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News Does Golden Dawn’s Gains in EU Election Signal Failure of Greece’s Crackdown?
(JTA) — The picture of Golden Dawn leaders being led away in shackles by masked policemen last September was supposed to be a defining image: Greek authorities cracking down on the country’s neo-Nazi party as a harbinger of its demise. Instead, soon there will be a new iconic image: three members of the party taking their…
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Life On Jewish Women and Facial Hair
Thinkstock The first time I thought about facial hair was in high school, when a boy, whom I considered a friend, informed me that I had more hair on my upper lip than he did. I didn’t do anything about it then — it had been enough of a fight with my mother to let…
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Life Fashion For a Cause in Tel Aviv
Courtesy of Reuth // A model at the Tel Aviv show (JTA) — Israel is known for many things — startups, falafel, an often intractable territorial conflict — but fashion has never been one of them. A T-shirt, jeans and sandals is considered proper attire both at the workplace and at weddings. Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Opinion Arab Israelis Increasingly Recognize Jewish State
Israeli Jewish youths fix a menorah in Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter / Getty Images There’s a received wisdom that in Israel, everyone is polarizing, and that with a right-wing government and stalled peace process, Arab citizens are feeling increasingly antagonistic towards the state. But a new survey suggests that this isn’t the case. There has been…
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The Schmooze Seth Rogen: ‘Schlubby Jews Aren’t The Problem’
Beware of schlubby Jews with beards. That’s basically what Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday wrote in an piece that called out frat-boy comedies such as the ones produced by Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow for enabling people like Elliot Rodgers, who killed six people near the University of California’s Santa Barbara campus on May 23….
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Life Why Santa Barbara Rampage Is Terror Against Women
University of California students at a vigil for the shooting victims. Getty Images I spent the holiday weekend at my alma mater in Vermont at a writer’s retreat. On our last night in town we were reminded to walk home in numbers, especially if we were women. Independent in my comings and goings, you’d think…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Jews Celebrate Petro Poroshenko Win — and Far Right Defeat
Jewish leaders in Ukraine expressed satisfaction with the poor showing of ultranationalist candidates in the country’s presidential elections and the victory by oligarch Viktor Poroshenko. Poroshenko, from Odessa, won 54.4 percent of Sunday’s vote, eliminating the need for a second round, the Ukrainian Central Elections Commission announced Tuesday after counting 94 percent of the votes…
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Fast Forward Israel-Bound Jewish Families Rescued From Strife-Torn Donetsk Airport
Israel’s Jewish Agency came to the rescue of two Jewish Ukranian families after rebels seized control of Donetsk airport as they were waiting to emigrate to Israel, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday. The two families, numbering six people, were stranded at the airport when it was shut down on Monday. The agency then launched…
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