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The Schmooze Hillary Clinton Makes History, Gets Photo of Hand Published in Ultra-Orthodox Newspaper
In an unlikely turn of events, the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Ne’eman has been thrust into the spotlight as a paragon of feminism and progressive media ethics. The newspaper has, for the first time in its history, published a picture of a woman, Only Simchas reported. And not just any woman: Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But,…
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Life The Disturbing Sexist Trend in Interfaith Work
I was at the gym this morning, when an ad came on the TV with a powerful image. It was three men: a minister, an imam, and a rabbi talking to and hugging each other. I couldn’t hear what they were saying but it looked heartwarming — the kind of feel-good image you might find…
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Breaking News France To Rescue Europe’s ‘Oldest Jewish Building’
— French authorities allocated approximately half a million dollars toward the preservation of what is believed to be Europe’s oldest known Jewish building. Restoration works are to begin in October to save the damaged parts of the Sublime House, which some historians believe was the seat of a 12-century yeshiva – a Jewish religious seminary — in…
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News After Years of Security, Scottish Jews Newly on Edge Over Anti-Semitism
A third of Scottish Jews are anxious about a rise in anti-Semitism in the last two years, a new survey found. The report, by the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC), also found that 17% of respondents said they keep their Jewish identity a secret and over 10% of respondents said they were hard-pressed to…
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Life I’m a Proud Jew — But Sometimes I ‘Pass’ as Not Jewish
By most accounts, I am not a self-hating Jew. I wrote a doctoral dissertation on a Jewish-studies topic, have a blog with the word “Zionism” in the subtitle, and have published enough articles on Jewish-related topics that there’s a (charming) post dedicated to me on one of those big white-supremacist websites. There’s a poster of…
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Israel News Journeying to Hebron To Take Jewish Stand Against Israeli Occupation
As their bus rolled toward the Palestinian city of Hebron, American Jewish activists broke into “Olam Chesed Yibaneh,” a Hebrew song about building a world with lovingkindness. Later, facing arrest by Israeli police, they sang “Lo Yisa Goy,” the classic Hebrew summer camp song that warns that “Nation shall not raise a sword against a…
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News Donald Trump Praises Era When ‘My Jews’ Said Merry Christmas: Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann said Donald Trump longs for the time when “even my Jews would say merry Christmas.” The Republican former representative spoke fondly of Trump’s “churched background” and “1950s sensibilities,” in a clip from a Saturday interview published by watchdog Right Wing Watch. “He said, ‘When I was growing up, everyone said merry Christmas, even…
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News That Time a Jewess Joined the Daughters of the American Revolution
Abigail Minis was a widow, in her eighties and Jewish, but that didn’t stop her from doing her part to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. She put her skills and resources as an innkeeper to use and paid for food for soldiers fighting for American independence in 1779 in Savannah, Georgia. “Here’s a…
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