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President Obama Becomes First World Leader to Congratulate Bibi
It’s almost been a week since Benjamin Netanyahu secured his third term as the Israeli Prime Minister and his phone hasn’t rung. Bibi stands at the window, plaintively watching the snowfall in Rehavia,...
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What Dr. Seuss Taught the Berenstein Bears About Writing, Life
I always imagined that if Theodor Geisel–the real name behind Dr. Seuss–were to ever issue writing advice it would be in a whimsical rhyming form that would ultimately offend and disappoint the...
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Sundown
• When asked about reports that Iran’s underground nuclear facility at Fordo had suffered a major explosion, White House spokesman Jay Carney knocked down the rumors saying he didn’t believe they were...
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Researching a Mystery Novel, an Author Picks Up a Gun for the First Time
I’m probably the last person anyone would imagine shopping for a handgun. When I was growing up in the 1960s, guns were about as alien in our household as a crucifix; in fact, they blurred together as...
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The Talmud Says: If You're Going Walking on the Sabbath, Be Sure You Wear the...
One of the themes that most interests me in the Talmud is how it proposes the Torah scholar as the supreme human type. Scholars, we learn in ways direct and indirect, are at the apex of Jewish society;...
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Hitler's Toilet Is In a New Jersey Auto Shop
Florence, N.J., isn’t too different from other small towns in the Garden State, one marked, if anything, by a slew of very ordinary sights—chain flower shops at every major intersection, decidedly...
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Daybreak: Murdoch Apologizes for Bibi Cartoon
• News Corps baron Rupert Murdoch apologized for the “grotesque” cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Sunday Times of London, depicting the Israeli premier fashioning a wall out...
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Violent Jewish Riots Erupt Following Netanyahu Cartoon: Okay, Not Really
In the wake of a controversial cartoon published in the Sunday Times of London, massive crowds of angry Jewish protestors gathered in Hyde Park yesterday and, whipped into a fervor by local rabbis,...
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Senate Committee Okays John Kerry for Secretary of State
Noted windsurfer and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry was officially recommended by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be the next secretary of state, a post for which he was nominated by...
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An Intervention Letter to Kate Moss, Fellow Hummus Addict
Dear Kate Moss, We’ve never met, but we have many things in common. We are both, for example, skinny and gorgeous international supermodels. But more importantly, as we learned only the other day,...
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Stanley Fischer, Israel's Central Bank Head, to Retire
Stanley Fischer, the Rhodesia-born Israeli economist who was once considered a leading candidate for the post of World Bank President (and IMF Chief, had he been two years younger), is something of a...
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In the Los Angeles mayoral race, candidates play up their Jewishness
This recent presidential election should have—in theory—made a few things clear to politicians about what to avoid doing in public appearances. They should all know by now that pretending to be...
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Sundown
• President Barack Obama announced his support for a bipartisan proposal on immigration reform. The plan would vastly overhaul many aspects of naturalization process. [WSJ] • Gerald Scarfe, who drew...
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From India to Hungary to Morocco, No Matter What It’s Called, Cholent Is the...
My mother’s family was one of the last Jewish households to leave Detroit for the suburbs in the white flight of the 1960s. One year on Sukkot, often a chilly holiday in Michigan, the family was...
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Chuck Hagel Likes Ike. But Is He Reading History Correctly?
When Barack Obama first came to office, the model bandied about by journalists and academics was Abraham Lincoln. The 44th president of the United States, our first African-American commander-in-chief,...
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Meet Henryk Broder, the Christopher Hitchens of German–Jewish Relations
In May 2012, Germany and Israel together celebrated the 100th birthday of the media mogul Axel Springer. Springer, who died in 1985, was Germany’s William Randolph Hearst: He built a huge media empire...
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Daybreak
• According to reports, Israeli jets struck what is thought to be a convey carrying weapons across the border from Syria into Lebanon. Others are saying it was on the Syrian side. Others yet are saying...
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10 Years Later: Looking Up at Israeli Astronaut Ilan Ramon
Friday will mark the 10-year anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which took the lives of seven astronauts, including Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space. It seems reductive to...
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Scroll Shidduch Series: Did Love Gain Representation in the Nation's Capital?
As we reported a few weeks ago, a group of seven Jewish men boldly anonymously posted an ad on Craiglist asking seven Jewish women to join them at a Shabbas table in Washington, D.C. Perhaps the most...
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Report: Hamas Endorses Two-State Solution
Haaretz is reporting that Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, has given the nod to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the 1967 borders. Khaled Meshal, head of...
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