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  Mango Shirt Slammed as Attempt at ‘Nazi Chic’

  Mango’s new shirt After Sears’s swastika ring and Zara’s concentration camp shirt comes another piece of fashion that has incensed the internet: The lightning-like black symbols on the women’s shirt ‘Rayo’ by Spanish fashion company Mango look suspiciously like the runic insignia of the Nazi SS units and the youth organization Jungvolk. “Why does Mango…

  By Anna Goldenberg

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  PHOTOS: How To Turn a Gaza War Into Art

  As donors pledge billions to rebuild Gaza in the wake of Hamas’s war with Israel, one Gazan is engaged in another type of construction: turning remnants of the war into works of art. Hossam al-Dabbus, a 33-year-old who works in Gaza’s honey industry, has collected shells, rockets and missiles from the war that killed around…

  By Naomi Zeveloff Oct 16, 2014 | 2 min read
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  It’s Time To Put Women in Charge of the Mikveh

  Illustration by Lily Padula A respected rabbi installing cameras in the preparation room of the mikveh in the building next door to his synagogue? The sensationalistic story of alleged voyeur Rabbi Barry Freundel seems tailor-made to go viral in our internet age. So what can be done to counteract the negative publicity this gives to…

  By Beth Kissileff Oct 15, 2014 | 3 min read

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  Why Barry Freundel Story Makes Me Physically Ill

  Illustration by Kurt Hoffman Yesterday, prominent Modern Orthodox Rabbi Barry Freundel was arrested on charges of voyeurism. The police report obtained by the media indicates that he had used cameras to record women showering as they prepared to use the mikveh. Freundel should, and will, have his say in court. These charges are serious, though,…

  By Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Oct 15, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Sears Helps Woo Your Date With a Swastika Ring

  Screenshot of Sears website It was one thing when Spanish clothing giant Zara tried to explain away its children’s Holocaust shirt as an honest mistake, or when Walmart was selling a concentration camp poster as home decor. But now Sears finds itself in hot water over the very worst of these products. The storied department…

  By Maia Efrem Oct 14, 2014 | 2 min read
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  Why Britain’s ‘Palestine’ Vote Should Scare Israel

  Demonstrators call on the British parliament to recognize ‘Palestine’ The British Parliament’s decision to back a motion to “recognize the state of Palestine,” by a margin of 274 to 12 votes, means nothing — and everything. Nothing, because the passage of this motion was a purely symbolic matter, close to but not really a true indication…

  By Liam Hoare Oct 14, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Jon Stewart on Sukkus

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  By Abigail Pogrebin Oct 14, 2014 | < 1 min read
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  Serious Sukkah-Envy: My Sukkot Report

  “Sukkot is about shtupping.” “Shtupping” (Yiddish for sex) is not what most associate with the harvest holiday. I thought Sukkot (literally “booths”) — meant decorating tents that evoke the shelters built by the newly-freed Israelites as they wandered in the desert. But then I hadn’t really focused on the erectness of the lulav (the green…

  By Abigail Pogrebin Oct 14, 2014 | 6 min read
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  Confronting Campus Scourge of Anti-Israel Venom

  In early October, a number of prominent Jewish studies professors signed a letter stating their opposition to the AMCHA Initiative, a group with the mission of monitoring anti-Semitism at institutions of higher education in America. A study just released by AMCHA indicates, among other findings, that the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University…

  By Judea Pearl Oct 14, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Why Columbus Day Should Be A Jewish Holiday

  John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” asked a really simple yet poignant question: How is Columbus Day still a thing? At this point, the American education system has modified textbooks to indicate that no, in fact, Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America. In fact, as Slate points out, the Italian explorer who set sail to bring wealth…

  By Rachel Delia Benaim Oct 13, 2014 | 2 min read
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  Want To Engage Young Jews? Look to Open Hillel

  Rebecca Vilkomerson speaking at the Open Hillel conference / Gili Getz “I bought my ticket right after my rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah sermon. I knew I needed this community,” a student participant at the Open Hillel conference told me today. The student went on to thank Open Hillel for providing a long overdue space for young…

  By Naomi Dann Oct 13, 2014 | 3 min read