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Women’s Roundtable: Thoroughly Modern ‘Balebustes’; Welcoming a More Inclusive Prayerbook
In the latest episode of the Women’s Roundtable Podcast, host Gabrielle Birkner speaks with Forward Editor Jane Eisner, Lilith magazine Editor Susan Weidman Schneider, and Lilith Associate Editor Sonia Isard about whether modern Jewish women should be embracing or eschewing the moniker “balebuste,” Yiddish for homemaker, and the domestic work that it implies. The panel…
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Yes, The Tea Tastes Christian
A survey out today confirms the sense many observers of the Tea Party movement have had regarding members’ religious leanings. The American Values Survey, conducted biennially by the Public Religion Research Institute, found that 47% of those who identify themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement also describe themselves as being part of the…
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For N.J. Jewish Paper, First Same-Sex Announcement Will Be Its Last
A Jewish newspaper in New Jersey said its first same-sex engagement announcement will be its last one. The decision by the Jewish Standard announced in a statement Monday on its website came a week after the newspaper published its first same-sex announcement. The newspaper did not expect the large volume of comments it received both…
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Bagels and Ballots — Tuesday
The Other [Uncovered] March: Think only Glenn Beck can lure tens of thousands to the National Mall for a march? Well, think again — because over the weekend, an estimated 200,000 liberals attended the “One Nation Working Together March,” organized by unions, civil rights groups and other left-inclined groups. (The Week) Joining the Caucus: While…
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The Last Shtetl Jews of Belarus
The interviews we see in Holocaust documentaries are but fragments of lives. Subjects talk about their horrendous concentration camp experiences, and the story ends. But suffering has continued in Belarus for many of the elderly, who are among the poorest Jews in the world. Unlike survivors who moved to relatively comfortable circumstances in Israel or…
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Christine O’Donnell and Norman Mailer: A Masturbation Double Standard?
A previously little known, earnest Christian woman running for a high-profile office her first time out confronts derision, scorn and outrage in 2010 thanks to dredged up 14-year-old comments in which she criticized masturbation for its purported role in stoking lust and discouraging intimacy. She’s pummeled, eviscerated, all but left for politically dead. That’s Republican…
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Bagels and Ballots – Monday
Glass Half Full: With the election 29 days away, Democrats are gaining hope as polls make them out to be more competitive than they seemed over the summer. Or at least talking heads are saying so: As Axelrod said last week in Google/Politico’s election preview, “You’re going to see Democrats winning in places that you…
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Bagels and Ballots – Friday
Extremely Extreme: Florida’s 8th congressional district is home to one of the country’s more distinctive contests, as we’ve reported here: liberal Jewish Democrat Alan Grayson vying against conservative Christian Republican Daniel Webster. To Webster’s already solid conservative Christian bona fides — he works to restrict abortion, fought for the state to force-feed Terry Schiavo and…
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The Exodus
Rahm Emanuel is leaving, David Axelrod might be on his way out, Larry Summers will be gone by the fall, and Peter Orszag has already moved on. Are there any Jews left in the White House? The latest wave of departures of senior White House advisers seems to have taken its toll on the Jewish…
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Cantors or Rock Stars?
’‘100 Voices: A Journey Home’ — Cantors Treated Like Rock Stars During Visit to Poland Had anyone in pre- or postwar Poland predicted that one day, 72 cantors — men and women — would be joined by a Polish children’s choir and the 100-strong Wielki National Opera Orchestra and Chorus to perform “Hatikvah” and “Ani…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: J Street in Hot Water; Eli Valley’s Comics
Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with staff writer Nathan Guttman about the implications of J Street’s admission that it has received money from George Soros. Then the Forward’s comic artist, Eli Valley, joins the conversation, discussing his creative process and his latest satirical column, in which the oversized head of reporter Helen Thomas inspires young Jews…
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