Jen Taylor Friedman
By Jen Taylor Friedman
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Opinion Why It’s Absurd for a Pastor To Give Donald Trump a Jewish Prayer Shawl
“This is a prayer shawl straight from Israel,” Detroit pastor Bishop Wayne Jackson said as he draped a tallit around Donald Trump’s shoulders on Saturday, casually appropriating a Jewish ritual item for Christian purposes. Trump, who had just addressed the Great Faith Ministries, a black church, in an attempt to make inroads with African-American voters,…
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Life Who’s To Say Tefillin Barbie Is a Rabbi?
“You know Barbie’s getting a new job,” says my friend Mimi to me. “People can vote for her new career.” I put tefillin on a Mattel Barbie doll in 2006, unwittingly creating the Jewish icon now known as Tefillin Barbie Tefillin Barbie has a religious-girl denim skirt, a T-shirt, the tallit and tefillin more generally…
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