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| Lessons in diplomacy, Israeli-style | |
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| Gregory Levey's account of his short career working for Israel, "Shut Up, I'm Talking",
abounds with funny anecdotes but is mired in antipathy for the country itself. | |
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| By Paul Gross | |
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| My night of broken glass | |
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| For years after I was attacked on the 52nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, I would light a yarzheit candle every year to mourn the loss of who I was before it happened. | |
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| Caryn Aviv | |
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| A pilgrim's progress | |
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| 'Houses of Study' is about the coming-of-age not only of a single individual, but also of a generation of women brought up in a not-yet self-confident stream of Orthodoxy. | |
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| Esther Solomon | |
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| Glass ceiling for eruvs? | |
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| While the number of U.S. urban eruvs grow, the Westhampton eruv effort is meeting fierce local resistance.
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| Shlomo Shamir | |
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| Battle of the attitude / Israeli girls vs. American Jews | |
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| There's Israeli archeology, Israeli technology, even Israeli couscous, 'Israeli au pair' seems to be the ultimate oxymoron.
Even the staunchest American Jewish supporters of Israel warned me against it.
"They don't know the first thing about service, plus they're arrogant, rude and self-centered," said one friend. "I wouldn't trust them with my kids," barked out another. | |
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| Marco Greenberg | |
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| Epiphany in a Spanish neo-Nazi bookstore | |
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| I came to Barcelona having fallen in love with a woman who lived in the Catalonian capital. But when I arrived my heart skipped another beat, only this time it was for a less auspicious reason - there were swastikas everywhere. | |
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| Roi Ben-Yehuda | |
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| Prayer by proxy at the Western Wall | |
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| There was a time appealing to God at the holiest place on earth for Jews was only for those physically in Jerusalem. Now anyone can say a prayer at the Wall while in the comfort of their own home, office or anywhere in between, thanks to a new Web site. | |
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| Martine Berens | |
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| Malik Obama: My brother would be good president for the Jews | |
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| Barack Obama's Muslim half-brother sends a special blessing to the Jewish people from his home in Kenya. | |
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| By Haaretz Service | |
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| Kosher comic hero | |
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| An X-Men mutant survives the Holocaust in a new Marvel Comics miniseries. | |
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| By Mordechai Shinefeld, The Forward | |
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| Exporting Israeli sex appeal | |
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| You can catch attractive and fresh-faced Israelis starring in promotions around the world. One agency alone sends 15-30 actors abroad each month to appear in Turkish, Russian and Eastern European commercials. | |
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| By Yotam Feldman | |
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| Rolling with the Na Nachs, the most high-spirited and newest Hasidic sect | |
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| The Na Nach techno-hassids: missionaries for a dancing sprituality | |
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| Adam Molner | |
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| Does Birthright deliver? | |
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| Taglit-Birthright Israel is the original, the most dominant and the best-funded of the numerous organizations set up since 2000 that offer young Jews the opportunity to go on short and long-term trips to Israel. | |
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| By Alison Avigayil Ramer | |
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| A seriously comic show | |
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| 'Take the Bassa with Sababa' is the first ever exhibition of Israeli comics in London. But will the British public understand the humor? | |
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| By Sarah Lightman | |
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| Hunt for kosher chicken causes headache for Apprentice 'Jewish' contestant | |
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| Competitor in BBC's version of cut-throat business competition tries to pass off halal slaughtered chicken as kosher. | |
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| By Sara Miller | |
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| My big fat gay Jewish family | |
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| I will never forget the day I was propositioned to become a gay co-parent. When David gingerly popped the question, I thought the earth was moving underneath my car as we drove through San Francisco. | |
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| By Caryn Aviv | |
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| Why Was This Seder Different From All Other Seders? | |
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| At Seder night, my formerly Catholic, now Heeb magazine-subscribing, Herzl-reading, super-Jewy, uber-fabulous girlfriend (who probably knows more Yiddish than I do) would be meeting the parents for the first time.
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| By Caryn Aviv | |
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| Make love not war: new 'reconciliation' at Israeli adult Web site | |
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| There is one place in the Middle East where Arabs and Jews seem to be getting along quite well. It's the Israeli Web site Parpar1.com, which showcases amateur pornography featuring only Israeli Arabs and Jews.
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| By Jon Kalish, The Forward | |
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| Fashion wars / U.S. store pulls 'pro-violence' Palestinian T-shirt | |
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| Popular U.S. clothing store Urban Outfitters has halted sales of a T-shirt apparently supporting Palestinian violence that has sparked outrage in the American Jewish community.
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| By Alison Avigayil Ramer | |
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| From Superman to Sabraman, museum exhibits Jewish comics | |
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| The immigrant car salesman, Abie the Agent, spoke with a Yiddish accent. Created in 1914 by Harry Hershfield, Abie was the first Jewish comic book character ever to be syndicated.
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| By The Associated Press | |
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