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Don’t Lecture, Listen to Europe’s Jews
First Paris, now Copenhagen. This annus horribilis for European Jews has become even more frightening, as the names of capital cities are now synonymous with anti-Semitic attacks creeping across the continent. We hesitate to ask, but — will the list grow? Israeli officials, aggressively led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have a ready answer to…
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Opinion What’s So Wrong About Cameron Diaz’s Jewish Wedding?
When word got out in January about non-Jewish actress Cameron Diaz and non-Jewish musician Benji Madden’s Jewish-inspired wedding, some of us found it cause for celebration; others saw it as an insult. The pair wed under a chuppah, had an officiant recite the seven blessings, smashed the glass and took a yichud. US Weekly reports…
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Opinion 7 Axioms of the Copenhagen Terror Attacks
The news of the attacks on the Copenhagen cafe and synagogue did not surprise us. We may keep hoping this will stop, but the rational parts of our brains know that it will not, at least not for the long term. There have been enough of these attacks that we can now see there are…
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Opinion My Night at Jerusalem’s First Public Drag Show
Courtesy of Jerusalem Gay Student Association, photo by Leshem Brosh “Did you see the drag show?” I asked a friend at last night’s Winter Noise Festival. “Yeah,” he responded, “did you see the racist a**holes?” Last night, in the hippest corner of Jerusalem’s city center, young Jerusalemites made history. They held the city’s first-ever public…
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Opinion Copenhagen Terror Stole My Friend Dan Uzan
Copenhagen’s slain synagogue guard, Dan Uzan / Facebook As I struggle to wrap my mind around the horrible attacks that terrorized my city, Copenhagen, this weekend, all I can see is a memory from a few years ago. I was attending Tuesday night practice at the local Jewish soccer club, Hakoah Copenhagen. Thinking myself rather…
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Opinion It’s Tough To Walk Around Paris as a Jew — Or Is It?
An Israeli journalist who walked around Paris for hours while wearing a kippah to test attitudes to Jews documented multiple threats and insults hurled at his direction. Zvika Klein, a reporter for the news site nrg.co.il and the Makor Rishon daily, on Sunday released the footage from his excursion last week around Paris and its…
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Opinion Start Birthright With Younger Teens
Taglit-Birthright Israel is a truly remarkable invention of contemporary Jewry. The offer of a cost-free 10-day trip to Israel — conceived of as the “birthright” of every Jewish young person — has brought hundreds of thousands of college-aged Jews to Israel. Research by Len Saxe and his colleagues at Brandeis University’s Cohen Center for Modern…
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Opinion Stop LOL-ing at My ‘Crazy Jewish Mom’
Photo from “Crazy Jewish Mom” on Instagram I have a Jewish mom. You have a Jewish mom. Heck, I am a Jewish mom. And I might be crazy. But it’s not because I’m Jewish. Last November, Kate Siegel decided to create an Instagram account called “Crazy Jewish Mom” in order to share private iMessages from…
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Opinion What Will Prevent Another Copenhagen?
Je Suis Copenhagen meme via Twitter The worst part of this weekend’s horrifying terrorist attack in Copenhagen is, of course, that it happened at all, and resulted in the deaths of a young man guarding a synagogue and a film director attending a free-speech event. The second-worst part is that there is no reason it…
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Opinion Canada’s ‘Fox News North’ Shuts Amid Losses
With its audience shrinking and losses mounting, a Canadian TV news network known for its pro-Israel views – and right-of-center politics – has pulled the plug after four years. Sun News Network, whose firebrand stances on hot-button issues earned it the sobriquet “Fox News North,” went dark this morning. The channel liked to claim it…
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Opinion Why Raif Badawi Matters to the Jews
On January 9, Raif Badawi, a young Saudi man who is a self-declared “liberal,” was brought in front of a mosque in Jeddah and lashed 50 times with a cane. This is only the first part of the excruciating sentence he received: 1,000 lashes altogether and 10 years in prison. His crime? Using the Internet…
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