From israellycool.com [After Ariel Sharon’s stroke put him in the hospital, he was heard] making jokes, replete with double entendres. “I’m fine,” he said. “Apparently I should have taken a few days off for vacation. But we’re continuing to move forward.” [This is] a play on the name of his new party, Kadima, which means…
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From the New York Times A Happy Hipster HanukkahBy STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM HELLOOOOOOOO Jews!” the M.C. shouted to the 1,000 or so people sipping drinks and jostling elbows in the hazy purple light of Crobar, the Chelsea club, on Sunday evening. Disco balls twinkled. Electric menorahs glowed. In the candlelighted V.I.P. area, people bit into chocolate…
“VH1 ALL ACCESS: SO JEWTASTIC” PREMIERES DECEMBER 19 at 9 PM In an age when Madonna demands to be called “Esther,” Jon Stewart is a sex symbol and seemingly everyone speaks a little Yiddish, it’s never been hipper to be a Jew. VH1’s “All Access Presents: So Jewtastic” celebrates everything you knew- and lots of…
From the JTA Israeli ‘rabbicops’ probed Hundreds of Israeli policemen are believed to be obtaining rabbinical ordination to boost their salaries.Citing Justice Ministry sources, Ha’aretz reported in a weekend expose that as many as 600 policemen have taken courses for the Orthodox clergy so they could receive $430 monthly stipends. According to the newspaper, some…
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The O’Reilly Factor’s Bill O’Reilly used a year-old clip from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show in an attempt to make it look as though Comedy Central (or “Secular Central” as he called it) was out to get Christmas.Bill O’Reilly: “Predictably, the opponents of public displays of Christmas continue to put forth counterparts on “Secular Central”…
White House goes kosherFrom the JTA The White House koshered its kitchen ahead of its annual Chanukah reception. Petak Caterers, under the joint supervision of the Bergen County, N.J., rabbinical council and Washington representatives of Chabad, will serve Glatt kosher meat at the dinner Tuesday night. The meeting is taking place early because President Bush…
Professor Alan Dershowitz, Harvard’s Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, visited University of Michigan Hillel Foundation on Thursday before addressing the Jewish Law Students Association at the Michigan Union on the topic of Israel advocacy on campus. Here are some photos of Mr. Dershowitz in my office and at the Michigan Union (with Law School dean…
From the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles by Amy Klein, Religion Editor Dr. Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York, will retire in June. In that role, he has been informally considered the closest thing that the Conservative movement has to a leader. Schorsch, 70, met with The Journal…