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Springtime for Schlubby Jewish Guys: A Forward Legend Follows in Seth Rogen’s Footsteps
Former Forward staffer Max Gross is not only my friend. He is also my hero. When he wasn’t busy writing some of the strangest stories ever published in a Jewish newspaper, Max was kind enough to give Forward readers a glimpse into his exciting personal life. As his not-so-alter ego “the Hapless Jewish Writer,” Max…
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Michael Ledeen: Secret Forward Writer
American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Ledeen takes a trip down memory lane in a post on National Review Online: Many years ago, at the request of Seth Lipsky, I wrote a serialized novel for The Forward about Jim Angleton’s complex and important relationship with the Israeli internal security service, the Shin Bet. The tradition of…
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Western Walls Aplenty
News from Sotheby’s London is that the it will auction “The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem,” by German-born Jewish artist Gustav Bauernfeind. The estimate given in the press release is £600,000-800,000. It’s the latest in a line of pictorial depictions of the site to hit the auction block, as Jeannie Rosenfeld reported last month. And, compared to…
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Bintel Brief: Rabbi Irwin Kula Addresses a Reader’s Burial Bind
Dear Rabbi Kula, My grandfather, to whom I have always been very close, has put me in an impossible situation. He was born Jewish but was never at all religious. His wife, my grandmother, is a devout Catholic. They raised their children as Catholics. Now, totally out of the blue, he has confided in me…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers
The New York Jewish Week examines the unlikely nexus between Orthodox Judaism and surfing. Southern California’s Joe V. Surf Camp recently brought together 24 young, religious wave-riders. “Kids need more than just Babylonian Talmud to gain a sense of Jewish pride,” camp co-founder Ari Soshtain told the Jewish Week. “Surfing is unbelievable exercise, seeing how…
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Olympic Logo Rorschach Test
An article in today’s New York Times reports that the newly-unveiled — and wildly unpopular — logo for the 2012 London Olympics has, among other things, been compared to a swastika. But not all have seen grounds for charging antisemitism. Daniel Finkelstein of the London Times sees embedded in the design the word “zion.”
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Former Jewish Agency Chief Avraham Burg Rejects Idea of a ‘Jewish State’
Former Knesset speaker and ex-head of the Jewish Agency Avraham Burg has sparked quite a brouhaha with a recent interview in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. Among other things, he said that “to define the State of Israel as a Jewish state is the key to its end. A Jewish state is explosive. It’s dynamite.” Ha’aretz’s…
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How About the Bundist in an X-L?
Forward contributor Raphael Mostel had a tidbit for the NYT’s Metropolitan Diary about the opening of the Museum of the City of New York exhibition celebrating our 110th anniversary.
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A Rabbi in the Batcave
What is it with rabbis and superheroes? First, there was Rabbi Simcha Weinstein’s “Up Up and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History Culture and Values Shaped The Comic Book Superhero.” Now, the New Jersey Jewish News tells us about Batman aficionado Rabbi Cary Friedman and his book, “Wisdom from the Batcave: How to Live a Super…
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Aussie Prankster Finds Club That Won’t Have Him as a Member: The KKK
On his new Sundance show “John Safran vs. God,” John Safran travels to America to join the Ku Klux Klan. But he finds it’s not easy convincing a KKK Grand Dragon to admit a Jew, no matter how non-practicing or self-loathing he may profess to be. My favorite part of their exchange: SAFRAN: Wasn’t there…
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A Casualty of the Six Day War: Judaism
In a withering j’accuse, Ha’aretz’s Bradley Burston makes the case that “while the Jewish state survived the war, Judaism as we knew it — Orthodox Judaism in particular — did not.” Burston writes: If absolute occupation corrupts absolutely, no group would be more corrupted by Israel’s presence in the territories than rightist rabbis. Of course,…
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