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POST CHRISTIE, POST PALIN
October 8, 2011It appears the Republican field is set, unless a truly dark horse suddenly announces a run. Yes, Rudy Giuliani is still undecided, and in fact polls reasonably well, but his Hamlet routine is wearing thin, and his exploits on 9/11 a distant memory. We detect no great “wanting” of Rudy. So who benefits? With Christie [...]
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Guest post: Refocusing the Conversation
June 20, 2011by Jonah Geffen, Rabbinical Student Kelly Cohen, Jewish Educator We are trapped in a discourse that has no logical end. It has been asserted that the knowledge and life experience of the current generation of Rabbinical students with regard to Israel is cause for great concern and fear. The deans and Presidents of Rabbinical schools [...]
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Link: The Value of Vignettes
December 14, 2010To read recently submitted post of mine currently at BeyondBT.com, please click here.
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A Response to the Jewish Voice for Peace Activist who Disrupted Netanyahu’s Speech and Posted Their Propaganda on Jewlicious
November 10, 2010This is a response to the post written earlier today by Rae Abileah called Jewish Values vs. Israeli Policies. In that post, Abileah, a guest and first-time poster on Jewlicious, argues that she and others from Jewish Voices for Peace who disrupted Netanyahu’s speech were right to do so and their disruptions were also justified [...]
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Tidbits
October 29, 2010What a great post, below, of the American Jewish World Service gala video. I hate to post this and take away its top position, but I shall take a few minutes away from making my Lady Syna-GaGa corned beef covered suit Halloween costume and post some tidbits from the world. Foremost is the rally in [...]
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Another mother poem: Fears
October 21, 2010Fears FEARS I can’t wrap you in gauze. The world is sharp. Someone will hurt you and I won’t be there to swoop you up. Your tender heart will be broken in ways no one can repair. Or we’ll hurt each other. You’ll yell that I don’t understand. The words “I hate you” [...]
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Live from the Jewschool contributors email list: Is Eshet Chayil a Hypocritical Prayer?
October 3, 2010Contributors, if you want to claim your thoughts in this, leave a comment and I’ll adjust accordingly. Yesterday, I emailed a post from The Forward’s Sisterhood Blog to the Jewschool contributors list. The post, by Debra Nussbaum Cohen, reads: At Shabbat dinner in traditional Jewish homes the hymn ’
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Welcome, new readers!
September 11, 2010To all who are here via the very kind mention in Nick Kristof’s Sunday New York Times column Is This America? (the online edition links to my post A gesture of repair, about raising money for new prayer rugs for the Al-Iman masjid in Queens) — welcome. Come on in, make yourselves at home. If [...]
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Another mother poem: a sweet year
September 8, 2010A SWEET YEAR No honey until you’re a year old, but I can pop the seal on a pint of last year’s applesauce. The afternoon light was thick and gold the day we cored a bushel and a peck, hands sticky and kitchen fragrant. The jars were earmarked: for latkes, for breakfast, and for you [...]
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Another mother poem (for Big Tent Poetry) – Hand-Me-Downs
August 26, 2010HAND-ME-DOWNS My knife zips through tape and the box unfolds its wings. I lift little pockets of emptiness, their sleeves carefully tucked. Each of these an embrace in jersey knit, in waffle weave or flannel, snug turtlenecks and button-downs. This red one – short-sleeved, blazoned with the alphabet — urges me to measure each day: [...]
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The Conservative Movement Wants Your Feedback
August 20, 2010We’ve written many times about the struggles of the Conservative Movement to find its place in 21st Century Jewish North America. Sometimes, they’ve even listened to us. (After I wrote this post, I got a phone call from one of the higher-ups to further discuss my criticisms and solicit my feedback.) So, I [...]
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Another mother psalm: #7
August 19, 2010MOTHER PSALM 7 A psalm of anticipation Someday you’ll know us by our cars: you’ll report that mama’s is sky-blue, that dad’s is black (and a pick-up truck – a distinction boys learn so early it must be imparted in the womb.) Maybe you’ll want to look inside, to decode the tanks and hoses, this [...]
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Jerusalem Posts Resident Israeli Arab Toady Advocates Three-State Solution
July 29, 2010Stand With Us and the inimitable Hudson Institute are currently touting this nifty piece of anti-Palestinian propaganda by the Jerusalem Post’s resident Israeli-Arab (I deliberately do not call him Palestinian) toady, Khaled Abu Toameh. It has the virtue of advocating not a one, or even two, but three-state solution: It is also a disgrace for [...]
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Post Ombudsman Thinks Dave Weigel is Stanley McChrystal
June 26, 2010The Washington Post ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, has an odd piece up about Dave Weigel’s resignation. I agree with one of Alexander’s assertions, more or less: “Weigel’s e-mails showed strikingly poor judgment and revealed a bias that only underscored existing complaints from conservatives that he couldn’t impartially cover them.” More or less because it isn’t entirely [...]