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The Dov Hikind Purim Costume Backlash Grows
As we noted earlier, Dov Hikind is fighting an uphill battle against his own poor taste and his own big mouth a day after dressing up a basketball player in blackface for Purim. The Brooklyn...
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Sundown
• According to a report by Israel’s Channel 10, President Obama will tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States will move forward with a military operation against Iran if...
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Stand-Up Comedy Belongs In Museums? Art Historian Miriam Katz Says Yes.
Treating fart jokes with erudition might seem, at first, like an easy way to alienate people. But Miriam Katz, an art historian who studies stand-up—and describes interviews with comedians as “studio...
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Why Couldn't Soviet Jews See Stalin for the Anti-Semitic Monster He Was?
On a freezing morning in January 1953, Robert Kesselman, a Jewish doctor living in Sumy, a hardened provincial city in eastern Ukraine, picked up a copy of Pravda, the official Communist newspaper. The...
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Ancient Laws for Modern Times: Week 25 of Our Literary Critic’s Daf Yomi...
Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world. A good deal of the intellectual work involved in Tractate Shabbat, I have seen over the last several...
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Rafram Chaddad Was Tortured in a Libyan Prison. What He Remembers Most Is the...
Israeli artist and amateur chef Rafram Chaddad sneaked into Libya in 2010 to document the abandoned synagogues and cemeteries of the country’s vanished Jewish community. Ten days into his trip, he was...
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Daybreak
● For the first time in three months, a rocket fired from Gaza landed in southern Israel, striking a road just south of Ashkelon. [JPost] ● The Times reports on how Academy Awards organizers managed to...
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Life Lessons at a Hamantaschen Eating Contest
As I mentioned last week, I entered a Purim Day hamantaschen eating contest sponsored by EL AL Airlines with the bounty of a free trip to Israel to the winner. First, I sought out the expertise of...
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The Top 10 Phrases from This Dominique Strauss-Kahn Story
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seeking an injunction against his former lover Marcela Iacub, who is writing a tell-all memoir about her seven-month affair with the disgraced former head of the International...
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Senate Votes to End Debate on Chuck Hagel
After 12 days of filibustering, the Senate voted to end debate on the nomination of former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel for the post of defense secretary. More than a dozen Republicans joined Senate...
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Dov Hikind Apologizes For Real This Time
It’s clear that Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind was under some serious pressure yesterday after a series of New York figures lined up to condemn his indecorous racist blackface Purim costume. First...
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Famous February 26th Birthdays
Today is an abnormally special day in the history of birthdays. Among history’s titans, we celebrate: Christopher Marlowe Victor Hugo Levi Strauss Johnny Cash Tony Randall Fats Domino Ariel Sharon...
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Sundown
• By a vote count of 58-41, the Senate confirmed former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, bringing to a close a long, tumultuous nomination process. [AP] • Dan Amira looks at the most outrageous...
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What Would Jesus Listen To? New Album Tries To Answer Age-Old Question
It was the album Hillel Tigay has been training his entire life to record. Not that he knew it: Growing up as the talented son of a prominent biblical scholar, Tigay rebelled in ways that seem sweetly...
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Does a Rock in the New Mexico Desert Show the Decalogue in Ancient Hebrew?
Twenty miles south of Albuquerque in the Rio Grande Valley lies the town of Los Lunas, home to roughly 14,000 souls who tend to be religious but vote Democratic, and listen to country music but not...
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How AIPAC Is Losing
This weekend, more than 10,000 pro-Israel activists, Jews and non-Jews alike, will gather at the Washington convention center for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy...
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Daybreak
• Meetings between Iran and the P5+1 group on the Iranian nuclear program ended yesterday with the parties agreeing to meet again next month in Turkey and again in Kazakhstan in April. U.S. officials...
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Dov Hikind Gets 'The Daily Show' Treatment
Jon Stewart kicked off The Daily Show last night with a lengthy introduction of Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whom Stewart credited as a “vigorous critic of anti-Semitism,” giving a laundry list of...
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EU Consuls Endorse (Hypocritical) Sanctions Against Settlements
Over at Haaretz, Barak Ravid is reporting that the consuls general of the European Union in Ramallah and East Jerusalem have called on the EU to take harsh measures against Israeli settlements in their...
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Ed Koch Sends His Friends Horse Figurines from the Grave
Late New York City Mayor Ed Koch has long been characterized by his warmth and mercurial nature. Perhaps nothing so symbolizes this legendary combination than the news that longtime friends and...
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