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Is This The End Of The Jews? An Interview With Adam Mansbach

Scott Thill | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Religion, Arts, Christianity, Jews, Interviews, Hip-Hop, Judaism, Books, Entertainment News

Adam Mansbach is a dude of many hats. A hip-hop poet that can recite histories old-school and new without missing a beat, especially in his acid satire Angry Black White Boy.

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Worker Abuse At Nation's Biggest Kosher Slaughterhouse Prompts Ethics Debate

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Workers Rights, Kosher, Iowa, Slaughterhouse, Judaism, Home News

NEW YORK — Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash...

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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

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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Pluralism At It's Best: A Jew Has A Buddhist Epiphany

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Dalai Lama, Inner Life, Aspen Institute, Pluralism, Buddhism, Bu-Jew, Judaism, Jew-Bu, Living News

Last week was Aspen at its best. On Monday we got to hear King Abdullah of Jordan and a few days later I participated in a three-day symposium that featured His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spiritual Progressives, Interfaith Dialogue, Judaism, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Modernizing Islam, Saudi Arabia, Islam, Politics News

This didn't sound like the Saudi King I had come to expect from Western media. I can't remember hearing either Bush or Carter speaking like this or, for that matter, any Israeli Prime Minister including Rabin.

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When a Tombstone Reads 'Light of the World'

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Charity, Judaism LGBT Rights, Judaism, Lubavitcher Rebbe, Religious Right, Humanity, Good Deeds, Religious Humanism, The Inner Life, Faith, The Rebbe, Politics News

The Rebbe replaced religious judgment with an impassioned humanity. His message became a mantra: give charity, pray daily, offer hospitality, and love every stranger as oneself. He gave faith back its heart.

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Why I'm Not Getting Married ... Again

David Shneer | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Judaism LGBT Rights, Judaism, Academics, Partner Benefits, Civil Unions, Gay Marriage, Living News

But when asked about our plans, I recoiled at the suggestion that my husband and I should come to California to get married. "We've been married for twelve years," I say.

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Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Mars Spacecraft, Phoenix Lander, Jews, Judaism, Space, Science, Mars, Phoenix Lander Mars, Living News

If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?

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Is Carl Icahn Converting to The New Economy Church of Net Neutrality & Equal Access

Max Keiser | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Google, Www, Islam, New Economy, Carl Icahn, Judaism, Jerry Yang, Christianity, Mark Andreessan, Business News

The Father, Son and Two Holy Ghosts comprise the spiritual basis of The New Economy Church of Net Neutrality & Equal Access, set to become the biggest congregation on Earth.

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Barack Obama's Real Problem with the Jewish Vote

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Elections, Politics, John McCain, Campaigns, Obama Jewish Vote, Israel, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Judaism, Politics News

Lost in all the noise about Obama's supposed problems winning Jewish support is that he is winning this group by nearly 2-1. Obama should wish for such problems with Christian voters as well.

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The Case Against Polygamy

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Polygamy, Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Living News

About two months ago, my wife and I visited and entered the fundamentalist Mormon community of Colorado Sprigs, Arizona, the very base of imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs.

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Passover 2008: Triumphs of the Greatest Generation Give Reason for Hope in a Pretty Awful Year

Harold Pollack | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Passover, Abraham Pais, Holocaust, History, Iraq, Judaism, George W. Bush, 2008 Election, Politics News

Next Passover, we will have a new president. If President Obama, President Clinton, or President McCain is merely less disastrous than President Bush, Dayenu.

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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

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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I Want to Be a Comedian, But I'm Worried I Don't Loathe Myself Enough

Alex Remington | Posted 03.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Philip Roth, Robert De Niro, Tina Dupuy, Judaism, Stand-Up Comedy, Stand-Up, Rodney Dangerfield, Judy Carter, Marlon Brando, Lenny Bruce, Richard Lewis, Jackie Mason, Don Rickles, Henry Roth, Comedy, Comedians, Neurosis, Entertainment News

Neuroses aren't funny in themselves unless you can sell them -- no one really likes to be around people who are cripplingly neurotic, unless the social and mental pratfalls caused by their painfully miswired brain also happen to be hilarious.

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On Not Abandoning Your (or Sen. Obama's) Church

Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Obama Jeremiah Wright, Synagogue, Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Judaism, Living News

I would see it as a strength of my religious congregation -- I do see it as a strength -- that I can't predict anything about its members' politics just because they are members.

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Where Is My Brother, My Keeper?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 03.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Jihad, Islam, Gaza Strip, Judaism, Muslims, Obama Muslim, Israel, Religious Conflict, Living News

The sight of Gazans rejoicing at the cold-blooded murder of eight yeshiva students who had not hurt anyone was particularly jolting for me.

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Obama on Israel: Change We Can Believe In?

Sam Sedaei | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Anti-Semitism, Louis Farrakhan, Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan, Judaism, Nation of Islam, Barack Obama Israel, Israel, 2008 Election, Obama Israel, Barack Obama, Politics News

Some of Obama's comments reveal the biggest change he has undergone since he began his campaign: his language on Israel.

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TED 2008 / Day 2: Dave Eggers and Tutoring, Neil Turok and the next African Einstein, Karen Armstrong and the Charter for Compassion

Bruno Giussani | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Tutoring, Islam, Religion, Education, Africa, Tedconference, Christianity, Compassion, Judaism, Karenarmstrong, Daveeggers, Tedprize, Neilturok, Home News

(Unedited running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California: TED Prize session) Every year at TED, three exceptional people are award...

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Modest is the New Sexy

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Pornography, Sex Magazines, Alecia Oleyourryk, Judaism, Modesty, Campus Sex Magazines, H Bomb, Eroticism, Feminism, Sexuality, SWAY, Boink, Living News

A time to take women seriously had finally arrived. But what are we to make of wildly popular student-run sex magazines like H Bomb, Boink, and SWAY?

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A Racist Jewish Court?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Jews, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Judaism, Christopher Hitchens, Jewish Law, Living News

It is time to finally put to bed a malicious libel against Judaism that is getting increasing attention in modern media -- that Judaism will not allow for the breaking of the Sabbath to save a non-Jewish life.

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Next Time Boychick, We Take the Whole Thing

Erica Jong | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Men, Women, Vajayjay, Penis, Sexuality, Sex, Health, Oprah Winfrey, Darwin, Judaism, Circumcision, Living News

What is wrong with the chosen people? Chosen for pain? All the psychological troubles of Jewish men -- from Freud to Lenny Bernstein to Philip Roth -- must stem from the dubious ritual of circumcision.

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Chabad Messianists: Wrong, But Still Jews

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad Lubavitch, Messiah, Judaism, Messianists, Living News

The shock of losing a man of such singular distinction led some in Chabad to mistakenly lend him immortality by declaring him to be the long-awaited Messiah.

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Finding Myself in an Italian Tablecloth

Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Judaism, Holocaust Deniers, Ron Paul, Bobby Fischer Dies, Bobby Fischer Anti-Semitism, Bobby Fischer, Ron Paul Anti-Semitism, Living News

I rose from my chair and turned to my wife saying, "We have to go, love." Everyone looked up at us surprised. The Contessa asked if I was ill. I replied, "No, not ill, merely Jewish." She looked stunned.

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The Receding Hemlines of Crown Heights

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 12.17.2007 | Living

Read More: Beauty, Sexual Attraction, Judaism, Sex, Sexuality, Dating, Living News

Jewish values must be restored to religious dating. The orthodox community can no longer turn a blind eye to the growing artifice of the religious dating scene.

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Is Hanukkah Causing Global Warming?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 12.05.2007 | Living

Read More: Israel, Hanukkah, Global Warming, Judaism, Al Gore Global Warming, Climate Change, Al Gore, Chanukah, Holiday Season, Living News

Come on, people, where is the anger!?! Hanukkah is destroying our planet.

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