Mordechai Shinefield
By Mordechai Shinefield
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News ‘Once There Was a Student at Yeshiva Univsersity…’
If you have ever believed that a restaurant charged a woman two thousand dollars for a cookie recipe or that alligators live in the New York City sewers, you have been taken in by an urban legend. Unverifiable, verbally-transmitted indicators of the fears and wishes of their tellers, urban legends are the modern equivalent of…
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News Right-wing Columnist Calls For Coup To Oust Sharon
A prolific right-wing American Jewish commentator has called for Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to be court-martialed and “relieved of his command of the nation’s military.” Emanuel A. Winston, a regular columnist for the Jewish Press, a prominent Orthodox-oriented newspaper in Brooklyn, issued his call for a military coup in one of the many columns that…
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News Orthodox Rapper Embraces ‘Jews for Jesus’ Sect
50 Shekel, the Jewish rapper who dubbed himself the “The World’s Most Kosher MC,” is now calling himself “The Jewish Jesus Freak.” The rapper, Aviad Cohen, announced last week on his Web site that he had joined Jews for Jesus. In an e-mail to the Forward, he attributed the transformation to listening to evangelical Christian…
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