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Dude, Where’s Your Shtreimel?
In Jerusalem, reports the API, there’s a proposed ban on the importation of fur. While I’m a die-hard vegetarian, and ...
Israeli Reactions to Netanyahu’s Speech
The full text of Netanyahu’s foreign policy speech at Bar Ilan can be found here. (Ha’aretz)Reactions:“Netanyahu had the worst of ...
Your Search For “Bacon” Has Produced “0” Results
Have you tried out Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing? I’ve used it a couple of times. It seems pretty good, ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer Bashes Barbra Streisand
I don’t know why I thought that I.B. Singer died before the 20th century. Maybe I was mixing up the ...
What’s Wrong With Interracial Jewish Relationships?
Last week was the 42nd anniversary of the legalization of interracial relationships in the US. The landmark Supreme Court case ...
Self-Hating Jews
Defining Jewish self-hatred is, like most matters in Jewish life, subject to debate.
The Smell of Non-Kosher Food
I spoke to Stephanie, who was coming out of the very tasty (and very not kosher) Tartine Bakery, on 18th ...
Israeli Response to Obama’s Cairo Speech
Thumbs up:Yossi Sarid called it “the speech of our lives, the lives of all the damned in all the areas ...
Ortho-Inmates Get Unfair Treatment
Today on the subway the guy next to me was reading this story in the Post and all I could ...
Jews on the Chocolate Trail
“Every time I put a piece of chocolate in my mouth, the entire world grinds to a screeching, blinding halt,” ...
Let the Haters Eat Cake
So far, June has been pretty depressing. Dr. Tiller was shot. A neo-Nazi stormed the Holocaust museum Luckily, I just ...