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Arrest Expected in Chandra Levy Case
Charges are reportedly imminent in the disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy, the Washington intern, who had been romantically linked to the former California Congressman Gary Condit. Levy’s parents — who, at the time of her disappearance, were members of the Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue in Modesto, Calif. — were informed Friday that…
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Inside Madoff’s ‘Penthouse Prison’
On Friday, the ABC News show “20/20,” aired videos of a polo shirt-clad Bernard Madoff, holed up in his Upper East Side “penthouse prison” — using his MacBook laptop computer, a bottle of sparkling water at his side. In the segment, former Madoff employee Nader Ibrahim said Madoff’s sons and brother ran the business while…
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The Nation: Lieberman’s Israel Undeserving of ‘Bashir’
How could a populace that rates Ari Folman’s Oscar-nominated “Waltz With Bashir” the third best Israeli film of all time have voted to make the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party the nation’s third-largest faction? That is the question posed by writer and Israeli army veteran Liel Leibovitz in an essay published on The Nation’s Web site….
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Of Virgin Births and Water Bottles
As the Bintel Blog just reported, Israeli humor has already provoked the fury of Holocaust survivors this week. Now it has Christians up in arms, too. A late-night talk show on Channel 10 ran a sketch jibing Christian beliefs, including the virgin birth and the notion that Jesus walked on water. According to the sketch,…
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Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hitler in Tel Aviv
In the second parking-related hubbub that has infuriated some Jews in about as many months, a YouTube clip that shows the likeness of Adolf Hitler enraged over a 250-shekel parking fine in Tel Aviv, has some Holocaust survivors up in arms. The parody, which borrows footage from “Downfall” — the 2004 movie about Hitler’s final…
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Israel Searches for a Hero, Spiderman Will Do
It’s just days after the general election, and Likud and Kadima are at it again — arguing over the issue of territory. But if you’re getting the impression that the two parties have stopped bickering over who won the election and started talking about Israel’s peacemaking policy, you are mistaken. Instead, think teen movies and…
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Hollywood’s ‘Jewish Influence’ and the Case Against ‘The Reader’
In the days after Ron Rosenbaum on Slate derided “The Reader” as “The Worst Holocaust Film Ever Made,” and “a film whose essential metaphorical thrust is to exculpate Nazi-era Germans from knowing complicity in the Final Solution,” a campaign is underway to keep Oscar judges from voting for the film, which is nominated in the…
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Jewish Conspiracy Theories All The Rage in Asia
Books that purport to chronicle world Jewry’s plot to rule the world are flying off shelves in China and Japan. Such conspiracy theories are also prevalent in Malaysia, the Philippines and, to some extent, throughout Asia, according to a recently published essay by the Anglo-Dutch writer Ian Buruma. But unlike standard-issue Western antisemitism — accusations…
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Coming Clean About JDate
Dear Ayelet, For the past year, I’ve been dating a man I met on JDate. I’d venture to say that he’s “the one” — and we’re already talking about engagement, marriage, children (hopefully in that order). Here’s the thing: We haven’t been honest with most of our friends and even some of our family members…
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A Red-Faced Knesset
One Member of the Knesset issued an ethics claim against himself after he got into a drunken argument with nightclub security guards; another MK attempted to diagnose a “sexual perversion”; still another was arrested for smuggling 25,000 Ecstasy tablets into Israel. And a fellow parliamentarian delivered a moving eulogy for a colleague who was still…
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Cantor Among Buffalo Crash Victims
Among the 50 people who died in Thursday’s plane crash outside of Buffalo was Cantor Susan Wehle of Temple Beth Am in Williamsville, N.Y. Wehle, who was ordained at Aleph — Alliance for Jewish Renewal, had been working at the synagogue since 2002. She had recently released a CD titled “Shirei Refuah v’Tikvah — Songs…
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