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When France Embraced a Jewish Avenger
‘Vive la France, Vive la France!” Some 81 years ago this month, a person in Warsaw would have enjoyed the odd spectacle of a mob of Jews surrounding France’s Polish embassy, wildly proclaiming the greatness of the French Republic. The occasion: Jews everywhere were celebrating France because, after a sensational eight-day trial (which even made…
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October 31, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward Antisemites made up a lie about Jews: that they… are a frightened people who fear both the receiving and giving end of punches. Such people are simply going to have to apologize and will have to admit that they don’t really know the Jews very well at all. In…
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Putting a Campaign Spotlight on the (Hebrew) Character Issue
Who will get the Hebrew vote November 4? There must be a big one, since I can’t imagine why else the Obama and McCain campaigns and their supporters would be putting out so many Hebrew buttons, stickers, T-shirts, shopping bags, hats, mugs, mouse pads and other paraphernalia. Will it be a close race? If it’s…
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Music Yid Vid: If Amy Winehouse Were a Yiddish-Speaking, Bearded, Orthodox Guy Who Had a Little Too Much Manischewitz…
…she still wouldn’t want to go to rehab: There’s something quite appropriate about doing an Amy Winehouse cover while a bit shikered. Here’s Winehouse herself performing a Michael Jackson cover while in a bit of state. Hat tip: Commentary’s John Podhoretz UPDATE: The mysterious, bearded, Yiddish-speaking Orthodox guy has been identified! Bintel Blog reader Ralph…
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Family: A Self-Portrait
I Am My Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions By Rafael Goldchain Princeton Architectural Press, 168 pages, $40. There is something unsatisfying about Rafael Goldchain’s faux family photo album, “I Am My Family” — and it is this very quality that accounts for its considerable fascination and power. A photographer who has long explored questions of…
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Kosha Dillz: Rhymes of a ‘Nice Jewish Boy’
There has never been a luckier or more morbid time to be a Jewish rapper; Jewish white suburban boys can now look to Israel to find some mass misery to rhyme about, taking their pick from suicide bombings, inner-governmental strife and Holocaust paranoia. Oh, and there’s also the women who — army-hardened and Mariah Carey-shaped…
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Shooting Hoops, a Jewish History
It’s true that Major League Baseball has seen a renaissance of Jewish players during the past few years, but the historic American Jewish sport is surely basketball. It makes sense if you think about it. Easy to play on the concrete surfaces that are ubiquitous in urban areas, basketball was the sport most accessible to…
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October 24, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward Jews on Manhattan’s Lower East Side turned out in the tens of thousands in a huge demonstration to support the socialist candidate for president, Eugene V. Debs. Along with such speakers as Morris Hillquit and Jacob Pankin, Debs’s short speech about the incredible increase in socialism was met with…
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Booths, Tabernacles, Tents and Huts: Naming the Sukkah
The eight-day holiday of Sukkot that began on the evening of Monday, October 13, is known in English — quaintly, to our ears — as the “Feast of Booths” or the “Feast of Tabernacles.” It’s no wonder that we prefer to say (stressing the second syllable) “Sukkot” — or, pronouncing the word in its Eastern…
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What Makes Edgar Run?
Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jewish Renaissance By Edgar M. Bronfman and Beth Zasloff St. Martin’s Press, 240 pages, $24.95. One has to be in a coal mine in Uzbekistan to be unaware of the Bronfmans, particularly Edgar M. Bronfman and his Jewish communal activities. Top dog at the World Jewish Congress for more…
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