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WP: Meet the White House’s first transgender staffer
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?
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
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
NYT: Reporting From Iran, Jewish Paper Sees No Plot to Destroy Israel
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