Yermi Brenner
By Yermi Brenner
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Opinion The Presidential Blessing
Taking a moment off from the intense debate over Syria, President Barack Obama published a blessing for the High Holidays. Obama noted that 50 years ago, Rabbi Joachim Prinz stood with Dr. King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and told the marchers the when god created man, he created him as everybody’s neighbor….
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Culture Brooklyn GED Program Seeks To Help Put Haredi Men ‘On the Path’ to Employment
Usher Bixenspan’s regular attire includes a black hat, a black coat and peyes, but for one afternoon in June, he wore a maroon gown, a graduation cap and a big smile. Bixenspan, 20, was part of the first graduating class of B’Derech, an academic program geared toward ultra-Orthodox Jews. The goal of B’Derech — Hebrew…
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Culture Eating Salad as a Gluten-Free Experiment Dedicated To Mom
Entering the Hummus Bar in midtown Manhattan, I knew this was going to be the most challenging moment of my weeklong gluten-free experiment. I’ve been in love with hummus for years. When I lived in Tel Aviv, at least three times a week I ate a plate of the chickpea dish for lunch. I never…
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Food Say L’Chaim at a Walmart
Walmart is helping Americans get shickered this high holidays season. The multinational retail corporation will soon be distributing L’Chaim kosher vodka and wines in a number of their stores across the country The Drinks Report announced this week. The team behind L’Chaim is hoping to target men and women who are between 21 and 55…
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News The Jewish Face of the Immigration Reform Struggle
For 25 years, Roy Naim, an undocumented immigrant, led a secretive life. Having no identification papers, he could not drive, rent an apartment or be legally employed. Worst of all, he constantly feared being deported from his home and family. All he did was try to lie low, and somehow get by. Naim is still…
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The Schmooze Weiner as King Kong on New Yorker’s Cover
While other contenders in New York’s mayoral race are calling on Anthony Weiner to drop out of the race, the Big Apple’s media outlets are feasting on the controversial candidate. The New Yorker is the latest to get creative in depicting Weiner’s mishaps. ON this week’s cover, Weiner’s legs are wrapped around the top of…
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Opinion ‘Love Child’ Plot Thickens for Jewish Lawmaker
The plot thickens and the drama continues in the weird case of the Jewish lawmaker who claimed fatherhood of a bikini model — then found out he wasn’t the real dad. A day after a DNA test proved that Rep. Steve Cohen was not genetically related to Victoria Brink, the young woman’s real father said…
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Breaking News Protests Gather Against Husband Who Refuses to Grant Jewish Divorce
More than two-dozen people protested last week in Norwalk, Connecticut against a Jewish husband, who refused to grant his wife a divorce, the Jewish Ledger reports. The demonstration, organized by the non-profit Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA), took place outside the hospital where the husband, Ephraim Ohana, works. Ohana is refusing to grant…
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