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Life Missing from Petraeus Affair’s Coverage
Something important has gone unnoticed amid the chatter about the titillating revelations of an affair between four star General David Petraeus (he of the name worthy of the leader of ancient Greece’s military forces, never mind the United States’) and his fawning biographer, Paula Broadwell. And that is the fact that there was a tremendous…
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Fast Forward Sheryl Sandberg’s $11M Facebook Windfall
Shares of Facebook Inc jumped as much as 11.2 percent on Wednesday, even as the biggest block of shares held by insiders became eligible for sale for the first time since the social media company’s disappointing debut in May. Facebook shares were up 8.5 percent at $21.54 in heavy morning trade on the Nasdaq, off…
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Food Berlin’s Jewish Comeback
This past May, a Jewish delicatessen opened in Mitte, Berlin’s central (and rather trendy) district. Founded by two disc jockeys in their 30s, Oskar Melzer (who is Jewish) and Paul Mogg (who is not), and serving up house-cured pastrami, chicken liver brulée, challah and matzo ball soup in a sleekly designed space, Mogg & Melzer…
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Fast Forward Israel Pounds Gaza In Bid To Quell Rocket Fire
Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would “open the gates of hell”. The onslaught shattered hopes that a truce mediated on Tuesday by Egypt could pull the…
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Fast Forward London Package Bomb Attempt Was Hate Crime
Metropolitan Police reportedly said the recent delivery of an explosive device to a house near London was an anti-Semitic hate crime. The explosive device was sent to a house in Clayhall near London, causing police to close the area to traffic on Monday, according to the Ilford Recorder, a local newspaper. The report did not…
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Fast Forward 50 German Lawmakers Back Circumcision Ban
A new proposal by liberal and left-leaning legislators in Germany would bar ritual circumcision for boys under the age of 14. Some 50 members of Parliament – from the Social Democratic Party, the Left Party and the Greens – have signed on to the proposal, which they hope will preempt another bill currently awaiting parliamentary…
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News Transgender Jews Seek Place at Table
Shortly before Emily Aviva Kapor began the transition from male to female, she sat down to discuss the process with her mother. “I told her I was going on hormones, and she said the most Jewish thing to me,” 27-year-old Kapor recalled. “She said, ‘Well, at least you’re not getting a tattoo.’” It’s a funny…
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Fast Forward Charlie Chaplin’s Bowler Hat Goes on Block
One of Charlie Chaplin’s iconic bowler hats and canes, the staple of Hollywood silent-era comedy, will go under the hammer in Los Angeles this weekend, auction house Bonhams said on Tuesday. Chaplin’s hat and cane – synonymous with his trademark “Little Tramp” character in films such as “City Lights” and “Modern Times” – are expected…
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