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The hot new book to have on your coffee table during the High Holidays this year is “Bad for Jews” by Scott Sherman, a hilarious account of which Jewish celebrities are bad, worse and the worst for the Jewish image. Clear away the Ansel Adams books and old copies of Reform Judaism Magazine and make room for the funniest book of the season. Sherman is a staff writer on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” so expect great jokes and relevant comedy that is relevant to everyone from boychick to bubbe. So he delivers, but then goes on to make his writing appealing to all ages, which is a pretty good value for $13.99. The book takes 50 Jewish celebrities and discusses why they are great or not so great for the Jews.
Including responses to recent on-campus agitation, tales of Jewish campus life back in the day and more, there is plenty to digest this week about college Jewry. J Street U leader Logan Bayroff has an op-ed in the Forward calling for a more open, less polarized dialogue about Israel on campus in response to Hillel‘s […]
Greetings, readers of New Voices, my name is Alan Borenstein and I am a part of the Israel Teaching Fellows program. There are several ITF groups sprinkled about the country. My group, based in Rehovot, has Israeli counterparts with whom we will work and learn with throughout the year. My ITF group is administered by […]
Daniel Sieradski is organizing a Kol Nidrei minyan in at Zuccotti Park, home base of the Occupy Wall Street folks, at 7 p.m. this Friday night. I don’t believe it’s set in stone yet, but Rabbi Arthur Waskow may be delivering a devar and or leading the service. Sieradski is looking for knowledgeable service leaders. […]
To be perfectly honest, I had to Google the term “Traditional Egalitarian” when I decided to write this piece. If admitting that hasn’t robbed me of all of my credibility, allow me to make it worse: the results were sparse and mostly unhelpful, so I had to then call my own personal Google, my dad. […]
As former New Voices editor Josh Nathan-Kazis rightly points out, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg oddly implied a common Jew/New Yorker identity in his Rosh Hashanah message: MAYOR BLOOMBERG WISHES NEW YORKERS A SHANAH TOVAH U’METUKAH “When shofars sound in synagogues and community centers across our city on Rosh Hashanah, New Yorkers customarily say ‘Hayom […]
So we have this new blog coming out soon called the Global Jewish Voice. And we have this little problem… It doesn’t have an editor. If you or someone you know is a college student with experience editing a blog, especially a college blog, drop me a line at david@newvoices.org for more information. We gonna […]
On Friday – the second day of Rosh Hashanah – United States Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) announced the birth of his first child: a son, weighing in at a healthy 8 lbs. and 12 oz. According to a short notice posted on the Boulder Weekly, Polis joked that the boy – named Caspian Julius – […]
Does Justin Timberlake look Jewish to you? The Tennessee-born hitmaker might not be a member of the Tribe, but he’s set to play one in Spinning Gold, an upcoming biopic about Neil Bogart. The late founder of Casablanca Records, Bogart was a Jew from Brooklyn who introduced the world to musical acts like KISS. The […]
During my interview with Kosha Dillz, he mentioned how rappers often portray Jews as “record label executives and lawyers who hoard rappers’ cash.” I decided to do a bit of research, and it turns out that he’s right – pretty much all the references to Jews in hippity-hop are as lawyers or rich kids—in fact, Jewishness […]