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The Schmooze Anthony Weiner Aide Slams Former Intern
Shocker: Things are not going well for Anthony Weiner. A week after the mayoral hopeful’s campaign started to implode when it was revealed that he had in fact continued his Internet sexcapades after his resignation from Congress, Weiner’s reputation continues to tank. The latest debacle involves remarks made by a Weiner spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, regarding…
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Fast Forward Chabad ‘Synagogue-on-Wheels’ Heads to Siberia
Chabad activists have taken three synagogues on wheels on a journey into Siberia and central Russia. The activists, among them sons of emissaries to Russia for the Chabad movement, are driving three camper vehicles into the Russian outback along three different routes that will take them through dozens of cities over the next three weeks,…
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Fast Forward Maccabiah Games Close With Splash
The 19th Maccabiah Games came to a close in Jerusalem. The games closing ceremony, featuring some of Israel’s most popular and well known pop music groups, such as Balkan Beat Box and Infected Mushroom, took place Tuesday evening at Teddy Stadium. Speakers urged the athletes gathered at the stadium to watch the closing ceremonies to…
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Fast Forward ‘Pink Panther’ Heist of Jewish Diamond King Lev Leviev in Cannes Soars to $136M
The theft of diamonds and jewels owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev could be the largest jewelry heist in years after the worth of the stolen jewels was estimated at $136 million. A masked gunman stole the diamonds and jewels from an exhibition at a luxury resort in Cannes on Sunday afternoon. The thief threatened…
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News Subway Icon Dr. Jonathan Zizmor Calls Accused Y.U. Abuse Rabbi ‘Best Teacher’
To millions of New Yorkers, Jonathan Zizmor is the don of dermatology. But to some victims of sex abuse, Zizmor is the donor who established a scholarship in their alleged molester’s name. Zizmor, who is renowned across New York City’s five boroughs for his campy subway advertisements promoting cosmetic procedures, gave $250,000 to Yeshiva University…
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Opinion The American Jewish Way of Death
In August 1963, “The American Way of Death” by Jessica Mitford sold out its first printing on its publication date and topped The New York Times best-seller list for weeks. Inspired by her husband, Robert Treuhaft, a radical Jewish labor lawyer who was an unnamed co-author of the book, Mitford brought a sparkling British wit…
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Opinion Pamela Geller’s Intolerance Crosses Red Line on Bimah
The recent decisions by a synagogue in Great Neck and another outside of Toronto to cancel appearances by anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller — both were rescheduled at other venues — have made headlines in the Jewish press and raised interesting questions for the Jewish community. There are important issues at stake here. They are not…
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Opinion Don’t Ban Pamela Geller — It’s Not Jewish Way
The tradition of English liberty which runs through the political culture is a deep one, traceable back to John Milton’s Areopagitica, published in 1644, through Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. The nub of it was best put by Mill when he wrote, “If all mankind minus one, were…
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