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Israeli Jews to Diaspora: Think of Us When You Vote
There’s a truly fascinating new poll out on Israel-Diaspora relations, which shows that among adult Israeli Jews: • 57% believe that American organizations that lobby the US government in support of pro-Israel policies should always support the policies of the current Israeli government while 32% said that such organizations are free to openly oppose the…
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A ‘Sustainable’ Jewish Homeland
Food tours are everywhere — and these days you can eat your way through almost any country with a tour group of fellow foodies. But there have been few tour options for those interested in not just the food, but where and who it’s coming from. Hazon, a Jewish environmental and food non-profit, is hoping…
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You’re Not My ‘Partner’
Lately, something confusing has started to happen. I’ll find myself at a wedding or an academic conference or a dinner party and I’ll meet a heterosexual who invariably makes reference to his or her “partner,” a term once employed mainly by gays and lesbians to refer to same-sex significant others. Now, in what seems to…
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Bamba at Heart of Rabbinic Dispute
An absurd argument over blessing snack food may help decide the future leader of Jerusalem’s Sephardi movement. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Rabbi David Yosef, the two sons of Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Jerusalem Ovadia Yosef, leading Sephardi authority and spiritual leader of the political group Shas, have long fought over inheriting their elderly father’s kingdom….
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The Debate Over Chromosome-Centric Media
Are women’s voices being ghettoized in the name of niche media? Ann Friedman, deputy editor of The American Prospect recently tackled this very query in light of Slate’s spin-off, Double X, and its debut. It should be mentioned that a founding editor, Hannah Rosin, has been giving smart answers to readers’ questions on the Bintel…
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Growing Up Madoff
The latest edition of Vanity Fair brought yet more grist for the Madoff mill — this time with a profile of Madoff’s sons, Andrew and Mark. In theory, this ought to be fascinating stuff: the boys who turned in their father. What could be more Oedipal? But it’s pretty thin gruel. One problem is access….
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State Dept Atwitter Over Young, Jewish Tech Tutor
Oh, to be young, Jewish, and the State Department’s tutor on how to tweet. Jared Cohen, 27, roughed it in Iranian speakeasies drinking bootleg moonshine, and scarfed hamburgers with friendly members of Hezbollah in the name of reporting on Middle Eastern youth culture. After two books worth of these antics plus sneaking across borders and…
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Singing ‘Shalom Aleichem’ at the German Reichstag
A fully kosher Sabbath dinner was held recently inside the German Reichstag building, of all places. It was the first time a Jewish ceremony has ever been held inside the building, which has been the seat of the German Parliament since 1894. The dinner was held in the same hall where the German Republic declared…
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Sex and the Bat Mitzvah Set?
I was married last week, and for our recent rehearsal dinner, my now husband and I put together a slideshow of photographs showing each of us at various stages of childhood and young adulthood. There were the obligatory bar and bat mitzvah shots. Combing through the photos of my 1992 bat mitzvah party, I got…
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Talk About Media Bias! (And Talk About Robotic Snakes!)
Listen to this ABC newsreader cheerily predicting that Israeli combat units “could eventually be destroyed.” But don’t dash off that outraged press release just yet Camera! It was an innocent slip-up. The news reader meant to say “deployed,” not “destroyed,” and quickly corrected herself. The segment was about a six-foot-long, remote-controlled robotic snake that the…
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Sex and Jews and Avant Garde
If you’ve never wondered about how Jews, sex and the avant garde fit together you may have had a curiousitectomy either with or without your consent. But, so long as you have a functioning intelligence and libido you will appreciate that, despite puritanical denials, most of our vital organs lie between the seats of those…
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