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The Exchange: Perspective and Prayer
The Associated Press has sent out a summary of some past prisoner exchanges between Israel and its enemies. It’s useful context in light of today’s swap. (Hat tip: Jewlicious) Meanwhile, Jewschool posts a prayer for Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
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And the Creepy Headline Award Goes to…
…JTA for “Jolie’s Jewish ob-gyn speaks”. Okay, fairness demands that I note that the longer version of the headline is made a little less creepy by the preface, “Tales from the Crib:” But it’s the shorter version that displays on JTA’s home page. I do have to give JTA credit, however, for slyly incorporating the…
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Jews and Tattoos…
…is the subject of an article in The New York Times.
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The Real ‘Jewish Jordan’ Is Headed to Israel
Lakers guard Jordan Farmar is headed to the holy land. L.A. Jewish Journal blogger Brad Greenberg — who has, quite literally, dubbed Farmar “the Jewish Jordan” — reports: Jordan Farmar, the Lakers back-up point guard and the NBA’s best Jewish player (the bar is admittedly low), will travel to Israel next month to run basketball…
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A New Spin on ‘the Jews Were Behind 9/11’ Accusation
L.A. Jewish Journal G-d Blogger Brad Greenberg discovers a Pakistani Web site that (using some fairly dubious logic) argues that Osama Bin-Laden himself is one of us.
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Jews With Guns, Elie Wiesel Testifies, Winehouse’s Kosher Spree
ALL WE ARE SAYING, IS GIVE ISRAEL A CHANCE: Some Jewish activists are complaining that the city-sponsored Cambridge Peace Commission in Harvard University’s uber-liberal hometown is biased against Israel. Boston’s Jewish Advocate has the story. RABBINATE TUG-OF-WAR: New York Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt chats with Rabbi Benjamin Lau, a prominent religious Zionist who is…
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Dept. of Mountains Out of Molehills: Reggie Jackson’s Jewish Joke
So baseball great Reggie Jackson, haggling with an artist over a painting, jokingly asked him, “Are you Jewish?” A foolish comment, made all the more foolish by the fact that it was made in earshot of a New York Post video camera. The cameraman followed up by asking Jackson why he said that, to which…
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How Does Morris Talansky Do Business?
Does the Long Island rabbi at the center of Israel’s investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have some serious skeletons in his closet? New York Magazine has obtained “a transcript of secret tapes” that, it reports, suggests that Rabbi Morris Talansky has threatened business associates in the past.
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Yid Vid: Yael Naim Does Britney Spears
The new issue of Heeb Magazine has a nice interview with Mac-made musical sensation Yael Naim. From it I learned that the Israeli-born singer, best-known for her brilliant “New Soul,” does a live cover of Britney Spears’s “Toxic.” “I wanted to take something far from what I enjoy and make it mine,” Naim tells Heeb….
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Yid Vid: Adam Sandler Doesn’t Even Like Hummus!
There was nary a review of Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” that didn’t mention the movie’s steady stream of hummus jokes. The irony is that, as the following shocking video reveals, Sandler doesn’t even like hummus. And when he appeared to be eating the mashed-chickpea spread in the film, he was actually…
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The Haredim Are Right!: Topless DJ’s Shouldn’t Be Used To Sell Deodorant
Ha’aretz reports: A recent marketing campaign for Unilever’s Axe deodorant for men raised the hackles of the ultra-Orthodox community when the corporation sponsored a poolside party for teens, DJed by a topless Hungarian disc jockey flown in for the event, and attended by other partially-clad young women. Unsurprisingly, despite Unilever’s written apology to the Haredi…
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