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Vox Tablet checks in with some Jewish football players as America gears up for a season of America’s real pastime. [Tablet] More sports! The Jewish Journal’s sports blog lists the top ten most Jewish sports franchises. What constitutes as a Jewish franchise? Really anything from a Jewish owner, history, players, announcers, food, or anything else that the…
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…
I don’t just mean the fluidity of our bodies, the smooth way that we have of using the natural world and then forgetting to call it the morning after. “I care for you, baby, and I’m sorry…” I walked into a grocery store yesterday – holy culture shock! I had forgotten there are people who…
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…
As my El Al plane touched the ground in Israel and the usual clapping commenced, I realized: I have no ticket home, I’m not here as a tourist, I’m not part of any program or group, I am just here. Here to live… forever (so to speak). And then I thought, “So that’s it, I…
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…
Yesterday, we posted my review of two new machzorim, pluralist Machzor Eit Ratzon and Conservative Mahzor Lev Shalem. If you’re into brevity, or less obsessed with liturgy than I am, I recommend that review. If however, you like to read very long things or you’re into siddur design and liturgical minutiae, head on over to…
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…
Baba Ganoush is one of those things that has made its way from Arab culture to Israeli culture to Trader Joe’s. It’s also one of those things, though it is available world wide, that will always be better in the Middle East. I always kind of liked it and I always kind of wondered what…
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…