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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Methodist Madness, Ahmadinejad’s Rabbinic Embrace, Summer Camp Confessions
Et tu, United Methodists of New England? Boston’s Jewish Advocate reports on the latest group of mainline Protestants to jump on the divest-from-Israel bandwagon. The Connecticut Jewish Ledger remembers Pfc Daniel Agami of Parkland, Fla., as part of its series on Jewish soldiers killed in Iraq. May his memory be a blessing. The New York…
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A Cut Above the Rest: In Search of the Perfect Mohel
Sam Apple, author of the delightful [“Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past With Its Last Wandering Shepherd,”]( (http://www.samapple.com/ ‘“Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past With Its Last Wandering Shepherd,”’) has just published a hilarious essay on the Los Angeles Times Web site about his search for a…
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Hamas Chief: Oy! Such Tsoris We Have — And Now This?
Okay, so I took some liberties with that title. Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal doesn’t really pepper his speech with Yiddishisms. I do think, however, that the title is a fair summation of the sentiment behind this funny phrasing (reported by the AP): In an interview broadcast Wednesday on Hamas TV in Gaza, Khaled Mashaal, the…
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Ehud Olmert: ‘First of All I’m Jewish, Then I’m Israeli’
Speaking to this week’s grandiosely named “Conference on the Future of the Jewish People,” convened by the equally grandiosely (and tongue-twistingly) named Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared that he identifies as a Jew first, and an Israeli second. Y-Net reports: “If I was asked today, which I am sometimes,…
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Former WJC Candidate Gives Her Thumbs Up to Israel’s Lad-Mag Diplomacy
Running against billionaires like cosmetics heir Ron Lauder, Einat Wilf didn’t have much of a chance of winning the election to lead the World Jewish Congress, and ultimately she bowed out of the race. The former foreign policy adviser to Shimon Peres tells the blog Jewess that she had “no realistic expectation of winning,” but…
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‘Holy Ethnic Dissolution, Batman!’
What if Batman and Robin worked in the American Jewish community? Eli Valley offers up a clever exposition of this silly scenario in a comic on the Web site Jewcy.
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Paula Abdul Sandwiched Between Two Rabbis
Here’s a cute video: Paula Abdul in conversation with two Orthodox rabbis, both competing to sing her praises. (She lights candles on Friday nights, and goes to shul on Saturday mornings!) How sweet! And all the while some cheesy pop music is playing in the background. Hat Tip: L.A. Jewish Journal.
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Take My Love Life, Please
Like many young New Yorkers, the folks who write Heeb magazine’s blog evidently spend a lot of time perusing the Craig’s List real estate listings — and it paid off for them. They stumbled upon this one-of-kind sublet.
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Harlem’s Withering Shul, Temple Tug-of-War, Buying the Boycott
The New York Jewish Week reports on the withering of Harlem’s Commandment Keepers, “the nation’s oldest African-American [Jewish] congregation,” Also in The Jewish Week: Producers of a new musical look for an actor to play a Hasid who falls in love with a Brooklyn hipster, and Cynthia Ozick rips the paper’s coverage of Tova Reich’s…
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Michael Lerner: The Case for Spam
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine and author of frequent (and lengthy) e-mail missives, makes the case that efforts to prohibit e-mail spam could hurt “social change organizations.” To those who would argue that they have a sweeping right not to have their inboxes invaded by spam (even from nonprofits), Lerner retorts: The real…
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Bintel Brief: Alan Dershowitz Offers His Counsel
Alan Dershowitz is one of the most famous names in the American legal profession, his counsel highly sought after. Now he will be offering his counsel to our readers, as the guest Bintel Brief advice columnist for the month of July. In addition to his stellar legal career, the famed Harvard Law professor has distinguished…
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