Jews Archives

03 Feb

The Hypocrisy of Boycotting

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
5 comments

by Daniel Hoffman Many European and American students are familiar with academic boycotts of Israel, campaigns which emerged in the United Kingdom in the midst of...

28 Jan

History, Latest

The Holocaust Today

May 8, 2012
By Symi Rom-Rymer
1 comment

By Symi Rom-Rymer January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. In 2005, 60 years after the liberation,...

25 Jan

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Hollywood, Oscars and the Jews

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
10 comments

By Sophie Taylor This morning's Oscar nominations did no favors to anyone hoping to dispel the myth that Jews control Hollywood. In the nine most prominent...

16 Jan

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Sarah Palin's Jewish Problem

May 8, 2012
By Symi Rom-Rymer
9 comments

By Symi Rom-Rymer By now, anyone with access to the internet will know about the latest furor in the wake of the tragic shooting in Tuscon:...

24 Dec

Culture, Latest

AIPAC vs. Seinfeld

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
4 comments

by Daniel Kieval I recently heard a lecture by J. J. Goldberg, senior columnist for The Forward, about the current state of American Judaism and its...

10 Dec

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People of the Book: Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

May 8, 2012
By Symi Rom-Rymer
1 comment

By Symi Rom-Rymer The story of Jewish Eastern European immigration is a familiar one. Even if one never had the chance to know their relatives from...

07 Dec

Culture, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest

Maccabeats Suffer “Wardrobe Malfunction”

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
3 comments

By Doni Kandel The Yeshiva University Maccabeats, the university’s a capella group that has taken the United States by storm, received one of their first ugly...

19 Nov

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It's 1979, do you know where your Nazis are?

May 8, 2012
By Symi Rom-Rymer
1 comment

By Symi Rom-Rymer By 1948, World War II had been over for three years, yet hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced persons remained scattered throughout...

02 Nov

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The Emergence of Jewish Republicans

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
2 comments

By Gabriel Weinstein After a year of raucous Tea Party protests, growing disillusionment with presidential policies and economic stagnation, Republicans’ fantasy of regaining control of at...

07 Oct

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Textbook Tussle

May 8, 2012
By Symi Rom-Rymer
0 comments

By Symi Rom-Rymer "No other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding as a catastrophe," categorically stated Education...

06 Oct

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Jews In the Media on Jews In The Media

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
2 comments

By Ben Goldberg CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired last weekend after calling Jon Stewart a “bigot” and saying that CNN and most of the media...

05 Oct

Culture, Latest, Religion

They’re Here, They’re Queer….We’re still getting used to it.

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
53 comments

By Niv Elis Dismayed. Disappointed. Disgusted. These are the adjectives commenters posted in response to a statement by The Jewish Standard, a New Jersey weekly, declaring that...