, the officials said. Hamas, for its part, accused the Palestinian Authority security forces of…
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