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When we at New Voices, the national magazine for Jewish college students, indefinitely suspended our print edition on Feb. 4, it caused some minor buzz that dissipated quickly over the weekend. Not so with Heeb, the Brooklyn magazine for irreverent Jewish hipsters, which went online-only this past Thursday to significant fanfare across the Jewish blogosphere that shows…
Call up the spirit of 1773! Defend your freedoms! Slap on the chives shmeer! The time has come for us to fight against New York’s bagel tax, proposed recently in Albany. [Above the Law] Is the IRS “impeding or denying” tax exemptions from non-profits that oppose Obama’s Israel policies? If so, the Elders of Zion need…
Heeb, the premiere magazine of condescending, irreverent, obnoxious hipster Jews, has decided to suspend its print edition. The post, by founder Josh Neuman, notes that Heeb managed to grow and expand its reach and range during this disastrous decade for print media: During the eight years we’ve printed the magazine, we’ve managed to endure the…
Sarit Hadad is a popular Israeli singer, but her latest song is a translated cover of a 1970 Arabic hit called “Do You Love Me?” The answer from your everyday Israeli: No, we don’t. The best analysis of her musical talent: “Sarit Hadad is a frecha who couldn’t sing her way out of a box.” [+972] In a…
In what will surely be a hot news topic during the next few days, former chair of the Republican National Committee Ken Mehlman has just come out. Mehlman was also President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004, and held these influential positions in the GOP as the party mounted a significant anti-gay rights charge. This is…
You thought the progressive voice in Israel was dying and that progressive policy couldn’t happen? Well, check out today’s Reading List, my doubting friend: In what may be one of the biggest long-term steps to coexistence in the land, Israel is now requiring Arabic language education across its school system. [Ha’aretz] A new liberal Israeli…
Who cares if the 42-year old Julia Roberts still manages to look like she’s thirty? Jewblogs across the internets (well, two of them, at least) have given two thumbs down to the self-absorbed story of a woman going on a culinary-spiritual dream tour around the world so she can find herself. This critique from Tablet…
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mosque-Erade www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party The Daily Show’s John Oliver wouldn’t. Arguing with resident MOT Jon Stewart about religious freedom and taboo, he says: “Jews can wear yarmulkes on Good Friday to celebrate the day you successfully murdered…
And they’re off. For the first time since the 2007 Annapolis Conference, the US is restarting direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This comes after numerous strains in the US-Israel relationship (Settlement Freeze, East Jerusalem, Flotilla, etc.), months of “proximity talks” wherein the US met separately with the Izzies and Pallies to convince them…
The vitriol of conservative talk radio never ceases to amaze me. First, Glenn Beck compares social justice to Nazism, and now Rush Limbaugh says that those who work in non-profits are “lazy idiots” and “rapists in terms of finance and economy.” Well, Rush, to show you that I’m not lazy (and not a rapist), I’m…
I am about to tell you a dramatic tale about the internecine conflicts of the Jewish philanthropic world. Here are your characters: First, there’s the Jewish Federation–in this case the Houston branch–an umbrella Jewish fundraising organization in Israel and abroad that donates to the full gamut of Jewish causes locally, nationally, internationally and–of course–in Israel….
I grew up big-C Conservative in a small-l liberal household and got confused when I read in the New York Times on Saturday, May 30, 1998 that Barry Goldwater, leader of the conservative movement, had died. Because I was 12, and because the New York Times capitalizes most words in its headlines, I didn’t pick…
For those of you who don’t know, a shanda for the goyim–a traditional Yiddish term–occurs when a Jew does something that shames us in the eyes of the world. On that note, here are some shandas. Enjoy: Not surprisingly, our first shanda comes from Facebook via Tumblr. In an album titled “Army- The Most Beautiful…
According to an official statement from the Harvard Management Company, the school has not divested from Israel. The changes in investment filing were procedural and do not reflect any ideological move whatsoever. Furthermore, Harvard still has holdings in Israel. Here is the statement from HMC’s spokesman: The Management Company’s most recent SEC filing details changes…
Nice try, Berkeley and Evergreen! Harvard may have beaten you to the task of divesting from Israel. Israeli business news site Globe reported in the above-linked article that Harvard University may have quietly scored the latest major victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at getting large institutions–including universities–to withdraw all economic activity…