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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Hanukkah Lights At LA Live
Kevin Roderick reports on last night’s Lakers victory: "A pre-game rock band from Chabad marked the end of Hanukkah on the plaza at L.A. Live. By game’s end, all evidence of Jewishness was gone and recorded Christmas music blared while … Continue reading
Posted in Chabad
Tagged christmas music, hanukkah lights, kevin roderick, menorah, robert downey, robert downey jr
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New Indian Chabad House Seeks Out Gentiles
Maybe Judaism has a mission to the world? Dennis Prager will approve. From the Jerusalem Post: Gentiles will be the focus of a new Chabad House to be opened in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh state. Inspired to increase its activities … Continue reading
Posted in Chabad
Tagged Dennis Prager, himachal pradesh, jerusalem post, rabbi menachem, seven noahide laws, tibetan government in exile
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Economy Drives Shul Merges
There’s no longer a significant difference between Reform and Conservative Judaism so why not merge these two movements as well? Attorney Anita Susan Brenner writes: This week, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the leader of the Union for Reform Judaism, suggested that … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, Synagogue
Tagged Conservative Judaism, palm springs california, reform synagogues, temple isaiah, union for reform judaism, yiddish speakers
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Behind Caroline Kennedy
From New York magazine: Today the Observer has some suggestions of why the New York Post may have endorsed the inexperienced Caroline Kennedy so quickly and giddily for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Was it because: • She helped get News … Continue reading
Posted in Caroline Kennedy, Journalism
Tagged andrew cuomo, Caroline Kennedy, collective eyes, Hillary Clinton, irish drunks, jfk jr, kennedy cuomo divorce, liberal beliefs, rupert murdoch, senate seat, william kennedy smith
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Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
This is a great book. Here’s my favorite story so far: ‘"We’ve got this girl here in the company – blonde, she’s hot," the captain said. "This is when we were up in Mosul. We had to search all these … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
Tagged blond hair, blond woman, blonde girl, bradleys, dexter filkins, savages
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