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How Many Russians Jews Are in U.S.? – Forward
November 25, 2011Forward How Many Russians Jews Are in U.S.?ForwardDemographers are split on exactly how many of the newcomers should be classified as Jews. By Paul Berger They make up about 10% of the American Jewish community, but no one is entirely sure how many Russian-speaking Jews there are in the United States. …and more » jewish – [...]
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Sheikh Qaradawi Seeks Total War
February 24, 2011Mark Gardner and Dave Rich did yeoman’s work not long ago, analyzing the Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi’s 2003 book, Fatawa Min Ajl Falastin, or Fatwas on Palestine, and came to the conclusion that this putatively moderate Islamic cleric argues clearly and consistently that hatred of Israel and Jews is Islamically sanctioned, and that the [...]
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Jews are All Over the Oscars
February 9, 2011Yes, Israel may have been shut out from the nominations this year, but the Jews did not fare as poorly, to say the least. Last year’s Oscars were pretty Jewlicious, and Jews were even mentioned in the opening monologue: Here are some of this year’s Jewish Oscar contenders. Well, the major ones anyway: Natalie Portman [...]
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Sweet Home, Alabama, Unless Youre Not Christian
January 20, 2011And now, a word about brotherhood from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley:There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit. But if you have been adopted in God’s family like I have, and like you have if you’re a Christian and if you’re saved, and the Holy Spirit [...]
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Glenn Beck: The Jews Killed Jesus
January 19, 2011I missed this one, but Harry’s Place didn’t:On his Fox News TV show, Glenn Beck became the latest in a long line of distinguished Christians over the past two thousand years or so to tell us that “the Jews” killed Jesus: This is kind of complex, because Jesus did identify with the victims. But Jesus [...]
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Debbie Friedman and the Tragedy of the Closet
January 11, 2011When I heard that Debbie Friedman had passed away, I was sitting in a conference room at the San Francisco Federation, participating in a board meeting for Keshet, a nonprofit organization working for the full inclusion of GLBT Jews in Jewish Life. I learned of Debbie’
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The 100 Sexiest Jews on Twitter: Thanks #JTA100
January 3, 2011By day they are Jewish community professionals, bloggers, social media consultants and community activists, but by night they unleash their pent up sensual energy and become the sexiest Jews known to mankind. They are this years 100 Sexiest Jews on Twitter. With fingers and minds well honed from crafting clever 140 character missives, these Jews [...]
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Jews in former Soviet Union struggle to survive
December 29, 2010 -
Was the Whitehouse Prepared to Give Soviet Jewry the KISS-inger of Death?
December 28, 2010Henry Kissinger recently apologized for comments made to former-president Richard Nixon in 1973, saying it wouldn’t be an American concern if the Soviet Union sent its Jews to the gas chambers. Kissinger also forgives Nixon for anti-Semitic comments made, about him, behind his own back. The recent apology, to Jews (I guess), appeared in an [...]
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Dutch rabbi rejects call for Jews to leave
December 13, 2010 -
Yishai vs. HaRachmana
December 5, 2010For the purpose of this blog post we will pretend that bending over backwards to undo and defend Israel’s blemished national image, is not a waste of energy ‘
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Me and Andrew, Down by the Schoolyard
December 2, 2010Andrew writes something here about our tumultuous relationship that is very true: We’re colleagues and friends but we fight hard intellectually. This can be a rough game at times, and sometimes an elbow can need stitches in one’s lip. But I do think I can say one thing we agree on very very clearly that [...]
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Pro-Palestinian Jewish Activists Have to Tackle The Dividing Line Between “Pro-Israel” and “Anti-Israel”
November 25, 2010William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) – “Jews’ Place of Wailing.” One of the key weapons used by Jews who advocate for the Palestinians, almost always by advocating against Israel, is that they blur the line of what constitutes “Pro-Israeli.” The argument usually goes something like this: “Of course we are pro-Israeli, we are seeking to find [...]
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Jews dismayed over pope comments
November 22, 2010 -
Righteous among the Arabs
November 14, 2010