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Phoenix Mayor Challenges Popular Sheriff’s Anti-Immigration Tactics
Phoenix — At first glance, Mayor Phil Gordon’s office in downtown Phoenix looks like that of any other mayor, replete with photos of his kids and a sweeping view of the city. In the case of Arizona’s capital, that means rolling desert hills. But in an otherwise sparsely decorated workspace, one detail stands out: a…
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Blogger Focuses on Orthodox Foibles
Picking up the phone at 4:30 in the afternoon, Shmarya Rosenberg answered in a voice still bleary from sleep. He explained that he was just napping after having blogged the whole night, and most of the morning. “It’s hard to do one of these blogs,” Rosenberg said. “It owns you. It’s terrible. If I had…
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Public Relations Firm Criticized
Is all fair in love and PR? Some public relations industry observers say that 5WPR, the firm that represents the embattled kosher meat company Agriprocessors, crossed an ethical line when an employee apparently impersonated Agriprocessors critics online. The controversy over 5WPR is, in the context of Jewish affairs, an odd spin-off of the ongoing saga…
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As Camp Sale Falls Through, Alums Remain Hopeful
Los Angeles — In a surprise turnabout, troubles in the real-estate market have scuttled a controversial plan to sell a beloved Jewish summer camp in Northern California to a Christian group, reviving the possibility that the camp might remain in Jewish hands. The facility, Camp Swig, is one of the oldest summer camps of Reform…
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The Bokhers of Summer
Peyes swing from under Yankees caps, and players sling Yiddish jeers from the outfield, when the Stormers take the hardtop for their Sunday games at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. The teams of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Softball League reflect the boro’s inimitable patchwork of cultures, and the Stormers — with a hardworking 3-23 record — represent Williamsburg’s sizable…
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Summer Lovin’ Outside the City
Most of the time, I am self-righteous and self-congratulatory about my choice to raise children in the city. I pontificate about the myriad cuuuuultural opportunities and diveeeeersity; I boast about being able to walk everywhere; I coo about living in a tenement just like the ones our huddled-mass Jewish ancestors yearned to escape. I am…
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Lieberman Boosts Controversial Evangelical
Washington — Senator Joseph Lieberman recently got a double dose of Jewish folk songs. On July 21, a day camp girls’ choir at a South Florida synagogue greeted him with “Hevenu Shalom Aleichem.” The next day he heard exactly the same song, only this time it was performed by a young, enthusiastic Christian group that…
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Invoking Rosa Parks, Haredi Women Move to Back of the Bus
Haifa, Israel — Leaders of the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate are calling on women to keep out of men’s eyesight whenever they travel by bus — by making their way to the back of the vehicle. The directive, issued by the so-called Rabbinical Transportation Committee, is being distributed to thousands of schoolgirls and seminary students and posted…
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Yid.Dish: Simple Borscht & Dilly Beet Greens
As a kid growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley, I learned a lot about the Iroquois, the group of Native American tribes indigenous to that area. I loved to hear about the stories, beliefs, language, and everyday practices that made up the traditional Iroquois way of life. But what fascinated me the most was,…
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Jesse Jackson’s Cutting Comment
NEWS ITEM: In a burst of anger over a speech delivered by Barack Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told a colleague that he felt like castrating the presidential contender. Jackson did not realize his remark was being picked up by a live microphone. When Jackson feels the urge to vent, He’s apt to wax inelegant….
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Talansky Lawyer Is Communal Insider With His Own Past Scandal
Jerusalem — Morris Talansky, the Long Island businessman at the center of the allegations of financial impropriety swirling around Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has retained the services of an American lawyer and longtime Jewish communal insider who himself is no stranger to scandal. Neal Sher, a former leader of the Justice Department’s Nazi prosecution unit…
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