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  Let ‘Em Eat Nothing

  “Eat Mexicans.” That’s Stephen Colbert’s advice to people who will be tossed aside when Congress finally gets around to overhauling the food stamp program. The solution proposed by the House Republican leadership is only slightly less macabre than Colbert’s — and, unfortunately, it is serious, as we may assume Colbert’s advice is not. The plan?…

  By Leonard Fein

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  Why Iranian Leader Hassan Rowhani May Not Be Ahmadinejad II

  While the rest of the world cautiously welcomed the surprise election of Hassan Rowhani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood virtually alone in swiftly dismissing the Iranian centrist as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. And when Iranian news agencies misquoted Rowhani as calling Israel an “old wound” that must be removed, Netanyahu was quick to…

  By Trita Parsi Aug 9, 2013 | 4 min read
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  J Street’s Breakthrough With Likud and Shas

  J Street, the dovish pro-Israel lobby that was shunned in its early years by Israeli government officials, is now making another step toward the acceptance by Israeli politicians. This coming September, J Street will host, for the first time, a member of Knesset from the ruling Likud Party and a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas…

  By Nathan Guttman Aug 9, 2013 | 2 min read

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  When Canada Kept Jews in Internment Camps

  Ringed with barbed wire and isolated from surrounding communities, the notorious internment camp held more than 700 Jews in the early days of World War II. But this wasn’t Germany or Poland. Internment Camp B70 was located in a bucolic corner of the Canadian province of New Brunswick — and only now are locals, and…

  By Michael Kaminer Aug 8, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Will the Next Generation Give?

  The names are recognizable everywhere: Adelson, Steinhardt, Shusterman. Bronfman, Perelman, Kimmel and Tisch. Soros, Bloomberg, Broad, Jacobs, Blavatnik and more. They represent American Jewry’s golden givers, its most wealthy and generous philanthropists. Some of these people direct but a fraction of their giving to explicitly Jewish causes, but they help create, shape, sustain and direct…

  Aug 8, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Many Little Qaedas: How War on Terror Backfired

  Boy, President Obama is really taking it on the chin over the latest Al Qaeda threat and the closing of those 19 embassies. On the right, he’s getting hammered by the likes of The Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens, the Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen, Long Island Republican Rep. Peter King and even the distinguished Bard…

  By J.J. Goldberg Aug 8, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Jennifer Rubin, Meet Jeff Bezos

  Now that Jeff Bezos has purchased the Washington Post, the newspaper’s star blogger has been promoted to even greater influence as a Featured Amazon Reviewer.

  By Eli Valley Aug 7, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  News Quiz: Hasidic Alt-Rockers and Real Housewives

  Kafka, Golda and one of the New York Knicks — that’s just not a threesome you’d expect anywhere but here, in your news quiz. We’ve also thrown in some “Real Housewives” gossip and a Hasidic girl group. Time to dive in!

  By Lenore Skenazy Aug 7, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Stigmatizing the Unmarried

  In the insular Jewish world there is constant buzz around the so-called shidduch (marriage) crisis, where Orthodox are single despite wanting to find a mate. This marriage worldview manifested itself in a recent letter, published on the Jewish news site Shmais, in which an anonymous “older single girl” describes her shame and depression for being…

  By Eliyahu Federman Aug 7, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  A Proud Newspaper Legacy

  The inappropriate question tweeted late last year by media mogul Rupert Murdoch raised the touchy subject once again. “Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?” were his exact words. The context was the escalating Israeli bombardment of Gaza after a long series of rocket attacks by Hamas, and Murdoch’s scarcely-disguised critique…

  Aug 7, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Nechemya Weberman and His Devoted Wife

  When Nechemya Weberman was found guilty and was sentenced to 103 years in prison for repeatedly raping a girl who he was supposed to be counseling, most thought the grisly tale was over. This was a record sentence for a Hasidic man convicted in a Brooklyn courtroom. The counselor had fallen, and his cloistered Satmar…

  By Allison Yarrow Aug 6, 2013 | 4 min read