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Category Archives: Jews
Tough Times For Venezuela’s Jews
Melanie Kirkpatrick writes: In 1998, the year Hugo Chavez was elected president, there were 22,000 Jews in Venezuela. Today the Jewish population is estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000. Those numbers tell a story, and it’s not a happy one. … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbi, hugo chavez, jewish institutions, melanie kirkpatrick, mr chavez, venezuela today
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A Holocaust Revisionist Attends Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)
Here’s some background from Wikipedia on Holocaust Revisionism and Holocaust denial: Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II—usually referred to as the Holocaust[1]—did not occur at all, or in the manner or to … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Holocaust, Jews
Tagged deborah lipstadt, extermination camps, historian david irving, holocaust denial, holocaust deniers, holocaust remembrance day, holocaust revisionism, los angeles museum of the holocaust
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The Jewish Week In Review
Steven I. Weiss reports:
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Eliot Spitzer Was Not A Nice Jewish Boy
In her new book, The Manhattan Madam: Sex, Drugs, Scandal, and Greed Inside America’s Most Successful Prostitution Ring, Kristin Davis writes about her life as a madam. Eliot Spitzer was a client from 2004 to 2006. He used the name … Continue reading
Posted in Jews, Prostitution
Tagged Eliot Spitzer, girl type, madam sex, prostitution ring, west coasters, york clients
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Can A Goy Become Jewish?
Son Hai Huynh emails: "I thought that one cannot convert to Judaism, one can only be born a Jew. Or am I wrong?" I responded: "Wrong!" Son responds: "Ok, you don’t have to be aggressive about it with an exclamation … Continue reading
Newsweek Says, Dance, Jews, Dance!
Steven I. Weiss writes: The very idea of a "most influential rabbis" list is of questionable value in the first place. But Newsweek does seemingly everything in its power to make sure we all get the joke. For starters, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journalism, Jews, Steven I. Weiss
Tagged baseball statistics, jews dance, lisa miller, machers, meaningful analysis, religion editor
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Comedian Robert Cait Is Kosher/Not Kosher
After watching Robert Cait‘s new comedy DVD "Kosher Not Kosher", I interviewed him at the hovel Friday afternoon. Luke: "Robert, when you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?" Robert: "A comedian or a … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Comedy, Conservative Judaism, Jews, Orthodoxy
Tagged class clown, comedy album, professional wrestling, rude guy, tiger jeet singh, trinidad tobago
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Jews Attracted To Kundilini Yoga
Kundilini Yoga doesn’t offer the enormous roadblocks that participation in Christianity throws up for a Jew, though Kundilini is plenty controversial. I’ve seen numerous Orthodox Jews at Kundilini Yoga, not to mention many less observant Jews. Mard Naman writes for … Continue reading
Irv Rubin’s Family Responds
From TER: The Los Angeles based Jewish Defense League and its CEO Shelley Rubin, the widow of former JDL chairman Irv Rubin, has responded to TER and its exclusive story concerning never-before-seen FBI documents. Shelley Rubin, now chairman of JDL, … Continue reading
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NYT Columnist Roger Cohen Does Sinai Temple
Rob Eshman writes: “New York Times columnist Roger Cohen visited my synagogue Thursday,“ writes Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple on Huffington Post today. “ All day long the sparks flew and the cultures clashed.“ In a typically lucid and … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Islam, Israel, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Jews, Journalism
Tagged jimmy delshad, mayor of beverly hills, new york times columnist, persian jews, rabbi david wolpe, york times columnist
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