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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Yoffie Off-Balance, Larry David Speaks, ‘Bentsh it Like Beckham’
YOFFIE OFF-BALANCE: New Jersey Jewish News editor Andrew Silow-Carroll offers a characteristically thoughtful analysis of Reform movement leader Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s headline-grabbing speech to the Islamic Society of North America. On the one hand, he hails Yoffie as “American Jewry’s Daniel, boldly strolling into lions’ dens.” But Silow-Carroll also suggests that in Yoffie’s speech, much…
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The Pain in Norman Ornstein’s Tuchas
Quotable Washingtonian Norman Ornstein has a fun piece in The New Republic complaining that he’s always getting labeled a neocon because he’s based at the American Enterprise Institute. In fact, Ornstein explains, he’s “one of those Jurassic-era Washingtonians who believes in the virtues of centrism and bipartisanship.” But, predictably, it’s not only Ornstein’s AEI affiliation…
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Sarah Silverman Channels Al Jolson
Daily News gossip Ben Widdicombe reports: Preview copies of the next season of “The Sarah Silverman Program,” to air next month, are already raising eyebrows. In one of the first installments, the comedian gets a rise out of wearing blackface. “The theme is, Sarah is rejected from a club because she’s a Jew,” says a…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Loving Rudy, Murder Mystery, Groovy Shabbat
ARMENIANS AND US: Harvard Armenian studies professor James Russell offers a broad — and personal — take on Armenian-Jewish relations in Boston’s Jewish Advocate. “Armenia has strong ties to Iran and Syria; Israel has a strategic alliance with Turkey. We Jews need not apologize to anybody: Our country is in a dangerous neighborhood,” Russell writes….
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Neoconservatism: Not Just for Jews Anymore
Neoconservatives have variously been pigeonholed as crazed former Trotskyites, duplicitous Straussians and American Likudniks. Often, “neoconservative” seems to simply be used as shorthand (or code) for “conservative Jewish intellectual.” Since the Iraq war, however, the term has entered popular usage. What it means now is a little difficult to put one’s finger on, as a…
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Yid Vid: This You Call a Music Video?
I don’t know, I sort of like it. Orthodox music blogger Life of Rubin isn’t too impressed though: It’s like they don’t even try anymore to make anything out of the video. I’m sorry, but this is not what a music video is supposed to be. Absolutely nothing happens during this video. Nothing. It’s just…
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Bintel Brief: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Tackles a Conversion Conundrum
Dear Rabbi Boteach, Thirty-plus years ago I converted to Judaism; this has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life. I have a troubled relationship with my brother and his wife; religion is among the many differences my wife and I have with them. We’ve reached a reasonable, arm’s-length relationship. For business…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Aliyah at 99, Exceptionalism Moratorium, Coat Fetish Crime, Etc.
AGE-OLD DREAM: Dina Noth, a 99-year-old resident of the Hebrew Home for the Aged, is set to make aliyah to Israel. “As far as we know, she’s the oldest person we’ve sent [to Israel] in the last 10 years,” New York-based aliyah emissary Boaz Herman told New York’s Jewish Week. Also in the Jewish Week:…
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Dude, Where’s Shimon Peres, and Other Celebrity Kabbalah News
The Jerusalem Post reports (following up on an article in Yediot Aharonot) that a bevy of celebrities is headed for Israel for Rosh Hashanah. They’re all stars smitten by the voodoo that Kabbalah Centre does so well: Madonna, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and Donna Karan. The Post’s best tidbit, however, is the following: Kutcher, best…
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Books Goodbye, Grace
Writer Grace Paley died yesterday. A New York Times obit says that, “In a sense, her work was about what happened to the women that Roth and Bellow and Malamud’s men had loved and left behind.” Paley was 84.
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Israeli Men Go Metrosexual — All the Way Down to Their Underwear
Thanks to globalization, the market for men’s fashion in Israel has grown significantly in recent years. But are all Israeli men becoming label-obsessed, skinny jean-clad metrosexuals? Sure, the Internet and men’s fashion mags might be providing these guys with a bit more (badly needed) fashion sense, but is that good for the Jews? Haaretz reports…
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