Gay Dads, Kosher Nightclubs, Zionists, and Pat Robertson – New Vices

By Derek M. Kwait April 8, 2014

Sheldon Adelson Makes Gov. Chris Christie Apologize for Living in Reality The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook   Whether they know it or not, Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee are having the same conversation all Jewish communities are having now, and, like all good satire, the…

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Figure Skating to ‘Schindler’s List’ Should be Welcomed

By Zach C. Cohen February 20, 2014

Bloggers made much ado as Julia Lipnitskaia took to the ice in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. It wasn’t because she was one of the best figure skaters in the world at only 15 years old. It wasn’t that in Lipnitskaia Russia had a representative on the rink for the first time in 10…

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Marc Chagall, Revisited [Arts]

By lkatz March 19, 2012

Jewish artist Marc Chagall did not grow up around art. He claimed the concept was totally foreign to him when he one day asked a classmate how he learned to draw. According to the bohttp://blog.newvoices.org/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=11626ok Marc Chagallby Jacob Baal-Teshuva, the friend replied, “Go and find a book in the library, idiot, choose any picture you…

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NYPD surveillance; Anne Frank baptized (again); Shabbat buses; and more. [Required Reading]

By John Propper February 22, 2012

NYPD tracked Muslim students, organizations [Columbia] Recent news that the New York Police Department willfully performed surveillance on Muslim student organizations in the name of anti-terrorism measures has been met with harsh criticism by many. In light of the fears this news may provoke, the Spectator, newspaper for Columbia College, unpacks the threat to free…

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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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