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It’s the End of Jerusalem as We Know It, and Israelis Feel Fine
In an anguished column, Ha’aretz’s Uzi Benziman warns that Jerusalem — Israel’s capital and the spiritual heart of world Jewry — is being ceded to its ultra-Orthodox population: For years the Jewish/ultra-Orthodox component in the Jerusalem landscape has been increasingly crowding out the colorful mosaic that characterized it in the past. Not only secular and…
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Southern Baptist Leader: Say It Ain’t Joe (But Cantor’s Kosher)
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a titan of the religious right, has some ideas on which Jews would make good number twos for John McCain. Land tells CBSNews.com: I think that the vice presidential choice that John McCain makes is probably the most important choice he’s…
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Yid Vid: Daily Show Correspondent Has Right Idea, Wrong Wall
The Daily Show’s Olympics correspondent Rob Riggle visits China’s Great Wall and takes part “in a custom 6,000 years old.” The action begins around 3:30 into the video: Hat tip to Bintel Blog reader Jack Miller
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Books Former Forward Hand Max Gross Schlubs It Up for All of New York to See
Former Forward hand and “From Schlub to Stud” author Max Gross is flaunting his schlubby ways on WCBS for all of New York to see. Now, some might be surprised to tune into WCBS and see a schlubby young man with a wild red Jewfro talking up a book with a subtitle like “How to…
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Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld: Is Agriprocessors Meat Kosher?
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, the Modern Orthodox spiritual leader of Washington’s Ohev Sholom-The National Synagogue, has penned a scathing op-ed for The New York Times about the growing controversy over labor conditions at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse: …News reports and government documents have described abusive practices at Agriprocessors against workers, including minors. Children as young…
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Hamas Beards vs. Fatah Moustaches
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas has resumed its policy of shaving mustaches of political opponents to humiliate them, Fatah officials said Wednesday. Hamas resorted to this form of punishment in the past after arresting senior Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip, the officials said. Hamas, for its part, accused the Palestinian Authority security forces of…
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Rep. Steve Cohen Makes History
The Associated Press reports: The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws. “Today represents a milestone in our nation’s efforts to remedy the ills of our past,” said Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., chairwoman…
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Babs on Barack: He’s Kosher on Israel
Entertainer extraordinaire and Hollywood liberal stalwart Barbra Streisand fields some questions from Politico on the 2008 presidential campaign. Among other tidbits, there’s this exchange: POLITICO: There’s been a lot of discussion about Israel during this race so far. Should this issue have a major place in this year’s election? STREISAND: Issues of foreign policy have…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: ‘Baffling’ Barack Obama, Fining Jesse Jackson, Gluing Gordon Brown
ISRAEL’S NBA HOPE: Boston’s Jewish Advocate profiles Israeli basketball star Omri Casspi, who, it suggests, could be the next Israeli star to play in the NBA and is thus, as the paper awkwardly puts it in its headline, “The great white Israelite.” DEPT. OF FUNNY HEADLINES: Other headlines in this week’s Jewish Advocate include the…
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What Happens at the Kotel Doesn’t Stay at the Kotel
An Israeli newspaper has published what apparently is a photo of the note that Barack Obama placed in the Western Wall during his visit Wednesday. The Israeli tabloid Ma’ariv reports that the note — written on stationary from Jerusalem’s King David hotel, where Obama was staying — was taken from the wall and given to…
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Yid Vid: David Irving Does New York
Max Blumenthal, scourge of conservative conferences, turns his camera toward Holocaust denier David Irving, who recently swung by New York City for a stop on his American speaking tour. Blumenthal doesn’t have to work too hard to make his subject look ridiculous: Irving spoke in a room at an Upper East Side church basement, but…
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