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The Schmooze James Bond, The Mensch?
“What is that?” “They’re guns, James.” “I know but so many? I mean I’m one guy. How many guns does a person need?” The opening of Funny or Die’s new video says it all: 007 goes mensch. The comedy site’s new video offers a solution to a recent comment by Harvey Weistein deploring the amount…
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Opinion Family Amulet Captures Jewish Life in India
When my grandmother was pregnant with my dad, she got a terrible — and somewhat mysterious — mouth infection. It kept her from eating and talking. It was so painful that it landed her flat on her back; for days, all she could do was lie in bed. Then her bedroom door creaked open to…
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News Happiest American Is Still Hawaiian, Jewish and Chill
Three years ago, Alvin Wong received a call from The New York Times. After asking him a few questions about his demographic background, the excited reporter on the line gave Wong a piece of news that would upend his life: He was the happiest man in America. His first response was utter disbelief. “Who would…
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News Rabbi Tries To Squelch ‘Register Jews’ Story — But It Won’t Die
(Reuters) — A Ukrainian rabbi whose congregation was the target of an anti-Semitic leaflet that drew global media interest and condemnation from the U.S. government believes it was a hoax and wants to put the matter to rest. But five days after the incident in the restive eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine’s prime minister, anxious…
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Life Not Another ‘Jewish Hotties’ Slideshow
Thinkstock Oh Daily Caller, no you didn’t just publish a slideshow of Jewish hotties under the tenuously time-pegged slogan “13 Jewish Hotties We Wouldn’t Pass Over.” Just no. In addition to being outright objectifying without even a trace of hipster irony, there’s something a little unpleasant about the project, as if the fact that Jewish…
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Fast Forward Jewish Nonprofits Start To Embrace Maternity Leave
(JTA) — The United States is the only industrialized country in the world not to mandate paid maternity leave, and only 11 percent of private-sector American employees have access to it. But a growing list of Jewish nonprofits are now offering or expanding paid maternity leave, the result of a push by Advancing Women Professionals,…
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News Seeking Jewish Future in Small Latin American Towns
(JTA) — The youthful group of 60 drew their chairs around tables strewn with jars of markers and the occasional Rubik’s Cube, nearby chalkboards at the ready for jotting down big ideas. The conference hall was suffused with a can-do vibe that wouldn’t have seemed out of place in Silicon Valley. But high-tech was not…
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Life Why HBO’s ‘Doll and Em’ Deserves To Be Renewed
A recognizable portrayal of mid-30s to early 40-something women on TV is a rare thing. When we do see women of this age they tend to have incredibly intense jobs like “Scandal’s” Olivia Pope or “Homeland’s” Carrie Mathison or they are, well, a character on “Sex and the City.” This is what makes the new…
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