Sometimes you need a large amount of bile in a short period of time — for, say, a home improvement project, or a reenactment of medieval medical practices Let’s make our own! We’ll start by reading this news: Roman Polanski, who in 1977 pled guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl — he had, he later…
Updated 1:20 p.m. A Jewish Democratic challenger for a key Michigan congressional district received a major boost when a Republican-aligned super PAC reportedly abandoned her GOP opponent to focus on more winnable contests. Elissa Slotkin is now a favorite to oust Rep. Mike Bishop in Michigan’s 8th district after the Congressional Leadership Fund announced it…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in a bathroom at a local high school near Indianapolis. Swastikas were discovered drawn on mirrors and a counter in a boy’s bathroom at Pike High School on Thursday, the Indianapolis Star reported. A similar incident occurred the next day in a restroom. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and…
As defined by Merriam-Webster’s, “transliteration” means “to represent or spell in the characters of another alphabet.” And, one unexpected aspect of writing about language is learning how many people around the world turn out to be passionately concerned with transliteration. For example, I have received numerous missives on the spelling of mamaloshn, or “mother tongue”…
On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at the Jewel-Osco supermarket in Chicago, Jenni Spinner, a freelance writer and editor, found a 1955 Bar Mitzvah album on top of a stack of Lagunitas IPA 12 packs in the liquor department. What such an interesting personal item was doing there we still don’t know, but thanks to some…
Brett Kavanaugh’s defenders have offered four main arguments for confirming him despite the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford and two other women who have accused him of sexual misdeeds. 1. Forgive the Indiscretions of Youth The first is that even if the allegations are true, Kavanaugh’s life shouldn’t be ruined because of things he did…
(JTA) – Israeli actress Gal Gadot will star in 20th Century Fox’s “Death on the Nile.” The adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel featuring detective Hercules Poirot will be directed by Kenneth Branagh, Deadline first reported. Fox already has set a December 20, 2019, release date for the film based on the 1937 novel. Gadot…
(JTA) — Two unidentified men in Berlin hit a Dutch national and then kicked him after asking him if he was Jewish, a German newspaper reported. The incident happened Saturday morning in the Spandauer Vorstadt area in Berlin, Der Tagesspiegel reported. The 31-year-old alleged victim, who is not Jewish and living in Berlin, asked the…
Who runs the world? Women. But you knew that already. What you probably didn’t know is that Fortune recently released their 2018 list of the most powerful women in the country, and four women in the business magazine’s top ten ranking are Jews. These superhumans were selected by Fortune with four qualifications in mind, according…
(Reuters) – When a Democrat with Palestinian-Mexican ancestry who had never before run for office was elected to challenge a Republican incumbent in a staunchly conservative southern California congressional district, few gave him much of a chance. But five-term U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, who has been criminally charged with misusing campaign funds, is concerned enough…
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