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What’s Missing From Jewish Life in Israel? Decent Chinese Food
Reuters reports: Asian restaurants across the country went on a one-day spring roll strike on Tuesday in protest over government plans to rid kitchens of foreign chefs, and said sushi and noodles would be the next items off the menu. The restaurants are angry at the state’s plans to purge Japanese, Chinese and Thai eateries…
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Jews and Genes: Who Are We? And How Did We Get Here?
Diana Muir Appelbaum and Paul S. Appelbaum have done a fascinating round-up for The Jerusalem Post of what genetics research reveals about the origins of various Jewish sub-populations. While there’s not much new for people who closely follow news about this area of research, the Appelbaums’ article is great because is puts all the data…
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Too Racy for Print, But Kosher for Shul
The JTA reports: The Seattle Times refused to run an ad for a National Council of Jewish Women-sponsored production. The Times said it would not print an ad for the Feb. 24 production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” unless the artwork was altered, according to Lauren Simonds, the executive director of the council’s Seattle…
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Michael Chabon Is ‘Over the Moon’
The JTA has a great story fleshing out the recent news that the Coen brothers will be making a movie based on Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.” “Naturally, I am over the moon about this,” Chabon wrote in an e-mail to JTA. “They are heroes of mine.” All in all, it has been a…
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Till 120! (Been There, Done That)
Y-Net reports: Does the oldest woman in the world live in Israel? The clerks at the local Interior Ministry branch in Hadera were stunned to discover Monday that one of the applicants for a renewal of her identity card claims to have been born 120 years ago, in 1888. The woman, an elderly resident from…
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Tony Judt’s Particularism Problem
First, historian Tony Judt griped that the character of the Israeli state was too Jewish, labeling it the “an anachronism.” Now, he’s complaining that the lens through which we view the Holocaust is too Jewish. He warns that we’re exaggerating the threat posed by contemporary antisemitism, and that in tying “the memory of the Holocaust…
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Hamas Bunny on Jews: ‘I Will Eat Them Up’
First there was Farfur, the pro-terror Mickey Mouse knock-off. After an international outcry, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV made the mouse a martyr, showing him being beaten to death on his children’s program by an Israeli character. Now, the Daily News reports, Al-Aqsa is using a bunny to promote hatred of Jews: Hamas has reached a new…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Gentiles for Zion, Trimming Israel’s Leaders, Goldie Hawn Saves the Day
GENTILES FOR ISRAEL: Two articles in two different Jewish newspapers from opposite ends of the country focus on non-Jews who are taking leadership positions in pro-Israel organizations. The Jewish Advocate reports on three gentiles who are involved with the Boston branch of the Jewish National Fund, while San Francisco’s J. speaks with the new non-Jewish…
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Using ‘Counterinsurgency’ Tactics, Hasidic Principal Restores Order to Troubled South Bronx School
The heroic educator who swoops in and rescues students at a troubled inner-city school is a favorite Hollywood trope: Think Jim Belushi in “The Principal,” Michelle Pfeiffer in “Dangerous Minds,” Edward James Olmos in “Stand and Deliver,” Morgan Freeman in “Lean on Me,” etc. This Friday’s New York Times featured a real-life story that is,…
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Jews and Pirates: Were We the ‘Brains Behind Their Brawn’?
The JTA reports: The discovery of an ancient cemetery in Jamaica has stirred speculation that Jews used to take part in piracy. Several Jewish graves were found outside Kingston last week, some of them marked with the skull and crossbones, Yediot Achronot reported Thursday. The classic symbol of piracy suggests there were Jews involved in…
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Even Sy Hersh Doesn’t Know What the Israelis Bombed in Syria
Seymour Hersh, who cover’s the spooks and cloak-and-dagger beat for The New Yorker, has spent the past three months trying to figure out what exactly it was that Israeli warplanes bombed in the Syrian desert in that mysterious raid back in September. And he still doesn’t know the answer. He doesn’t seem to think it…
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