Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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News Shabbat Dinner With Sarah Palin
JewsforSarah.com isn’t a web site for people who adore Old Testament matriarchs. Nor is it a fan site for the Semitic star of “Sex and the City.” Nope, JewsforSarah.com is the home for Hebrews who support Sarah Palin. And on the still-active site of the defunct New York Sun newspaper, its director — who also…
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The Schmooze Now You Can Get Hebrew Domain Names
Spelling out Hebrew domain names in English has created some confusion in Israel. As internetnews.com has pointed out, “the Hebrew word for an orange could be spelled out as ‘tapuz,’ ‘tapooz,’ ‘tapoos’ and more,” meaning it’s a challenge to “spell out the Hebrew names of sites in Latin characters.” Fret no more, Israeli web addicts…
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The Schmooze Atoning for Your Texts on Yom Kippur
At first glance, the ads echo the old “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish rye” ads — the ones featuring distinctly non-Semitic faces in ecstasy over Jewish rye bread. But in a $100,000 campaign that launches this week, the punims belong to scandal-bitten celebrities. And the look-alike ads tout the…
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The Schmooze Ritzy Philly Cemetery Makes Room for Jews
At least these locals won’t think, “There goes the neighborhood.” After 141 years, the ritzy, goyish West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia is inviting Jews to consider it as a final resting place. The September issue of Philadelphia magazine reports that those who plan to spend forever there — “as much of Philadelphia’s who’s who…
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The Schmooze Jews Dominate Vanity Fair 100 Most Influential Moguls List
“So Much for Controlling the Media” was the headline on Heeb’s recent obituary for its own print product. But the latest issue of Vanity Fair offers evidence to the contrary; with Jews dominating that magazine’s annual index of the 100 most influential moguls, our grip seems secure as ever. At the top: Preternaturally youthful Facebook…
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The Schmooze Challah-Loving Inuit Throat Singer Preserves Tradition
You might want to skip this item if you’re tired of reading about challah-loving Inuit throat singers with Jewish/Filipino adoptive parents and an affinity for Hebrew and Tagalog. If not, it’s kind of fascinating to read the UK Guardian profile of Nina Segalowitz, who grew up in a mixed Jewish-Catholic household in Montreal after getting…
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The Schmooze German’s Comments on Jews Met With Tepid Responses
It’s hard to decide what’s more disturbing — yesterday’s race-baiting comments about Jews from a board member of Germany’s central bank, or the tepid responses from almost all quarters of the German establishment. According to today’s New York Times, Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin told an interviewer that “all Jews share a particular gene [that]…
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The Schmooze German Ballerina Spy Blamed by M15 for WWII Defeat
The ballerina with an alias! The landlady with a weak heart! A mystery agent called “von Finckenstein”! In a movie script, it would sound so bad it’s good. But these are real characters in once-secret Word War II files from Britain’s M15 spy agency released this week by the UK’s National Archives. A former ballerina…
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