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Category Archives: The Jewish Press
Dumbest Comments By A Jew
Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: The winner of my fourth annual Henry Schwarzschild Award for most offensive comments by a Jew in the public spotlight is David Landau, editor of Haaretz, Israel’s leading left-wing daily. The prize is … Continue reading
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Sender Zeyv, author of ‘Every Man A Slave,’ ‘Aleph Shin’, and the upcoming ‘Ten Lost’
Elliot Resnick writes: What would your response be to those who find too much violence in your books? "You know I try to write a little bit realistically. When you’re talking about war, there’s violence. Wars have violence, that’s the … Continue reading
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Truth and Certain Jews
Elliot Resnick writes for the Jewish Press: "Why shouldn’t they exaggerate?" he asked me, surprised that I would think otherwise. While writing a recent article I was unsure how many people had attended a certain event. I happened to mention … Continue reading
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The Orthodox Paradox
From The Jewish Press’s editorial in this week’s issue: In early 1992, reacting to alarming statistics on the occurrence of intermarriage (52% as compared to 9% in 1965), a splinter group of rabbis in the Rabbinical Council of America, who … Continue reading
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Summer Media Reading
Editor Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986) by Richard Kluger: Massive, award-winning book tells the story of the newspaper that for decades ranked … Continue reading
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A.B. Yehoshua’s Endorsement Of War Against Hezbollah
Steven Plaut writes on The Jewish Press blog: A.B. Yehoshua has long been a leading figure in Israel’s Literary Left. A great believer in Palestinian good intentions and peace through appeasement. But suddenly he writes in the YNET web site … Continue reading
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This Week’s Jewish Press
From their blog: Many years have passed since the survivors of the death camps in Auschwitz and Dachau were liberated. Many of those survivors are no longer with us. But their stories and the stories of their reunions with family … Continue reading
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If They Don’t Charge Drivers to Enter Manhattan Soon, When Will They?
Shlomo Greenwald blogs for The Jewish Press: It is just me, or does it seem like The New York Times has been running more than a handful of articles about the Orthodox Jewish community lately–from a 24-hour shul in Boro … Continue reading
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This Week’s Jewish Press
Chumi Friedman blogs: For decades college campuses have been filled with left-wing professors attempting to influence their students to follow the paths of liberalism, socialism and in some cases even communism. Over the years they have been successful and the … Continue reading
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The Jewish Press Launches A Blog
Editor Jason Maoz goes after Jewschool.com: Last week the left-wing blogger Mobius (the alias used by Dan Sieradski in his role as proprietor of the Jewschool blog) reacted with some indignation to Steven Plaut’s inaugural post on this blog. That’s … Continue reading
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