Category Archives: Jews

WP: Meet the White House’s first transgender staffer

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Luke Ford

You couldn’t make up something more beautiful and more Jewish. Tikkun olam! From the Washington Post: Freedman-Gurspan’s previous job was at the National Center for Transgender Equality, where she worked as a policy adviser for the Racial and Economic Justice … Continue reading →

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Would You Miss Us?

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Luke Ford

If the Jews vanished off the face of the earth tomorrow, what about us would the world miss the most? Our sitcoms? Our writers? Our comedians? Our bankers? Our talk show hosts? Our entrepreneurs? Our scientists? Our moral leadership?

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The Jewish Tradition’s Preference For Light Skin

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Luke Ford

Anthropologist Peter Frost writes: This older way of viewing skin color—personal, relativistic, and gender-oriented—has been studied by David Goldenberg with respect to the Jews of the ancient world. The Jews considered their skin to be light brown. A second-century rabbi … Continue reading →

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NYT: Reporting From Iran, Jewish Paper Sees No Plot to Destroy Israel

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Luke Ford

Larry Cohler-Esses is the best reporter on Jewish life and the Forward does much of its best journalism. The New York Times reports: The first journalist from an American Jewish pro-Israel publication to be given an Iranian visa since 1979 … Continue reading →

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Is Obama Blaming The Jewish Lobby?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Luke Ford

I am not a Middle East expert and I have no position on the proposed treaty with Iran. Is there a Jewish lobby? It seems to me obvious that just as there is a black lobby, a business lobby, a … Continue reading →

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