Joanie Weiss
By Joanie Weiss
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News Keep ‘In Touch’ With Temple Beth Shalom!
Editor’s Note: Please read what’s new with our friends at Temple Beth Shalom, just click on the image to enlarge it. It’s been a hectic year, but Purim is a wonderful time to press pause on all the meetings and fundraising and legal settlements and just come together as a community to celebrate. As always,…
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News ‘Move Over, Notorious RBG. Special K Is On Da Bench!’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has long been famous for her hip alter ego, “The Notorious RBG,” but now it appears that another justice on the bench also has an avatar on the scene. Court observers have noted that amid the flood of crowd-sourced Ginsburg fan swag, items featuring “Special K,” a street-styled character…
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News Nobel Prize Committee: Dylan Given Prize ‘Mostly To Mess With Roth’
In an exclusive on-the-record interview with The Backward, three members of the Nobel Prize Committee broke off from listening to Abba to explain their reasons for awarding the Literature Prize to a 1960s folk singer who sounds like a punctured accordion. “Oh, yah. We gave it to him mostly to keep screwing with Philip Roth’s…
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News D.C. Hosts Hip New ‘Alt-Orthodox’ Minyan
If you’re an Orthodox Jewish Trump supporter in Washington, DC, the hot new place to be isn’t in any synagogue. It’s a floating group that moves around town from week to week – sometimes at the Kushner mansion, sometimes in a spare office at the White House, occasionally in Steve Bannon’s basement. At first glance,…
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News California Adopts Israeli Tactics To Fight Drought
To help it cope with a historic drought, California is turning to Israeli desalination technology to help boost the water supply. What other Israeli strategies are Californians adopting to fight the drought? First the municipal government of San Luis Obispo replaced the town’s customary greeting of “Have a nice day!” with “What’s it to you,…
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News With Rep at Stake Drake-Bernie Beef Heats Up
Even as the presidential race heats up, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has found his attention sidetracked by another bitter rivalry. For reasons that remain hazy, the Brooklyn-born Vermont socialist is locked in a beef with Canadian-Jewish rapper Drake. Their mutual friend Killer Mike has tried to broker a peace, but to no avail. The beef…
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Culture Secret Jewish History of Temple Beth Shalom
Temple Beth Shalom is one of the most popular bridge playing destinations here in Boca Raton. But although many cruise past the edifice on Glade Road to get a nosh at Izzy’s Deli, few realize that there’s a taste of Yiddish in Temple Beth Shalom’s own bloodlines. To name only a few connections: — The…
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Culture Chaldeans Apologize, Urge Jews To Return and Offer Citizenship
In what may be the comeback surprise of the year, the Chaldean Empire has returned to the world stage after 2,500 years, and it comes bearing apologies, and citizenship offers, to the Jews. “On behalf of all Chaldeans everywhere, I’d like to formally apologize to the Jews for sending forth their ancestor Abraham and for…
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