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Estelle Getty, RIP
Estelle Getty of “Golden Girls” is no longer with us. Here’s a tribute from a fan: From her New York Times obit: Long before “Golden Girls” Ms. Getty had been portraying maternal types of all sorts on the stage. “I am the mother,” she declared in her opening line in “Torch Song Trilogy,” Harvey Fierstein’s…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Chabad’s Ivy Cred, Hulk’s Jewish Values, Infiltrators for Jesus?
BLAMING THE VICTIMS?: New York Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt writes about the recent resurfacing (first reported by JTA) of controversial spiritual leader/seeker and former rabbi Mordechai Gafni. Gafni, who has long been dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct, now seems to be affiliated with a non-Jewish New Age community in Utah, and he’s pointing…
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Sensitive to Haredi Sensibilities (But Not to Those of Women and Britons)
Ha’aretz reports: A senior Knesset official on Monday said fear of offending ultra-Orthodox MKs led the institution to exclude women singers from the parliamentary choir at a special session in honor of visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier in the day. Two-thirds of the Knesset choir, headed by MK Zevulun Orlev (National Union-National Religious…
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Obama’s Busy Day: Bibi, Shimon, Tzipi, Two Ehuds and a Pair of Palestinians
Barack Obama is going to be pretty busy on Wednesday. His campaign has announced that he will be meeting in Israel that day with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Likud opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu. As if that’s not enough for a day’s work, he’ll also be meeting with…
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Benny Morris: Stop Iran or Face ‘Middle Eastern Nuclear Holocaust’
Israeli “New Historian”-turned-Cassandra Benny Morris has penned a grim prophesy in today’s New York Times: Israel will almost surely attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months — and the leaders in Washington and even Tehran should hope that the attack will be successful enough to cause at least a significant delay…
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The Sanhedrin vs. the Beijing Olympics
Human rights activists critical of the upcoming Beijing Olympics have gained a surprising new ally: the “re-established Sanhedrin.” Yes, that’s right, the re-established Sanhedrin — a body launched in 2004 by a group of Israeli Orthodox rabbis in a somewhat audacious attempt to reconstitute the ancient supreme rabbinic court of the same name — has…
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Ari Shavit: Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and Syria Win
Ha’aretz’s resident Jeremiah, Ari Shavit, paints a pretty grim picture about where the past two years have left Israel vis-à-vis its enemies: Here are the results of Israel’s war against Hezbollah so far. Hezbollah is bringing home a living murderer, and Israel is bringing home two dead soldiers – over whose capture it sacrificed 160…
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Will Israel Bomb Iran for the Sake of Diplomacy?
Writing in The New Republic, Ha’aretz’s Shmuel Rosner suggests that if Israel attacks Iran, it may not do so with the expectation that it will stop Iran’s nuclear problem. Rather, he writes, Israel might attack Iran in the hope of “stirring the pot” — of forcing an international community that seems increasingly resigned to the…
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From a Brother’s Eulogy
From The Jerusalem Post, Ofer Regev in his eulogy for his brother Eldad: “I’m proud to belong to those who love and not to those who hate,” Ofer Regev, brother of fallen soldier Eldad Regev, who was returned in Wednesday’s prisoner swap with Hizbullah, said at Eldad’s funeral Thursday. Ofer began his eulogy with a…
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Rahm Emanuel: First Jewish Speaker of the House?
Politico examines the ambitions of Democratic powerbroker Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who is considered a possible Senate successor to Barack Obama in the event that the Illinois Democrat is elected president in November. But Emanuel insists that he’s not interested in Obama’s Senate seat , which, Politico notes, begs the question, “What does Rahm really want,…
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Slàn, Irish Jewry?
The Jerusalem Post reports: The future of the Jewish community in Ireland is bleak, as its committed members age and the young immigrate to other European countries and Israel, according to Dr. Rory Miller, senior lecturer at King’s College in London. UPDATE: Commenter Arieh Lebowitz helpfully noted that my original headline for this item (“Slàn,…
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