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  American (Hasidic) Apparel

  We’re used to seeing adolescent-looking girls posing like wannabe porn stars in American Apparel ads. That probably makes Yoel Weisshaus the most unorthodox American Apparel model ever. His dark blond peyos long and bouncy, the Hasidic 32-year-old college student poses in what is surely the company’s most modest ad ever, wearing a white button down…

  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

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  Proud Jews Are Also Committed to Inclusiveness

  Last June, Jane Eisner participated in a private roundtable discussion at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem about Israel’s Jewish identity. What came out of the talks was the sense that Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora face a similar challenge — how to be a modern people in a modern world while holding…

  By Abraham H. Foxman Sep 8, 2013 | 3 min read
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  For Israeli Military, Armor’s Out, Cyber Is In

  Officers in the U.S. Army have long envied the “short drive” they claim the Israel Defense Forces has to reach its front lines, bemoaning the tyranny of distance when deploying to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Having relatively short distances to go when meeting a threat means that the IDF is able to go in…

  By Paul McLeary Sep 8, 2013 | 4 min read

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  Michael Bloomberg, Leave Dante de Blasio Alone

  After 12 years and three terms as mayor, Michael Bloomberg somehow still can’t figure out how the average New Yorker thinks. The out-of-touch billionaire who bought a trifecta free pass to Gracie Mansion is leaving office this year. But he couldn’t resist the urge to make an idiot of himself on the way out the…

  By Dave Goldiner Sep 7, 2013 | 2 min read
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  The ‘Unsavory’ Among Us

  My neighborhood association is disturbed by a recent and ongoing surge in the number of “unsavory” people who use the neighborhood’s plentiful benches for sleeping. It proposes installing bench railings every three feet, which would render stretching out for sleep impossible. In 1968, the federally established minimum wage was $1.60 an hour. That works out…

  By Leonard Fein Sep 7, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Israel Should Allow Freedom of Jewish Faith to All

  Last June, Jane Eisner participated in a private roundtable discussion at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem about Israel’s Jewish identity. What came out of the talks was the sense that Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora face a similar challenge — how to be a modern people in a modern world while holding…

  By Tamar Elad-Appelbaum Sep 7, 2013 | 3 min read
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  In Israel, Religion Is Reduced To Simplistic Categories

  Last June, Jane Eisner participated in a private roundtable discussion at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem about Israel’s Jewish identity. What came out of the talks was the sense that Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora face a similar challenge — how to be a modern people in a modern world while holding…

  By Elie Kaunfer Sep 6, 2013 | 3 min read
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  The Presidential Blessing

  Taking a moment off from the intense debate over Syria, President Barack Obama published a blessing for the High Holidays. Obama noted that 50 years ago, Rabbi Joachim Prinz stood with Dr. King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and told the marchers the when god created man, he created him as everybody’s neighbor….

  By Yermi Brenner Sep 5, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Drifting Towards a Tribal Jewishness

  Last June, Jane Eisner participated in a private roundtable discussion at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem about Israel’s Jewish identity. What came out of the talks was the sense that Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora face a similar challenge — how to be a modern people in a modern world while holding…

  By Dov Maimon Sep 5, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Anthony Weiner’s Meltdown Over Huma

  Anthony Weiner blew his stack at a Jewish voter in Brooklyn who insulted his wife, calling the man a “jackass” through a mouthful of cheese danish. In a video posted online by Yeshiva World News political correspondent Jacob Kornbluh, Weiner can be seen engaging in a shouting match with an unidentified man in a yarmulke…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis Sep 4, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  A Prayer for Syria

  Suddenly everyone is talking about Syria. Two years of mayhem and murder, confusion and hesitation. 100,000 Syrians killed, a quarter of the population turned refugees, and now hundreds have been gassed to death, a sight which no Jew – no human – can ignore; a sight which once seen, cannot go unanswered. As we enter…

  By Mishael Zion Sep 4, 2013 | 4 min read