A Horse, of Course

By Carly Silver November 19, 2010

In a blog I wrote a while back, I recalled the famed career of Thoroughbred horse racing trainer Bobby Frankel. Recently, I came across a report, written last year, about a jockey, David Cohen, who is one of the few Jewish riders in the horse racing game. Why are there so few Jews as riders…

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Typed Cartoons and Epistemology

By yschwartz November 19, 2010

I was recently forwarded a Youtube video that was made from the program that lets you create cartoons by simply typing dialogue. It is very entertaining and worth a watch, but for those who don’t have time, or have difficulty bending their ears around the computerized reproduction of ashkenazic pronunciations of Jewish legal and exegetical…

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Campus Recap

By jmerkin November 19, 2010

• Yale Hillel is eagerly awaiting mass exodus to Harvard this weekend for THE GAME. In other news, the Slifka Center for Jewish Life has instituted a new “Slifka Fellows” program, in which some of Yale’s most popular professors will eat regularly with students in the kosher kitchen. (Yale) • Critically acclaimed author Mark Steyn…

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“It Wasn’t a Conference For Us, But We Were There.”

By ckessler November 19, 2010

At the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in New Orleans, one in four delegates was a student. Over 600 students came in total—a high for the conference—and 44 of those were from the Hillel Jewish University Center (JUC) of Pittsburgh. Though attendance was clearly high on the student front, students were…

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To Cut or Not to Cut …

By bspringer November 19, 2010

It may be time for San Francisco’s mohels to, ahem, cut and run from the City by the Bay. I’ve been reading the various, uh, clips and snippets on the proposed circumcision ban and criminalization and I am outraged! (not really) OK, silly puns aside (promise, I fulfilled my prurient adolescent urges), I am feeling…

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