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Bintel Brief: Catie Lazarus Has the Last Laugh
Dear Catie, Sarah Silverman and Sacha Baron Cohen are two of my favorite comedians. Unfortunately, while I enjoy their comedy, I also feel conflicted, because they both can be quite cruel. Earlier this month, MTV Video Music Awards host Sarah Silverman showed no mercy toward Britney Spears after the pop star’s embarrassing performance on the…
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Mr. Katz Is Famous
This Sunday’s New York Times featured a great profile of the Yiddish Forward’s Mr. Katz: BORN in Poland in 1936, Louis Katz was at a young age smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto to a farm outside the city, where he lived with a family that treated him as a grandchild. To shield him from…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Sy Hersh Speaks, Visiting With Chabon and Waldman, Davening Discharge
DRIFTING RIGHT: As the Seattle Kollel marks its sweet 16, some fear that the Orthodox-run educational organization is pulling the city’s Orthodox community to the right, toward ultra-Orthodoxy. Seattle’s Jewish Transcript has the story. SY HERSH SPEAKS: The New Yorker’s legendary intelligence reporter Seymour Hersh talks with the L.A. Jewish Journal about the Bush administration…
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Fun With Judaism (Not Just for Hippies)
Jennifer Bleyer, the founding editor of Heeb magazine and one of the my favorite young writers on Jewish (and non-Jewish) topics, has written a great first-person piece for Nextbook on “The Jewish Catalog,” the counterculture-era Do-It-Yourself compendium that taught her parents’ generation that Judaism “could be fun.” And she thought it was pretty cool, too….
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Adventures in Moheling
Max Mintz shares some fun anecdotes about his work as a traveling mohel with Houston’s Jewish Herald-Voice: One of his strangest experiences occurred earlier this year, when he was invited to a brit milah in Tulsa, Okla. “When I arrived in Tulsa, my bags did not arrive with me, which was not good, since I…
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It’s Official: I’m Not Hip
Leave it to Heeb magazine to make me feel inadequate. I live in Brooklyn. I have black-frame glasses. I even was at last year’s Sonic Youth/Yeah Yeah Yeahs concert in McCarren Pool. And yet, for all this, I’ve heard of only a paltry 10 of the people featured in this year’s Heeb 100. Thanks a…
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Revising Israel’s Law of Return
In the wake of the arrests of a gang of neo-Nazis in Israel, Yair Sheleg has some provocative but sensible proposals for overhauling Israel’s Law of Return.
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When a Jew Is Not a Jew
Thankfully San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew, charged today with mail fraud by federal prosecutors, is not one of us. Alas, neither is Norman Jewison.
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Where Is the International Solidarity Movement Now?
Yesterday’s lengthy New York Times article on the plight of Gaza merchants — including an arms-smuggler named Muhammad — featured the following gem: Hamas is working with the Egyptians to destroy unauthorized tunnels, Muhammad said, while the Egyptians, under pressure from the United States and Israel, have recently changed all the security officers along the…
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The Edible Etrog
The following recipes make practical use of the traditionally symbolic etrog, infusing flavors of Sukkot into sweet treats perfect for meals under the sukkah. Etrog Jam 1 etrog 1 orange sugar water 1) Wash the etrog and orange and cut them in half lengthwise, and then very thinly slice them. 2) Remove seeds. 3) Soak…
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Yid Vid: Rappelling Y.U.
Don’t jump! Not even if you have a rope. That’s the message Yeshiva University sent to its students after some daredevils posted a video to YouTube of them rappelling from the Modern Orthodox university’s tallest buildings. The Florida Jewish News has the full story. The video is below: According to the paper, Yeshiva’s dean of…
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