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News Britain’s Chief Rabbi Embraces Limmud, Despite Protest From Ultra-Orthodox
If Jews in America eat out at Chinese restaurants on Christmas, large numbers of British Jews avoid the holiday entirely by heading out to Limmud, the annual learning fest for Jews of all stripes that has spread worldwide since its launch at Oxford University in the 1980s. As the event’s popularity has grown by leaps…
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Life Why It’s OK To Call Miley Cyrus Stupid
Whether you read the Jewish press, the celebrity gossip blogs, or both, you are no doubt aware by now that Miley Cyrus, most recently famous for licking objects a dog would have the good sense to avoid, told Hunger TV why she wants to be in control of her image: “It can’t be like this…
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Fast Forward Greece Votes to Cut State Funding To Far-Right Golden Dawn Party
Greek lawmakers voted to cut off state funding to the far-right Golden Dawn party early on Wednesday, the latest effort by the government to clamp down on a party it has branded a “neo-Nazi criminal gang”. Golden Dawn had steadily risen on the back of an anti-austerity and anti-immigrant agenda to become Greece’s third-most popular…
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Fast Forward Rihanna Performs for 50,000 in Tel Aviv, Despite BDS Campaign
Rihanna sang before a crowd of 50,000 in Tel Aviv at Israel’s largest performance venue, Yarkon Park. Fans paid $100 and up for Tuesday’s show, part of the pop star’s “Diamonds” world tour and her second performance in Israel. She played Israel three years ago. Rihanna came to Israel despite a campaign by the Boycott,…
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Fast Forward Pace of Peace Talks Has "Intensified,’ Says Secretary of State John Kerry
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said “all the core issues are on the table” in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians that have intensified. A meeting Monday in Jerusalem centered on the issue of sharing water resources, an unnamed Palestinian official told the French news agency AFP. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have met…
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Fast Forward The Onion Slams Washington Redskins Owner With Anti-Semitic Slurs
(JTA) — Last week, the Anti-Defamation League joined a number of groups and politicians urging the Washington Redskins to change their team’s name, already. Here’s another Jewish wrinkle: The Onion posted an article on Monday that uses two anti-Jewish slurs (one twice) and two adjectival stereotypes to describe Redskins owner Dan Snyder and skewer his…
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The Schmooze The Best Jewish Halloween Idea Ever
Do you love Halloween? Well, according to Buzzfeed, Jewish rapper Drake does too. So this year, why not combine the two? Presenting the “Drake O’Lantern”: made a ‘nothing was the same’ jack-o-lantern (cc: @drake) pic.twitter.com/vTI0Z8nYJR ampmdash; willis plummer (@willisplummer) October 14, 2013 Genius.
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The Schmooze Introducing a Failed Sitcom by Sarah Silverman
If you have a spare 24 minutes at some point today, you can fill them by watching a newly released failed NBC pilot, courtesy of Sarah Silverman. “Susan 313,” which stars Silverman along with Jeff Goldblum, Tig Notaro, June Diane Raphael (“Burning Love”) and “Parks and Recreation” writer Harris Wittels, never made on the air….
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