On my blog and here in the Forward, I’ve dissected every single issue of Russian-Jewish life in America, from Russian Dolls, to raising Russian kids. But there’s only so much introspection you can do before you reach a meta-loop and break the universe. That’s the point I reached last December. I was tired of writing…
Of all the ways in which people express their contempt for Israel, this is a new one: putting pubic hair on an Israeli flag. A student at St. Andrews University in Scotland has been expelled for doing just that, during a drunken incident in the room of a Jewish student. Paul Donnachie, a 19-year-old student…
You know things are serious when Kiddush clubs are willing to give up their scotch. The Federation of Amazing and Jewish Men’s Clubs, an affiliate of the Conservative movement, has called upon its North American members (250 clubs; 25,000 individual members) to boycott scotch whisky made in distilleries located in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland. Among…
Scotland’s Daily Record reports: HOLLYWOOD A-lister Goldie Hawn will walk into a storm of protest when she visits Scotland this weekend. Campaigners are outraged she has agreed to attend Sunday’s fundraising banquet for the Jewish National Fund at Glasgow’s Hilton Hotel. John Wight, spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: “She will get a very…
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