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Frum Entertainment: A Survey
The look I received from the proprietor of Heichal Judaica, A bookstore in Brooklyn’s heavily Orthodox Midwood district, was understandably puzzled, bordering on suspicious. After all, my yarmulke may have said yes-yes, but my jeans and sneakers said no-no. As it turns out, I was in the market for some frum Jewish entertainment and wanted…
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Four Israeli films that focus on personal identity and sexuality are presented in the Faigele Film Festival, the JCC in Manhattan’s third annual LGBTQ movie series. The program opens with Orna Ben Dor’s “Mom, I Didn’t Kill Your Daughter” (2007), which tells parallel stories of two men who discover that they were actually born female….
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Same-Sex Marriage Is Kosher!
In California, judges rule That same-sex marriages are cool. A girl may now a female wed, Two males may share a marriage-bed. It’s legal, on the up-and-up, So drain the brimming loving-cup! This novelty connubial Is all quite constitutional. The justices from bench explain Anatomy is not germane. What counts and matters, they enthuse, Is…
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Demand for Kosher Cuisine Swells Ranks of Jewish Prison Chaplains
Los Angeles – Mendel Slavin went to work as a chaplain in a San Diego prison in 2006. A Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, he was one of about a dozen Jewish chaplains serving California’s fractional Jewish inmate population at the time. But in the two years since then, that…
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Whoopi Honored
WHOOPI GOLDBERG AMONG HONOREES AT ALBERT EINSTEIN LUNCHEON This is the last place I thought I would be… Thank you for shining a light on me,” said Whoopi Goldberg an honoree at the May 5 Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s 54th annual Spirit of Achievement Luncheon. Donny Deutsch, host of CNBC hit show “The Big Idea…
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Mega-Donor Throws Clout Behind Hebrew Charter School
Mega-philanthropist Michael Steinhardt is giving a big bump to the effort to create a national network of publicly funded Hebrew schools by putting his money behind an effort to open a Hebrew-language charter school in New York City. A group of individuals with financial backing from the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life is planning to…
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Does Obama Really Have a Jewish Problem?
From the avalanche of articles and commentaries published by mainstream media outlets in recent weeks, one might easily get the impression that Barack Obama is in trouble with Jewish voters. As the Illinois senator — now the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee — turns his attention to November, the national media has closely followed his overtures…
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Dovish New Lobby Pushes Community To Cut Hagee Ties
Washington — An upstart Jewish group looking to make its mark on Washington is launching a campaign to distance the Jewish community from controversial evangelical Pastor John Hagee. Following revelations that Hagee made comments perceived to be describing the Holocaust as an act of divine retribution, much of the Jewish communal establishment has stuck by…
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Amid Yet Another Political Scandal, Israelis Register a Collective Shrug
Tel Aviv — As details of the allegations against Ehud Olmert have taken shape this week, the response from the political establishment and the public has ranged from condemnation to disgust, but there has been one notably missing reaction: surprise. Olmert’s fall from grace sped up this past week with the testimony of American businessman…
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Kosher Plant Workers Find Refuge in Local Church
While a recent raid on the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse has been big news in the Jewish community, in the town where the raid took place, the most visible effect has been on the local Catholic Church, St. Bridget’s. St. Bridget’s church has long been a hub of the Hispanic community in Postville, Iowa, where…
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President of Cote d’Ivoire Reflects on Israeli Support
When his hold on power was teetering a few years ago, Cote d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo reached out to an unlikely ally: Israel. Once West Africa’s wealthiest country and the world’s leading producer of cocoa, Cote d’Ivoire plunged into a bitter civil war in late 2002 when insurgents, backed by the former colonial power, France,…
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