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by Moriel Rothman We are a people of conscience, a people of justice. We are a people who knows what it means to be hated and what it means to suffer. This is what I have been raised to believe. This is why I have faith that when this story reaches us, all of us,…
The author was living a comfortable life in Hebrew University’s graduate school. So she decided to move to the capital of the West Bank.
Vox Tablet checks in with some Jewish football players as America gears up for a season of America’s real pastime. [Tablet] More sports! The Jewish Journal’s sports blog lists the top ten most Jewish sports franchises. What constitutes as a Jewish franchise? Really anything from a Jewish owner, history, players, announcers, food, or anything else that the…
When we at New Voices, the national magazine for Jewish college students, indefinitely suspended our print edition on Feb. 4, it caused some minor buzz that dissipated quickly over the weekend. Not so with Heeb, the Brooklyn magazine for irreverent Jewish hipsters, which went online-only this past Thursday to significant fanfare across the Jewish blogosphere that shows…
I don’t just mean the fluidity of our bodies, the smooth way that we have of using the natural world and then forgetting to call it the morning after. “I care for you, baby, and I’m sorry…” I walked into a grocery store yesterday – holy culture shock! I had forgotten there are people who…
Call up the spirit of 1773! Defend your freedoms! Slap on the chives shmeer! The time has come for us to fight against New York’s bagel tax, proposed recently in Albany. [Above the Law] Is the IRS “impeding or denying” tax exemptions from non-profits that oppose Obama’s Israel policies? If so, the Elders of Zion need…
As my El Al plane touched the ground in Israel and the usual clapping commenced, I realized: I have no ticket home, I’m not here as a tourist, I’m not part of any program or group, I am just here. Here to live… forever (so to speak). And then I thought, “So that’s it, I…
Heeb, the premiere magazine of condescending, irreverent, obnoxious hipster Jews, has decided to suspend its print edition. The post, by founder Josh Neuman, notes that Heeb managed to grow and expand its reach and range during this disastrous decade for print media: During the eight years we’ve printed the magazine, we’ve managed to endure the…
Sarit Hadad is a popular Israeli singer, but her latest song is a translated cover of a 1970 Arabic hit called “Do You Love Me?” The answer from your everyday Israeli: No, we don’t. The best analysis of her musical talent: “Sarit Hadad is a frecha who couldn’t sing her way out of a box.” [+972] In a…
“Abraham’s Daughters,” a play now showing in New York City, explores the complicated social dynamics between a group of four freshman friends–a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian and an atheist. If you think that sounds complicated, wait until they start dating.
In what will surely be a hot news topic during the next few days, former chair of the Republican National Committee Ken Mehlman has just come out. Mehlman was also President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004, and held these influential positions in the GOP as the party mounted a significant anti-gay rights charge. This is…
Yesterday, we posted my review of two new machzorim, pluralist Machzor Eit Ratzon and Conservative Mahzor Lev Shalem. If you’re into brevity, or less obsessed with liturgy than I am, I recommend that review. If however, you like to read very long things or you’re into siddur design and liturgical minutiae, head on over to…
You thought the progressive voice in Israel was dying and that progressive policy couldn’t happen? Well, check out today’s Reading List, my doubting friend: In what may be one of the biggest long-term steps to coexistence in the land, Israel is now requiring Arabic language education across its school system. [Ha’aretz] A new liberal Israeli…
Who cares if the 42-year old Julia Roberts still manages to look like she’s thirty? Jewblogs across the internets (well, two of them, at least) have given two thumbs down to the self-absorbed story of a woman going on a culinary-spiritual dream tour around the world so she can find herself. This critique from Tablet…