Jewish Culture

Nosh On This: The Jewish Vote

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2004 Election, 2000 Election, Jews, Video, Election Protection, Steven Spielberg, Katherine Harris, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Online Video, Voting Problems, Jewish Voters, Obama Jewish Voters, Politics News
Andrea Chalupa

Video the Vote will dispatch a trained volunteer to capture those evil demons that keep popping up in polling places, especially the ones they got down in Florida and Ohio.

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Time For Hannity and Friends to Take a Xanax

Larry Gellman | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Mark Levin, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Terrorism, Barack Obama Reverend Wright, Hugh Hewitt, Jewish Culture, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Yigal Amir, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Talk Radio, Yitzhak Rabin, Conservatives, Dennis Prager, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Conservative Talk Radio, Michael Savage, Fox News, Hate Speech, John McCain Sean Hannity, Israel, Presidential Debates, Politics News
Larry Gellman

It's over. The American people have spoken. If this election was a basketball game, it would be time to clear the benches and let the subs play out the clock.

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A Makeshift Synagogue and Me

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 10.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Rosh Hashana, Atheism, God, High Holidays, Shul, Religion Culture, Camp Eisner, Jewish Culture, Temple, Judaism, Living News
Hanna Ingber Win

Sundown Wednesday was Yom Kippur. I don't think I believe in God, and yet, my family, Jewish summer camp -- I don't know what they did to me, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for my religion.

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Less Outrage -- More Repentance Please

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, John McCain, Greenwich, Judaism, Jewish Culture, News Media, Bailout, Democratic Party, Catholic Church, Religion, Aig, Synagogue, Henry Paulson, Religion and Politics, Warren Buffett, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Jewish Voters, Politics News
Larry Gellman

It was appropriate that outrage be expressed during those hearings, but the criticism should have been directed from Paulson to the members of Congress.

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Rabbis, Activists Fight to Make Iowa Workers' Conditions "Kosher"

Rabbi Jennie Rosenn | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Judaism, Kosher Redifinition, Agriprocessors Conditions, Jewish Activists, Jewish Culture, Kosher Meat, Rabbi, Politics News
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn

A series of revelations about egregious conditions at the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the United State has inspired Jewish social justice activists to call for a redefinition what it means to be kosher.

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Combating Jewish Materialism -- A Jewish Peace Corps

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Community Service, Philanthropy, Jews, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Israel, Birthright, Peace Corps, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The Jewish community needs a new organization, modeled on Birthright, whose purpose it will be to inspire young Jewish volunteers to go around the world and help local rabbis and communal professionals for a two-week period.

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A Lesson About Pride Jews Can Learn From Obama

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Obama Ethnicity, Jewish Culture, Jews, Names, Anglicizing Names, Barack Obama Jews, Barry Barack Obama, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

By changing his name from Barry, Barack Obama has now forever eliminated the excuse for American Jews, not to mention other minorities, to bury their ethnicity by Anglicizing their names.

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Barack Obama - The First Jewish Presidential Nominee

Adam Hanft | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, First Jewish President, Jewish President, Barack Obama Jews, Jewish Culture, Jewish Voters, Barack Obama, Politics News
Adam Hanft

Jews have been a great American catalysts for change, not just in the way we fought for it, but in the way that our successes here birthed the narrative imagination that led to Obama's victory.

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The Israel I Was Fighting For

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Israeli-Arabs, Jewish Culture, Statehood, Israel, Nations, Diversity, Israelis Palestinians, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Sixty years ago, when I was fighting for Israel during its war of independence, I won a lot of respect. Now many of my liberal colleagues, including Jewish ones, raise their eyebrows.

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The Auschwitz Pilgrim?

Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Jewish Culture, Auschwitz, Travel, Holocaust, Israel, Poland, Traveling, Living News
Alison Stein Wellner

The "March Of The Living" draws about 8,000 participants in total, covers the two miles that lie between what was the main concentration camp at Auschwitz and Birkenau.

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Nice Jewish Girl Attends Jum'a Before Shabbat

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Islam, Jewish Culture, Religion, Muslim, Judaism, Faith, Jewish, Living News
Leora Tanenbaum

In an effort to improve Muslim-Jewish relations in NYC, the city's most prominent mosque and the flagship seminary of the Jewish Conservative movement have reached out to one another.

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A Rabbi in the Mosque

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Muslims, Islam, Jewish Culture, Jews, Denver Mosque, Israel, Politics News
Rabbi Michael Lerner

Muslims joined with Christians and Jews to witness a historic event: the first time a Jew had been invited to speak at the Denver Mosque.

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Richard Dawkins' Jewish Question

David Berreby | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jewish Upbringing, Religion, Secularism, Secular, Jewish Culture, Secular Identity, Jewish Lobby, Jewish Religion, Richard Dawkins, Politics News
David Berreby

By casually echoing the rhetoric of anti-Semites, Dawkins has made a fool of himself and, by extension, those of us for whom he claims to speak.

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Four Priorities for the Next President

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Dinner Time, Public School Dress Codes, Jewish Culture, The Next President, Religion in Politics, Faith-Based Initiatives, 2008 Election, Marital Counseling, Politics News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

A lottery should be done of families who abide by the national family dinner time to meet with the president once a month so that the institution becomes more and more ingrained into the national psyche.

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America's Least Wanted

Eric Alterman | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jews, John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Goldberg, Stephen Walt, Neocons, Marty Peretz, Jewish Culture, American Jewish Committee, New Republic, Politics News
Eric Alterman

Is there any group in all of human history with a greater talent for their own victimization than American neocons? On the cover of The New Republic, ...

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Germany -- and the American Zeitgeist

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jewish Culture, Holocaust, Jews in Germany, Nazi Legacy, Germany, Politics News
Joan Z. Shore

It would not take much to find a target now for our anger and frustration: The immigrants, the gays, the people on welfare, the liberals, the Jews.

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Columbia Disgraces Itself with the Iranian Terrorist in Chief

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jewish Culture, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Columbia University, Ahmadinejad's Visit to New York, War With Iran, Politics News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

It is time for the world to boldly declare the clarion call of a new generation: no tolerance for intolerance.

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My Media Fast

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.23.2007 | Media

Read More: Jewish Culture, Avoiding Media, Tuning Out Media, Off the Grid, TV Turnoff, Media News
Marty Kaplan

I spent 24 hours this past weekend off the grid -- no television, no print, no online, no news. It was a Jewish thing, not a Walden thing.

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Why My Shrink Needs A Shrink

Kate Schmier | Posted 09.10.2007 | Living

Read More: Jewish Culture, Therapy, Helping Neurotics, Living News
Kate Schmier

Was I hearing things or did my shrink just tell me that she wanted to set me up with her son? I sighed with relief. I guessed this meant I wasn't crazy after all.

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Bush Gives Shout-Out To Jews A Three Days Early

Chris Case | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: White House Greetings, Jewish Culture, Rosh Hasana, George W. Bush, Politics News
Chris Case

On Sunday night, Bush issued a statement wishing greetings to those celebrating the Jewish New Year. The only problem is that the Jewish New Year starts Wednesday at sundown.

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One Jew's Views

Michael Simmons | Posted 09.06.2007 | Living

Read More: Jews, Jewish Culture, Self-Diagnosed Illness, Dying, Kvetch, Self-Hating Jew, Living News
Michael Simmons

An inordinate number of Jews are prone to self-diagnoses. Some refer to us by using the Yiddish word "kvetch," which translates as "a whining complainer."

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