Don’t Be So Quick to Dismiss Chanukah

By Editorial Board December 11, 2012

We’ve all heard the story: Chanukah, the festival of lights, celebrates the miraculous event that occurred a couple thousand years back, where the Maccabees and their friends only had enough oil to kindle their menorah for one day, but it somehow lasted for eight days and nights. We’ve also heard this story: Chanukah is an…

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The Reading List: Helen Thomas in Playboy… Not What You Think

By Ben Sales March 21, 2011

The 90-year old journalist, made famous last year for telling Israeli Jews to go back to “Poland and Germany,” gets interviewed in Playboy. She keeps her clothes on, but it’s anti-Zionist porn. [Playboy] Purim is over, but below is the funniest Purim video I’ve yet seen, this time by a couple guys I know from Camp Ramah…

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The Reading List: Uncle Leo Z”L

By Ben Sales February 17, 2011

Uncle Leo, beloved uncle of Jerry Seinfeld on the classic sitcom, has passed away at 88. [JPost] The former editor of the Jerusalem Report will head Hillel’s new Israel Engagement Center. [JPost] A story we kind of missed: It’s not just the Maccabeats: Jewish a capella rises at college. [Forward] Students at a Haredi yeshiva…

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The (Double) Reading List: When a “Maccabeats” reference goes too far

By Ben Sales December 8, 2010

Today the concerned and compassionate editors of New Voices are offering you a double reading list to apologize for dropping the ball on these roundups yesterday and on Monday. Enjoy these ten worthwhile links from the Jewish internet: We all love Maccabeatlemania, but here’s how we shouldn’t use the craze that’s sweeping American Jewry. On…

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The Reading List: How the Maccabeats EXPLODED on the Internet

By jmerkin December 3, 2010

We’ve all seen this video already (though obviously, you’re about to view it again, now that it’s in front of your face on your laptop screen). With over 870,000 views, the Maccabeat’s “Candelight” is taking the interwebs by storm, and is garnering coverage by major news sites. Here is a reading list on how the…

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The Reading List: Princeton Students Are Pro-Hummus Choice

By Ben Sales November 29, 2010

Sabra Hummus’s parent company supports the IDF, so some pro-BDS students at Princeton want alternative Middle Eastern dips at the dining hall. This makes me doubt these students’ sincerity, because if they really cared about the Middle East, they’d know the value of a good hummus. I mean, have they tasted Sabra’s competition? [The Daily Princetonian]…

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