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On the northwest side of Chicago, my old Jewish neighborhood may soon live on in infamy
Albany Park was home to Rosenblum's Bookstore, Weinberg's Clothing — and also alleged DC shooter Elias Rodriguez
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Preemptive Lieberman Launch?
[ ![][2]][2] The threat of another Middle East conflagration reached new heights as Israel cranked up its rhetoric, threatening to send Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. “Israel does not seek war, but the security of our people is paramount,” said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel’s prime minister. “We will not…
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Meet the ‘Micro Mechitzah’
[ ![][2]][2] Driven by a rising number of complaints about immodesty in public spaces, a number of B’nai Brak firms have launched competing lines of mechitzahs. “People want to feel as safe from immodesty outside of shul as they do inside,” said Shalom Shalomov of SegReg8. “Our micro mechitzahs can be used at the beach,…
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Shalit’s Parents Want Gratitude
[ ![][2]][2] MITZPE HILA, ISRAEL —The parents of recently released Israeli solider Gilad Shalit say that, while they are pleased and relieved to have their son back home, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. “I would have thought that mounting an international publicity campaign for five years might be worth a little gratitude, a little…
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Samson To Appeal Juicing Charges
[ ![][2]][2] NEW YORK — The competitive demolition community is in an uproar after the urine sample of Samson “The Danite” Zoraker tested positive for performance enhancing substances this weekend. “I’m totally innocent,” Samson claimed on Monday at a press conference. “I’ve never used any controlled substances, except for my hair.” Jewish slugger and National…
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Christmas, Hanukkah or Apocalypse?
[ ![][2]][2] If you’re a Jewish parent like me, you always dread December. There’s the relentless onslaught of Christmas carols and decorations. The perpetual question of, “Do I try to compete and distort Hanukkah, or honor the holiday but nonpluss my kids?” And, worst of all for a Jew, there’s all that wintertime indoor-heat chafing….
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Scientist Discovers Plaid in the Spectrum
[ ![][2]][2] Organic food stores, children’s book publishers, LGBT groups and leprechauns have been thrown into turmoil by the discovery by Noah Obadiah, a professor at the Technion in Haifa, of an extra color in the rainbow. Although he discovered the color nestling between blue and indigo several months ago, he was waiting for the…
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Pronouns of the World Unite!
[ ![][2]][2] When I first started writing this weekly column, almost 115 years ago, Karl Marx was the Simon Cowell of the era — a loudmouth from Britain passing judgment on the working class. Being dead hadn’t stopped Marx and I’d be surprised if it stops Cowell. At that time it was barely acceptable to…
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An Immigrant’s Life, Part 2
In 1906, Nasye Frug wrote to the Forverts about her life as a new wife and recent immigrant. Even before receiving unhelpful wedding gifts, she had realized that the Goldene Medina of the New World was not turning out to be quite the life she had imagined. Writing about her childhood in the Old Country…
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Haman, LDS Church in Rehab Shock
[ ![][2]][2] UPDATE The man whose three-cornered hat inspired millions of delicious cookies, is in rehab. Haman the Agagite was spotted Monday checking into the Betty Ford Center to be treated for his longstanding addiction to anti-Semitism. He traveled from Persia, and through millennia, to seek help at the famed addiction treatment center in Rancho…
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Weaponizing Lieberman; Keeping Up With the Shalits; Juicing Jews
<img src=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/forward-com/id351434716″ alt=””> In a special mid-week Backward podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Dan Friedman and Tony Weiss about Israel’s recent threat to launch Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman into Iranian airspace. Then, the group turns to reported familial strife in the Shalit household, just months after imprisoned IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was released by…
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Books Q&A: Michael Ian Black on ‘Doing it Right’
Speaking with The Arty Semite over the phone, Michael Ian Black paused and said: “That’s weird. I’m in the hotel hallway walking towards my room. On the carpet I see a pair of underwear and recognize them as my own. Now why in the world is a pair of my own underwear sitting in the…
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