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Rahms Dharma Drama
January 29, 2011The ongoing saga of Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral aspirations have seen a lot of back and forth. First, Rahm’s residency during his work in the White House was challenged in the Cook County Electoral Commission. He got by that. This last week, an Appellete Court ruled Emanuel ineligible on those same residency issues. Immediately following, his [...]
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Off to Texas again
November 15, 2010Drew and me in a field of wildflowers; San Antonio, April 2010. This morning Drew and I are off on the second plane trip of his life — once again, to San Antonio, my birthplace, where we’ll spend a week visiting my family. I’m looking forward to reintroducing him to his uncles, taking him to [...]
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Well take off our shtreimls if you put on more clothes
November 9, 2010Most of the world is perfectly fine with Pamela Anderson taking off her clothes. I admit I am. So are most of the Israeli men oggling her figure while the blond bombshell visits Israel this week as a judge on the Israeli version of ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ One might assume correctly that Israeli [...]
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Kol hakavod to the New Jersey Jewish Standard for doing the right thing
October 6, 2010Crossposted to New Voices. Yesterday, I posted my letter to the editor of the New Jersey Jewish Standard, chastising them for what I believe I said was pusillanimous journalism. If you haven’t been following this, they printed an announcement of a gay wedding last week. This week, under pressure from a cabal of Orthodox rabbis, they apologized [...]
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For The Sin We Committed By…
September 20, 2010The High Holy Days this year coincided with the Eid and with Ganesh’s birthday, and in NYC, it coincided with Fashion Week, the 2010 week in which designers show their Spring-Summer 2011 looks to buyers, backers, celebutantes, fashion editors, bloggers, and the press. This added conundrums for some. Should they attend a prayer service or [...]
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The Networks’ Veiled Behavior
September 18, 2010Last week, Andrea Mitchell, senior foreign correspondent for NBC News, interviewed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Teheran prior to his visit to the UN this upcoming week. For the televised occasion, Ms. Mitchell wore a white headscarf that covered some of her very blonde hair and then dropped gracefully across her shoulder; Mr. Ahmadinejad [...]
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Police Recommend Pressing Charges Against Anat Hoffman; Rabinowitz Decides Who Is Kosher Enough to Carry a Sefer Torah
September 6, 2010This just in from Women of the Wall, in reference to Hoffman’s arrest in July: This week brought with it more attempts to vilify Women of the Wall and protect the Western Wall as accessible for ultra-Orthodox prayer exclusively. The Jerusalem Police recommended this week that the Ministry of Justice press charges against Anat Hoffman [...]
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(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
September 6, 2010All parties involved in the powwow are positive. Heck, they didn’t go all the way down to DC for the barbecue ribs. Bibi sent an inspiring message to the Israeli press after week 1: “We will need to think creatively, and in new ways, about how to resolve complex problems’
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PEACE TALKS MEAN ISRAELI ORPHANS
September 2, 2010Sorry, but there is no other way of summing it up. I would be surprised if the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to realize that agreeing to renew peace talks with the Palestinians will mean additional Israeli orphans. They are seven more this week and the negotiations have only started. Pregnant Talya Imes and [...]
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Camp Jewlicious Wrap Up
September 2, 2010Better late than never, eh? It’s been a hell of a week. We never really thought that we’d actually pull it off. I mean Camp Jewlicious. Four days at the breath taking Brandeis Bardin Institute, 130 participants, endless activity and discussions, music… whatever. We’ve all been in a daze this week so cut us a [...]
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A nose by any other…
August 13, 2010shape would smell as well. I could not enter the weekend without one more tiny posting. Lea Michele, who plays the character of Rachel Berry on the popular Fox TV show, ‘
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Another mother poem: messages
July 16, 2010MESSAGES in the curve of your head, its whorls of soft hair in your grasping hands and your dolphin trills some of your signals are plain as speech – your staccato kicking, a fist pressed to your eyes – but no one can decipher your most secret heart This week’s prompt at Big Tent Poetry [...]
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U.S. Tries to Restore Serbian Sovereignty over U.S.-supported “Independent” Kosovo
July 13, 2010Did anyone else catch this gem last month from North Carolina’
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Birthright Goes To Hebron Controversially?
July 7, 2010My Jewish Week article this week, on a Birthright group visiting Hebron. Birthright Goes To Hebron ‘
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Hate Crime At The Ghetto Wall
July 5, 2010Poland continues to be a place where Jews works out deep psychological problems in deplorable ways. Last week an Israeli vandalized the last major section of the Warsaw Ghetto wall. JPost reports: Former Israeli Air Force captain and Israel boycott activist Yonatan Shapira spray-painted pro-Palestinian graffiti on the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto last week, [...]