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Ekev: Everyday Awe
This week, my kids started Camp Mommy. They’re done with camp until the beginning of the school year, so we call the rest of the summer “Camp Mommy.” Camp Mommy means play dates and day trips. It also means getting anything accomplished is nearly impossible. It means I’m exhausted, but it also means that I…
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Steve Cohen, Representing a Black District, Faces Down Racially Oriented Opponent
Congressman Steve Cohen was the first to pass a resolution apologizing for black slavery; He frequently joins African-American voters in his district in dancing and singing; Cohen even asked to become a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, a request that was denied due to the group’s policy of accepting only black lawmakers. But still,…
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Debate Over Homosexuality Now Roiling Orthodox Jews
On a single week in late July, a major flashpoint in the internal culture wars of the Orthodox world erupted in two unrelated but connected incidents. The issue was homosexuality. A group of nearly 90 Orthodox rabbis chose July 22 to release their “Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews With a Homosexual Orientation…
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At Kosher Feast, Fried Locusts for Dessert
At the Eucalyptus, a restaurant just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, 250 Orthodox Jews gathered in late July to learn Talmud and to discover what meat-and-milk tastes like. The meat had been marinating in milk for, well, almost a lifetime. The dish was udder of cow, which, as the many rabbis in attendance pointed out,…
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In the Tel Aviv Bus Station, Underground Economy Flourishes, Legal and Not
The restaurant and dance club Selam has all the hallmarks of an inspiring Israeli success story. Selam is owned and operated by Yaacov, an Eritrean refugee who trekked across the Sinai desert and risked his life to reach the Jewish state. Now in the country three years, Yaacov — who would give only his first…
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Name Game: How Traditional Is The Conservative Movement?
What’s in a name? Lately, that age-old question has become a burning issue for leaders of Conservative Judaism. Once the largest of American Judaism’s denominational streams, the movement today, though still significant, faces declining membership, financial difficulties and confusion about what it stands for. The confusion is in part a result of lost distinctions as…
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Israeli Feminists Debate Rape Charge
Feminist groups in Israel find themselves divided over a recent court ruling on rape that liberal groups condemn as tainted with racism. In the July 19 ruling, a married Arab father of two was found guilty of “rape-by-deception” for having sexual intercourse with a Jewish woman after introducing himself as a Jewish bachelor. He was…
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Small Blast Damages a Swedish Synagogue
A local Jewish leader reported that fears and tensions were rising in his community in Malmo, Sweden, after a small explosive device went off at the door of the local synagogue early on the morning of July 23. Though no one was hurt, the blast’s impact shattered three windows and damaged the remaining five windows…
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Jazzy Celebration
‘Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work’ Works the Crowds Across Time In her July 23 appearance on CBS’s “Late Show With David Letterman,“ female standup comic, jewelry hawker and “Celebrity Apprentice” winner Joan Rivers demonstrated uncharacteristic restraint as she revisited the angst she experienced from the former host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson, who…
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Ketubah Artist to the People
When Tsilli Pines was planning to wed in 2005 and couldn’t find a ketubah (the official Jewish marriage document), that reflected her own taste, she rolled up her sleeves and made one herself. The Portland, Ore.-based graphic designer, who has lent creative juices to the online presences of David Bowie and Robert Mondavi Wines, had…
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Yid Lit: Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart is a best-selling novelist and globetrotter. He came to this country with his family from Leningrad in 1979, and his work has become a touchstone of literature about the Russian Jewish immigrant experience. His third novel is now out, “Super Sad True Love Story” (Random House) and in it, the sweet if schlubby…
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