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Correction: Muslims, Jews Worship Same God
Here’s a great correction from Sunday’s New York Times: A headline last Sunday about a Muslim man and an Orthodox Jewish woman who are partners in two Dunkin’ Donuts stores described their religions incorrectly. The two faiths worship the same God — not different ones. Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan. As an industrious collector of amusing…
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Bintel Brief: Yitz and Blu Greenberg Peer Across the Denominational Divide
Dear Rabbi and Rebbetzin, I am a convert to Judaism and have been living a “Conservadox” life for about 15 years. My conversion was traditional, with all of the rites, including hatafot dam brit, immersion and questioning before a beit din [rabbinic court] after a period of about two years of study. However, the rabbi…
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Saudi Envoy Calls Kettle Black
How’s this for jaw-dropping hypocrisy? The JTA reports: Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States rejected recognizing Israel as a Jewish state “There are 1.5 million civilians in Israel who do not define themselves as Jewish,” Adel al-Jubeir told reporters at the U.S.-convened Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Annapolis, Md. “We do not believe states should…
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Yarmulkes for Geeks
Yesterday Douglas Vos, founder of Facebook’s Designing With Web Standards Group, rallied his troops, urging supporters of better Web standards to show their unity by donning blue beanies for a day. His post: Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Jews vs. Hamsters, Pews That Pay, Messianic Judaism Backfires
SCI-FI SHABBAT: An annual science-fiction convention adds Shabbat services to its programming, the L.A. Jewish Journal reports. JEWS AGAINST HAMSTERS: A Philadelphia alternative weekly is in hot water for putting a hamster dressed as an Orthodox Jew on the cover of its holiday issue. Critics say equating Jews with rodents has an ugly history. An…
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Yid Vid: Sarah Silverman for the Writers
Beth of Jewlicious thinks this video just goes to show that Sarah Silverman’s “a moron.” I disagree. I think she actually makes the writers’ case pretty well, albeit in her typical comic faux-moron fashion. Read the comments on the Jewlicious post for a lively debate about whether Silverman is funny or just vulgar. (I say:…
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John Podhoretz Spins a Saudi Prince
Here’s future Commentary editor John Podhoretz’s take on a recent interview that Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, gave to Time magazine: He says he will refuse to shake Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s hand, even though he is a seeker after peace. He never says there will be peace with Israel, only “normalization,” and…
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Bintel Brief: Blu and Yitz Greenberg Say Don’t ‘Get’ Revenge on Your Ex
Dear Blu and Yitz, On lawyer’s advice, my (ex-)wife refuses to accept a get (yet the divorce is all her doing), and for over 10 years refuses me regular visits with our children. (The visits are irregular, essentially when she feels like it, on her lawyer’s advice.) My question is, when she decides she wants…
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To Be Thankful, or Not to Be Thankful for Thanksgiving — That Is the Question
For most American Jews, Thanksgiving is a no-brainer. You get together with family, you eat — what’s not to like? Well, it turns out, Rabbi Jill Jacobs — who writes consistently thoughtful posts for Jewish Funds for Justice’s blog JSpot — is no fan of the holiday. But unlike some ultra-Orthodox Jews (see this article…
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‘Sunday School in a Box’
San Francisco’s amusingly named Jewish weekly, J., has an amusing story about a new Jewish quiz game that you can play at home called “Given.” It begins as follows: The Newtons had a Shabbat routine. Every Saturday, Erik quizzed his two sons about Jewish ideas, customs and prayers. “It made us feel more Jewish,” said…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Cleveland’s Chinese Jews, Baltimore’s ‘Batman,’ St. Louis’s Reform Catholics
DEAR JEW: New Jersey Jewish News editor Andrew Silow Carroll makes like ‘Ask a Mexican’ columnist Gustavo Arellano. CHINESE ARE JEWS, TOO: The Cleveland Jewish News speaks with five Chinese children who were adopted by local Jewish families and are now near bar and bat mitzvah age. SARAH’S SIS: Comedian Sarah Silverman’s rabbi sister spills…
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