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Neo-Nazi Highway Renamed for a Rabbi
A half-mile stretch of highway adopted by a neo-Nazi group now bears a rabbi’s name. The National Socialist Movement of Springfield, MO recently adopted a stretch of highway near their hometown. The adoption failed to attract much attention until the neo-Nazis cleaned the roadway wearing swastikas and clutching white pride flags, and photographing themselves beneath…
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Why Is a Chabad Rabbi Advocating Violence?
I was pleased to see Manis Friedman representing the Chabad point of view in the “Ask the Rabbis” section of the current issue of Moment magazine – that is, until I read what he actually said to the question of how should Jews treat their Arab neighbors? The rabbi, whose work I enjoyed since reading…
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Bar Refaeli — Minus the Swimsuit
If you thought Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli’s appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2007 stirred things up, wait until you see this: The Huffington Post just released photos of Refaeli’s cover for next month’s Esquire — and this time there’s not even a bikini. Completely nude and covered in what seems…
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American Girl Doll — or Arsonist
Step away from your daughter’s doll collection — one of them could be an arsonist. Last month, American Girl revealed that its newest character, Rebecca Rubin, would be based on a young Jewish girl. Unfortunately, young Rebecca shares the same name with real life fugitive Rebecca J. Rubin, who is currently wanted by the F.B.I….
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Award Show Antics
Sacha Baron Cohen’s ostentatious characters are beloved for satirizing American phobias and closed-minded discomforts relating to social issues. In 2006, Borat’s cross-country journey mocked antisemitism and xenophobia. And now Bruno — Cohen’s gay Austrian fashion worker character whose self-titled film premieres this summer — pokes at the empty quest for excess, and its unfettered fear…
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Sotomayor and the Mikveh
The Sonya Sotomayor bashing has reached a despicable low. It wasn’t enough that Newt Gingrich called her a racist. No, now conservative radio host and convicted felon, G. Gordon Liddy, is going after the Supreme Court nominee’s cycle. Not her bike, her monthly one — if, indeed, she is still menstruating. Liddy sounds like a…
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Modesty Is Not Just About Hemlines — or Sex
For my first post here on The Sisterhood I’m picking up on Debra Nusssbaum Cohen’s invitation to talk about modesty. While Cohen focuses her discussion on modest dress, she got me to thinking about a modesty phenomenon that has little to do with attire: the women-only performance scene that’s been growing in certain Orthodox circles….
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Jon and Kate, Come to Shul With Us
Like much of America, it seems, I am currently drawn to watching the TLC reality show “Jon & Kate Plus Eight.” The marriage of Jon and Kate Gosselin, the parents of eight adorable children, appears to be crashing while we spectate. The husband and wife are physically and emotionally distanced by their anger and frustrations,…
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Eli Valley, Game-changer?
Has Eli Valley, Forward columnist, changed the future of Israel as we know it? This is from an article about Foxman and Avigdor Lieberman’s proposed Loyalty Oath for Israeli citizens in February: But the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that is quick to spot instances of discrimination, says Lieberman is right to be concerned about apparent…
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Offbeat Israel: The Great-Great Grandfather of Jewish Law
A broad alliance of people, from politicians to market traders, are worried for the heath of Israel’s less well-off, as reported in today’s edition of the Forward. Just as that row brews, we learn that the health of a staggering number of Israelis is suffering due to financial factors. According to research released by the…
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Initiating a Conversation About Modesty
The New York Times reports that the upshot of a recent freewheeling panel discussion is that the judiciary wants its members to be more, well, judicious in their dress. There is a move afoot, apparently, to have lawyers be more appropriately shod and dressed during courtroom proceedings than they have recently been. Should there be…
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