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Since E!’s The Soup premiered a few years back, I’ve enjoyed watching thirty-something comic Joel McHale give Hollywood stars slaps-upside-the-head for being idiots. I’ve recently gotten into Community, a comedy on NBC about a disbarred lawyer who has to return to community college to get his degree, starring McHale. Like everywhere else, the issue of […]
I wrote recently that the holiest day of the University of Texas year and the holiest day of the Jewish year would coincide next fall when the Red River Rivalry (the big game to end all big games) will be played on Yom Kippur. One story I somehow missed until now about this was an […]
I would like to position my post as following in the footsteps of the theme outlined by another post here on New Voices, by Max Moncaster on October 5th: exploring Judaism on my own terms. Much of the new positive thinking that I have engaged in since beginning my semester at Pardes -– that, on […]
It’s possible: Reportedly, Israelis are making their way to the Palestinian Oktoberfest in the Christian town of Taybeh… [Forward Schmooze] And meanwhile, the Israeli government is advancing a bill requiring all Palestinian-Israelis to take a loyalty oath to the state. The shandas for the goyim never stop… [YNet] As long as we’re on the topic […]
Roger Waters responded Monday to the ADL’s claim that his performance of “Goodbye Blue Sky” in The Wall Live tour was anti-Semitic in an open letter to The Independent, a U.K. newspaper. Waters, the bassist for Pink Floyd, was accused of having anti-Semitic video imagery projected on to a backdrop during his show by the […]
When I first moved to Israel I lived in the student dorms in Mount Scopus, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For those unfamiliar with the area, the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew U is located in north-east Jerusalem. Therefore there are many Arab neighborhoods around the University. The location never much mattered. However, soon […]
Internal British party politics don’t usually have implications for the American Jewish press, but the election of Ed Miliband to the Labour party’s top post at the end of September recalls Moment Magazine’s cover story a few months ago, featuring his brother, David Miliband. David served as foreign secretary under Gordon Brown and was the […]
Ben Sales offers a reasoned and fair critique of BDS – namely, its sacrificing of longer-term practical goals for the sake of a (completely defensible and just) moral standpoint. This is a tactical choice that the movement has made. It’s one with which I disagree, but have no problem accepting as a valid and respectable […]