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Top 10 Romantic Sites in Israel
A series of Jewish rulings have been written in response to the question of whether the Jewish tradition permits the celebration of holidays such as Valentines Day. The Rama (Rabi Moshe Isserlis) who lived in Poland from 1520 to 1572, explained that there are certain criterion which should be examined in order to understand the legal implication of each festivity. Nowadays, the essence of Valentines...
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February 6, 2012 12:21 pm
60% of Cancer Deaths Can Be Stopped, according to Israel Cancer Association
United With Israel – The Israel Cancer Association marked International Cancer Day on...
February 2, 2012 3:57 pm
Ayelet Galena: A Perfect Soul, Returned
Seth and Hindy Poupko Galena honored the memory of their beloved daughter, two year old...
January 31, 2012 2:08 pm
What Are You Teaching Your Children?
There are two ways to raise your children: you either shut them down or you open them up....
January 22, 2012 3:02 pm
Our Attraction To Drama, Alcohol & Other Distractions
The Choice to Become Absent “Drama” seems to be on an all-time high. Our blinding attraction...
January 20, 2012 3:54 pm
iPads Used for Education at Day Schools
JTA - Toward the end of his life, Apple’s visionary leader, Steve Jobs, was visited...
January 6, 2012 12:31 pm
Greek Wisdom In The 21st Century
In the latest New York Review of Books, Mary Beard, a popular lecturer, blogger, and professor...
November 2, 2011 12:29 pm
Message to My Daughter Under the Wedding Canopy
Mushki, given the paucity of my experience in conducting Jewish weddings, I feared that I’d...
October 12, 2011 4:54 pm
Terminating a Pregnancy or Killing an Unborn Child?: A Moral Analysis
Pregnancy as Problem Pregnancy is the – uniquely feminine - obstacle that often hinders...
August 8, 2011 2:13 pm
Israeli Creates Cancer Detection “Game Changer”
Very rare is any news concerning breast cancer positive. No, this report does not divulge a...
August 1, 2011 1:32 am
To Wed a Daughter, to Sell a Kidney
My eldest daughter, Mushki, is engaged and will be married in a few months, God willing. I’m...
July 8, 2011 2:23 am
Milk, Meat and Parve All at the Same Eatery
The New York “outpost” of Boston’s well known Milk Street Café has opened on Wall Street. (The...
July 5, 2011 1:35 pm
The New York Times Questions Monogamy
This one was really strange. This past Sunday The New York Times did a magazine cover story...
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Sports
Jewish Jordan Big Fan of “Linsanity”
Washington Post – All I can say is I’m ashamed I didn’t think to call Tamir Goodman myself, to ask the former Jewish Jordan what he thinks about the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Goodman, of course, became the subject of an ethnic-fueled media madness during his high school career in Maryland, especially after appearing in Sports Illustrated and then flirting with the Terps. He recently told ESPN 600 in El Paso that he had 700 media requests in the first week [...]
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Arts and Culture Book Reviews
Race, Religion and DNA
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA By Jeff Wheelwright W.W. Norton and Company, 260 pages, $26.95 “From breast cancer to secret Jewish rituals, hidden links signify unlikely kinships in this meditative exploration of the science of racial connectedness,” read Publisher’s Weekly’s review of “The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess”. A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG., which is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew [...]
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Arts and Culture Personalities
High End Jewish Whisky Society Bottling Rare Single Cask Malts
If you’re an avid whisky drinker, you might want a membership. Joshua Hatton and Jason Johnstone-Yellin, well known whisky connoisseurs, have partnered with Seth Klaskin, to form the Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society. “Joshua and I started as whisky bloggers. He actually had the name Jewish Single Malt Single Whisky. As bloggers, we started to build a lot of contacts within the whisky industry and we started to build these relationships. Neither one of us gotten into blogging thinking we [...]
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Arts and Culture Blogs
A Sneak Peek at “Footnote,” Israel’s Oscar Nominee
In his latest film, Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar has created a drama of personal controversy. He explores spirit, resilience and responsibility. “Footnote” tells the story of a father, embittered by his life and angered by the success of his son. That son, though publicly applauded, is in turn challenged by the not-fully-formed third generation—his son. The story of “Footnote” is universal, told here within the confines of a single family. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi), [...]
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Music
Rock and Roll Feminism Straight Out of Brooklyn
Tablet – The brainchild of former Titus Andronicus guitarist Amy Klein, Permanent Wave is three things in one: a “combination between activism, a show-booking entity, and a production company,” says Sophie Weiner, who’s involved in all three. A feminist rock collective, or call it what you want; its bands are not the kinds of acts that you are likely to see at the Grammys anytime soon. Here’s what a Permanent Wave-sponsored show looks like in practice: A loud electro thump [...]
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Arts and Culture
England’s Other Jubilee: 60th Jewish Book Week
Spectator – There are two notable diamond jubilees this year: the obvious one and Jewish Book Week (JWB). The festival opened last weekend and will run at Kings Place in London until Sunday evening, when David Aaronovitch and Umberto Eco will end proceedings with a discussion about the latter’s novel, The Prague Cemetary. JBW is a celebration of literature; but, as one might expect, Jewish identity is central to most events. Yesterday afternoon saw Dennis Marks and Michael Hofmann debating [...]
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Blogs Book Reviews
Thinking, Fast and Slow – A Must Read
I must recommend Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. I was won over at the very start when he describes his conversations with his late friend and collaborator Amos Tversky in the Rimon restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, just off Ben Yehudah. Ah, the memories flooded back of the many times I sat there for a quick lunch. But unfortunately it was one year before them; otherwise I might have become a wiser man. The Israeli Nobel Prize winner for [...]
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Book Reviews
Judy Blume’s “Most Autobiographical Character”
Tablet – Sixty-five years ago this winter, in 1947, a fifth-grade girl found she was suddenly the new kid in school, longing for home and for people she knew. She had moved temporarily from the suburbs of New Jersey to the shores of Miami Beach with her mother, brother, and grandmother, who had lost relatives in Dachau just a few years before. Her father, a dentist, stayed behind in Elizabeth for work. His plan was to fly south for special [...]
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