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31 Jul
Culture, Latest

This Week's Links

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Michelle Albert
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By Michelle Albert The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have threatened Sacha Baron Cohen's life because of their inclusion in his latest film farce, Bruno. Fashionistas of...

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20 Apr
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UN Racism Conference Starts Today–Ahmadinejad Accuses Israel of Genocide

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
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By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler Well, it's not as if the United Nations Durban II conference against racism was ever going to avoid controversy. The primary storyline going into...

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12 Nov
Culture, Latest, Religion

A B’racha for Barack? The Obama Kiddush

  • July 13, 2023
  • By author-avatar Mandy Katz
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By Mandy Katz Raise a glass tonight and every night through January 20. You don't have to know Hebrew to intone this one (though it helps...

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07 Nov
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Obama's Jewish CIA Director: Anthony Lake?

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Jeremy Gillick
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The New York Times claims Lake can have the job if he wants it. While it's not clear that he does, he's certainly in the...

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07 Nov
Latest, Religion

Is Rahm Emanuel the Jewish LBJ?

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Jeremy Gillick
  • 2 comments
Who is Rahm Emanuel (Barack Obama’s new Chief of Staff)? For starters, he’s Jewish. He, his wife Amy, and their three children attend the Anshei Sholom...

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24 Oct
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Finding the "Real (Jewish) Americans"

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Mandy Katz
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More than 200 professors of Jewish studies have joined to form the latest Jews-for-Obama group, reports The Jewish Daily Forward. But the Republican Jewish Coalition...

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26 Sep
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Sarah Silverman's Great Schlep

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Mindy Gold
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Trying to push American Jewish seniors to vote Democrat, the Jewish Council for Education & Research has enlisted Sarah Silverman as the face of its...

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18 Sep
Jewish World, Latest

Jews Go Gaga for Eggheads

  • February 17, 2025
  • By author-avatar Lawrence Kessner
  • 1 comment
By InTheMoment contributor Larry Kessner. Maybe in the Czech Republic, poets can become president, but not here. Maybe in France they like their presidents to be...

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16 Sep
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Palin and Evangelicals Give Jews the Creeps. Relax, People.

  • February 13, 2025
  • By author-avatar Lawrence Kessner
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By Inthemoment contributor Larry Kessner. OK, I understand why the Jews are nervous about Sarah Palin. Forget all the chatter about Obama being "out of...

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11 Sep
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Rabbis for Obama

  • March 29, 2013
  • By author-avatar Jeremy Gillick
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Over 300 American rabbis publicly announced their support for Barack Obama yesterday with the launch of a “Rabbis for Obama” website. The movement was founded by...

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05 Sep
Latest, Misc

MO's Jewish Cousin, A Rabbi Close to the Obamas

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
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The Forward recently reported that Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama, has a cousin once removed who is a rabbi on Chicago's South Side....

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15 Aug
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Web Op-Ed: I Used to be a Democrat by David Epstein

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
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By David Epstein My trajectory from Democrat to Republican had a few curves of my own making. First, I volunteered to work for George McGovern...

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