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What Kind of Jewish Home Will I Build With My Non-Jewish Fiancé?
Continue reading: Wandering in the desertContinue reading "What Kind of Jewish Home Will I Build With My Non-Jewish Fiancé?" at...
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Daybreak
• As authorities investigate whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing had received training, some officials believe that more attacks were being planned by the suspects. [NYT] • An Iranian...
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Latest Proof of Chuck Hagel's Boundless Hatred of Israel
His months-long acrimonious nomination battle over, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pulled back the curtain on Monday and showed his real feelings about the Jewish State…by confirming an unprecedented...
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Philip Roth Pays Tribute to a Mentor (Who Later Appeared as a Character)
Over the weekend, Philip Roth delivered a eulogy for Bob Lowenstein, an old teacher of Roth’s from Weequahic High School. While Roth may be retired from writing, an abridged version of the address was...
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Israel Sees Uranium Lining in Arms Deal
As I wrote earlier, the United States and Israel embarked on a groundbreaking (figuratively) arms deal that included the sale of equipment that the United States has never before sold to another ally....
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The Scroll Recipe Series: Pimentón Lamb
While we were away in Poland, Friend-of-The-Scroll Emily Fleischaker prepared one of my favorite recipes for a feature she does at BuzzFeed. She even asked me for advice about how make it, which is...
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Boston Bomber Suspected of Killing Three Men, Two of Whom Were Jewish
As more information becomes known about the suspects in last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon, an ABC report says that authorities believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older suspect in the attack who...
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Sundown
• A terrorist plot to blow up the railroad between Toronto and New York City was reportedly thwarted by Canadian security forces working with their American counterparts. [Reuters] • New York reports...
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Braille and Audiobooks Help Blind Jews Stay Connected to Their Community
Yael Korc, age 10 and a half, has been blind since birth. Retinopathy of prematurity robbed her of sight, but her parents, Rebecca and Marcelo Korc of Austin, Texas, are determined not to let this slow...
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Why Jodi Picoult's New Holocaust Fiction Is Far From Trashy
Jodi Picoult’s wildly successful novels, which have sold over 14 million copies, tend to rely on a simple formula: a controversial, sexy topic expressed in a courtroom drama with a twist at the end....
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Personal Space: Literary Critic Adam Kirsch's Weekly Talmud Study
Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world. As best I can recall, in my Talmud reading so far there has been only one reference to the Messiah. This...
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Daybreak
• Supporting findings by French and British authorities, an Israeli general claims that Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime has repeatedly been using chemical weapons against Syrian rebels in the last...
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Video: Bronx Science High School's Holocaust Museum
For Eric Stern, the Holocaust Leadership Class at The Bronx High School of Science was “probably the most formative experience I’ve had to date.” Stern spoke this past Friday at a reopening ceremony of...
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Remembering Children's Book Author E.L. Konigsburg
When I learned yesterday that my favorite children’s book author, E.L. Konigsburg, had died on April 19 at the age of 83, I looked up at the shelf of her books and realized that, in a way, she had been...
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A Night with the Israeli Philharmonic in Warsaw
Last Thursday, after attending a concert of the Israel Philharmonic dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, I emailed a short video from the event to a group of friends. In the...
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Vox Tablet Scores a SJP Award
It’s awards season and we’ve got a little nachus to share. One of our Vox Tablet podcast episodes–Taken for a Ride in Jerusalem–by contributor Daniel Estrin has won the Award for Digital Audio given by...
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The Downfall of Haaretz
Just over two years ago, Haaretz was the subject of a hefty New Yorker piece by David Remnick (it’s no longer behind a paywall). The doorstop of a profile covered the history of the storied newspaper,...
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Sundown
• Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, was reportedly influenced and steered toward radical Islam by a mysterious man named Misha, who convinced Tsarnaev to give up...
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Forget the Diet. Getting Spiritually Fit Will Help You Get Through Major...
I dieted for my wedding. A month before the nuptials, I spotted a tree with a flyer that read “Lose twenty pounds in a month.” I donned my Ray-Bans and discreetly tore the tag from the bottom of the...
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Michael Steinhardt’s Collection of Judaica in Landmark Sale at Sotheby’s
With a reported net worth of over $1 billion, Michael Steinhardt presumably doesn’t need the money. But at 72, the philanthropist and hedge-fund magnate felt it was time to offer a new generation the...
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