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Daniel's Bar Mitzvah Video Eclipses GDP of Small Nations
A bar mitzvah save the date video–who knew?–for the ages came over the transom today (h/t David Fine) that may redefine the way you look at Jewish-American ritual, the production value of homemade...
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Tzipi Livni to Join Bibi's Coalition, Will Head Negotiations With Palestinians
Today in strange bedfellows, Tzipi Livni, who fought tooth and nail with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Israeli premiership in 2009 and criticized him frequently ever since, has announced...
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Sundown
• With Congress out of session this week, President Obama is calling for a deal to avoid broad cuts, including defense positions and first responders that will be enacted on March 1 without a deal....
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Video: Joan Nathan Shows You How To Bake Perfect Hamantaschen—Cookies for Purim
Hamantaschen, Purim’s traditional triangular cookies, are relatively new to the Jewish gastronomic scene. They most likely originated in Bohemia, in what is now the Czech Republic, just two or three...
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A Hollywood Studio Boss Saved Hundreds of Jews From the Holocaust. Why Was He...
On Dec. 27, 1938, a young woman in Berlin named Johanna Rockmann sat down and wrote a desperate letter to a stranger in California. In the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht, it was clear that things...
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What Happened to Queen Esther? X-Rated Purim Costumes Are the New Norm.
In Tel Aviv, you don’t have to follow the Jewish calendar to know that Purim is coming up this weekend. All you have to do is venture outside, since this is the wonderful time of year when all the...
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Daybreak
• Following yesterday’s announcement that Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua would join Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, it seems other parties may now be lining up. Rumored to be next: Shas...
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How Sequester Might Drastically Impact Iron Dome and Israeli Security
After the fiscal crisis was delayed for the second time just weeks ago, leaving the fast-approaching March 1 deadline as the newest cliff/drop-off/time bomb/etc., many Jewish organizations and...
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The Newest Insane Twist in the Chuck Hagel Saga
Something more ridiculous than usual happened this morning. After nearly a week of blessed quiet, Daily News writer Dan Friedman let it slide that he believed himself to be the source of a discredited...
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From Atlanta to Brazil: Bar Mitzvah Video of the Day
Yesterday, we looked at perhaps the most elaborate bar mitzvah save the date in the history of the internet. It features a bar mitzvah boy to be named Daniel, rapping his way through Atlanta and into...
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Reason #254462 for the EU to Blacklist Hezbollah
A trial happening right now in Cyprus may have huge ramifications for the future of the European Union and its relationship with Hezbollah. The trial is currently subject to a media blackout–not a real...
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Michael Moore Aids 'Five Broken Cameras' Director at LAX
Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated film Five Broken Cameras with Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi, ran into some trouble at Los Angeles International Airport this...
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Sundown
• Members of an Iranian cell that was reportedly planning terror attacks against Israeli and American targets within the country were arrested today. Among their purported targets: a local Chabad and...
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Epic Jewish Food Fight: Latke vs. Hamantaschen
Purim begins this Saturday night, and on college campuses nationwide star academics will celebrate the holiday by facing off on the most pressing culinary question in Judaism: latkes or hamantaschen?...
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What If 'Lincoln' and ‘Life of Pi’ Got Sequels With Jewish Characters?
Continue reading: Life of PiContinue reading "What If 'Lincoln' and ‘Life of Pi’ Got Sequels With Jewish Characters?" at...
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Secret Documents Reveal How the Israeli Government Handled the Sabra and...
A year and a half ago, I took over as Israel’s state archivist—and thus came to administer hundreds of millions of documents that tell the story of the Jewish state’s history and the actions of its...
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Daybreak
• Reported as a snub or bus-throwing-under, Secretary of State John Kerry won’t be visiting Israel on his upcoming Mideast trip because Israel’s coalition is not yet set. He will, however, travel to...
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If Philip Roth Sold His Characters to Disney
Philip Roth is calling it a career..In an interview with a French publication called Les Inrocks last month … Roth, 78, said he has not written anything new in the last three years, and that he will...
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Daniel's Bar Mitzvah Video Goes Viral
While it seems that we were the very first to post Daniel Blumen’s bar mitzvah Save the Date video, it turns out that we were not the last. Upon our first viewing on Tuesday, the video had but a few...
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Why 'Jew' and 'Goy' Are Not Scrabble Words
BuzzFeed’s Copyranter advertising blog has a pretty amazing collection of Scrabble advertisements from around the world on their site today (like the one above from Poland), which prompted me to think...
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