Gabe Friedman
By Gabe Friedman
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Breaking News Cardinal Dolan Tells JTS Ties With Jews Are Strong
A half-century ago this year, the Catholic Church issued a landmark document that decried anti-Semitism and asserted that Jews could not be blamed for killing Jesus. The effect: Long-fraught relations between Catholics and Jews were dramatically improved. (JTA) To mark 50 years since the detente, New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan came to the Jewish Theological…
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Life For Princess Charlotte, a Pink Dress From Israel
(JTA) — Who knew Israeli President Reuven Rivlin had such a keen fashion sense? As the media frenzy surrounding the birth of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s second child continued through Monday, Rivlin and his wife, First Lady Nechama Rivlin — grandparents of six — sent the newborn British princess a frilly pink dress that reads…
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The Schmooze Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge
(JTA) — During a ceremony announcing the winners of the Genesis Generation Challenge, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted to set aside any confusion: “No, the [Genesis Prize] award will not go only to a ruggedly handsome international heartthrob named Michael,” he jested. Bloomberg last year won the inaugural $1 million prize, bestowed by…
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The Schmooze World’s Tiniest Bible Goes on Display in Israel
(JTA) — You’ve never seen the Bible like this before. That is, if you can actually see this version. For the 50th anniversary of the Shrine of the Book wing of the Israel Museum, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the museum has launched an exhibition on the “nano bible,” or the world’s smallest Bible,…
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Breaking News Pro Football Season Starts — on Rosh Hashanah
(JTA) — On Rosh Hashanah, according to the liturgy, our fate is written in the Book of Life. But Jewish football fans may be spending the holiday thinking about something else: the NFL opening games they are missing. The 2015 NFL schedule was released on Tuesday, and the season kickoff is on Sept. 13, which is…
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The Schmooze Doing Coachella the Jewish Way
(JTA) — The second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival starts today. That means nearly 100,000 people will descend upon the Colorado Desert in Indio, California for what has become the world’s highest-grossing music festival. For most normal humans, the festivities double as an extreme endurance test. Temperatures regularly creep toward 100…
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Opinion Did Hillary Clinton Steal Hadassah’s Logo?
Which is Hillary’s logo — and which is Hadassah’s? (JTA) — Critics love to nitpick Hillary Clinton’s personal and policy choices, as they have during the recent email scandal and the Benghazi scandal. This time, however, the critics may have a substantial case against her. As soon as Clinton’s campaign was launched on Sunday, her campaign…
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The Schmooze Does Don Draper Want to be Jewish?
Don Draper and Rachel Menken in “Mad Men“‘s first season // AMC (JTA) — Spoiler alert: The post below discusses the content of “Mad Men” Season 7, Episode 8 (“Severance”) In the weeks before the beginning of the final season of “Mad Men,” the show’s creator Matthew Weiner did rounds of interviews on his Jewish…
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