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Hagee Has His Say
JTA’s Ami Eden poses some questions via e-mail to controversial Christians United for Israel founder Pastor John Hagee, who has been accused of being anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim and, by some, even antisemitic (and, by me, of being too philosemitic for his own good). Here’s part of the Q&A: You have been attacked by liberal Jews who…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: California’s Camel Farm, Portrait of the Artist as Hitler, Python-Eating Jewish Cannibals?
CONVERSION DEFECTION: A new, more strict conversion policy adopted by the Rabbinical Council of America has already prompted some leading Modern Orthodox rabbis to set up their own rabbinic organization and threaten to set up their own conversion courts. Now, a member of the RCA committee that fashioned the conversion policy, leading New York Orthodox…
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Eliot Spitzer as Alexander Portnoy
The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber writes: I’ve been racking my brain for a character profile that would shed light on what the hell happened with Eliot Spitzer, and the only thing I’m coming up with is … Alexander Portnoy, the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity for the City of New York (and anti-hero of Philip…
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N.Y. Magazine Imagines a Warsaw Full of Zaydes, Bagel Innovators
The normally excellent bloggers over at New York Magazine’s Grub Street reach too quickly for ethnic cutesiness in a post about the everything bagel: “Are we really to believe that the world waited until 1977 for the invention of the everything bagel? Somebody’s zayde in Warsaw is going to be getting a phone call soon.”…
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Yid Vid: Fiddler on the Goof?
“Fiddler on the Roof” and “Avenue Q” are two major Broadway musicals that celebrate community and kvetch about poverty through the cunning use of puppets. Oh wait, that last part is only “Avenue Q.” But not anymore…
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Spitzer Scandal’s Israeli Connection, Etc.
The man who is accused of being the ringleader of the prostitution ring that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer apparently patronized was found with an Israeli passport in his apartment, the Associated Press reports. Mark Brener, 62, of Cliffside Park, N.J., is being held without bail after the passport and $600,000 in cash were found…
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Bintel Brief: Shoshanna Rikon Says ‘Concentrate on What Is in Front of You’
Dear Shoshanna, I recently broke up with my girlfriend of many years, which was a tough, but correct, decision. While we were dating, I considered breaking up with her over a woman for whom I can only describe my feelings as intoxicating (the reason why I didn’t was because I was going to move away…
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Israelis Could Learn Something From Prince Harry
Back in 2005, Prince Harry sparked widespread outrage by wearing a Nazi armband to a costume party. Although he quickly apologized for the stunt, the incident only served to confirm his reputation as a black sheep of the British royal family. What a difference three years makes. Now, Harry has shaped up into a model…
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Scottish Pro-Palestinian Activists Gear Up To Protest… Goldie Hawn
Scotland’s Daily Record reports: HOLLYWOOD A-lister Goldie Hawn will walk into a storm of protest when she visits Scotland this weekend. Campaigners are outraged she has agreed to attend Sunday’s fundraising banquet for the Jewish National Fund at Glasgow’s Hilton Hotel. John Wight, spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: “She will get a very…
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Guardian Editor: Sorry About That 9/11-Jenin Comparison
The editor of Britain’s left-wing Guardian newspaper is saying sorry for a 2002 editorial that argued that “Israel’s actions in Jenin were every bit as repellent as Osama Bin Laden’s attack on New York on September 11.” The editorial came in the wake of Israel’s military incursions into the Jenin, which sparked media reports —…
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Does John Hagee Love Jews Too Much for His Own Good?
One thing that’s easy to miss in the brouhaha over McCain endorser Pastor John Hagee’s supposed anti-Catholicism is the context in which he made his controversial remarks. Many of the remarks that have been pointed to by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights chief Bill Donohue as evidence of the pastor’s anti-Catholicism were made…
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