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The Roto Returns: He Yo-Yo’s for a Cause
Thirteen-year-old Daniel Dietz of Florence, Mass., writes: Right after my Bar Mitzvah I joined the B’nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy program, where we each choose our favorite cause to donate to, and we learn all about philanthropy and how to maximize our fundraising. I wanted to raise money for the Smile Train, an organization that is…
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In Defense of ‘Self-Hating Jews’
Ha’aretz’s Bradley Burston writes that we could learn something from them, and that the Muslim world could use some self-haters of its own.
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The New Yorker Weighs in on the Avraham Burg Affair
New Yorker editor David Remnick revisits last month’s Avraham Burg brouhaha in a characteristically judicious and thoughtful dispatch from Israel. The full New Yorker article is here. Hat tip: Jewschool.
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In Israel, a Record Is Broken — and Canada Is Crushed
Ha’aretz reports: Israeli Arabs from across Israel danced their way hand in hand into the Guiness Book of World Records on Sunday after they held the largest and longest group performance of the “Debke” dance inside the walls of the Old City of Acre. A record 2,743 people danced for seven minutes straight holding hands…
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Bintel Brief: Alan Dershowitz Says Being a Pro-Israel Liberal Doesn’t Mean Being Lonely
Dear Prof. Dershowitz, I am a very politically liberal Jew. However, I find great discomfort with liberal activist organizations when it comes to Israel. Their messages are frequently strident and are often indistinguishable between being anti-Israel and antisemitic. Equally problematic is finding myself in the camp of the neo-cons and other right-wing groups in their…
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Einstein on Long Island: A Poor Sailor Wearing Feminine ‘Sundials’
David Rothman, a Cutchogue, N.Y., department store owner, shares his boyhood memories of Albert Einstein with The New York Times. In the summer 1939, the famed physicist relaxed by sailing (not very capably) the Long Island Sound in a boat called the Tinef — Yiddish for “worthless” or “junk.” Apparently it was “his happiest summer…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Artists vs. Rhinoplasty, Sadness in Tehrangeles, The Case for ‘Red Ken’, Etc.
‘SHE SEES DEAD PEOPLE’: The Chicago Jewish News visits with a local Jewish psychic. “For the past 35 years, I’ve been speaking to dead people,” Ruth Berger tells the newspaper. “They come into my home, they stop me on the street, they wake me from a sound sleep. Ghosts have no boundaries.” ARTISTS AGAINST RHINOPLASTY:…
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Worst Argument for Staying in Iraq… Ever
Should we stay in Iraq because kids are dying in Chicago? This silly shot at Barak Obama came to our attention via the Republican Jewish Coalition’s blog. But the RJC’s blogger seems to like the reasoning.
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Ha’aretz to American Jews: Reconsider Opposition to Gov’t Support for Religious Schools
The liberal Israeli daily Ha’aretz is urging American Jews to reconsider one of the cornerstones of our community’s liberalism: opposition to government funding for religious schools. In an editorial on the importance of Jewish education for maintaining Jewish identity, citing in particular the effectiveness of day schools, Ha’aretz writes: If Jewish community leaders in the…
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Bintel Brief: Alan Dershowitz Examines Whether Hamas Opinion Articles Are Fit To Print
Professor Dershowitz, Do you think that the publishing of opinion articles by Hamas officials in The New York Times and The Washington Post constitutes material support to terrorists as defined in the Patriot Act? Thank you for all of your great and inspiring work on behalf of Israel. FIT TO PRINT? Alan Dershowitz replies: I…
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Reparations and the Couch
A group representing children of Holocaust survivors is demanding that Germany cover the costs of psychiatric treatment to alleviate cross-generational trauma they suffer. The group filed a class-action lawsuit in Tel Aviv calling for establishment of a fund to pay for regular therapy sessions for 15,000 to 20,000 people, Time magazine reports. Commentary’s Gabriel Schoenfeld…
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