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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Nylon in the Temple, Super Bowl Pioneer, Sing-Song Shoah?
CROWN HEIGHTS REDUX: Jewish activists in Crown Heights — the Brooklyn Lubavitcher stronghold that became synonymous with the word “riot” in the 1990s — are faulting police over their response to a number of recent attacks on Jews in the neighborhood. Also in the Jewish Week: Israel correspondent Michele Chabin takes a look at the…
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Will Yalies March on the Sun?
The expensively educated elitists over at The New York Sun are making like they’re U.S. News & World Report. They’ve developed an ever-so-scientific system for grading New York City’s elite private schools. The Sun’s methodology: The New York Sun has assigned its own letter grades, using a mathematical formula that takes into account the school’s…
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This Week in Weird Holocaust/Nazi Imagery…
Brazilian Jews are angry at the Viradouro samba school for its plans for a Holocaust- themed Carnival float, complete with sculpted piles of dead bodies. The school defended its float. Reuters reports: “The float is extremely respectful, it’s a warning, it’s something shocking that we don’t want to happen ever again,” said Paulo Barros, Viradouro’s…
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Bintel Brief: Lisa Loeb Says Honesty Is the Best Policy
Dear Lisa, Not too long ago, a friend set me up on a blind date. Being a very shy person, I was naturally a bit nervous. But the guy was perfectly nice, and we had a pleasant conversation. There was no chemistry between us, however, which I recognized at the time, and so I planned…
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Chief Rabbi Metzger Says Build a Palestinian State in the Sinai Desert, It Will Be ‘Like in Arizona’
Israel’s Ashkenazic chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, tells an interviewer that it’s not his place to talk politics, and then he proceeds to talk politics. Metzger weighs in with his thoughts on Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and why the Sinai Desert would make a nice spot for a Palestinian state: Hat tip: Ha’aretz, which summarizes the…
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Roto: No Country for Eating Lox
Annette Wolfe of Norwalk, Conn., writes: Killington, Vt., is a wonderful area filled with tourist attractions for any time of the year. The winter season attracts skiers of all abilities. Hundreds flock when snow is abundant. Fireplaces roar and make a nice setting for a big mug of hot chocolate. The summer months arrive, and…
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A Living Lens: A Globe-Trotting Rabbi
I received a lovely note today from Dov Burt Levy, a columnist for the Jewish Journal North of Boston, who passed along the review he wrote of “A Living Lens.” Readers should, of course, peruse the whole piece, but there’s a lovely tidbit at the end that I can’t help but highlighting: Because the Jewish…
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Yid Vid: ‘Beatles’ vs. Julie Andrews
The Beatles video is, of course, dubbed. The Fab Four didn’t really sing in the mameloshn, though they were, apparently, known to warble a bit in German.
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Beatings and Burkas in Beit Shemesh
Something has gone horribly wrong in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Zealots within the haredi community in that Israeli city near Jerusalem have engaged in sometimes violent confrontations with their secular and Modern Orthodox neighbors, as well as other ultra-Orthodox Jews. Even The New York Times has taken notice. Back in September, the paper of record reported…
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Were Babs and Bobby Buddies?
The New York Times has an interesting article on the recently deceased chess genius and Jewish antisemite Bobby Fischer. The Times tracks down Joseph Virovatz, a Holocaust survivor and fellow chess player who was a longtime friend of Fischer’s. In Fischer’s younger days, the two would eat Hungarian food together on the Lower East Side….
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Foxman Noodges Obama, Endogamy’s Ticking Clock, Britain’s ‘Lobby’ Lashers
FOXMAN NOODGES OBAMA: The Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman may have hailed Barack Obama for repudiating his church magazine’s decision to honor Louis Farrakhan. But Foxman tells the New York Jewish Week that Obama should go further in distancing himself from his church’s controversial minister, Jeremiah Wright. “He’s distanced himself from his pastor’s decision to honor…
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