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JewSchool
This! Is! SIIINAAAAIIIIIIIII!!!!!
So. Yeah. Thanks to JDub Records’ blog for pointing out that someone has got it in their heads to make an epic biopic about Moses–with green screen technology all around. So says the post at JDub: According to 20th Century Fox, “The Moses story will be told using the same green screen strategy as ‘300,’ so Read more »
Blog From Battery Place
Daniel Gwirtzman's "Tribe" Comes to the Museum
Next Wednesday, the Museum, in conjunction with Nextbook’s Jewish Body Week, will present a world premiere work from the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Tribe. Seen as an Editor’s Pick in this week’s New York Magazine, the piece finds inspiration in Judaism and explores the human body as a source of reflection, strength, humor, and celebration. The Company has received critical acclaim throughout New York and the country. The Village Voice said “It’s great to see imaginative dancing to Read more »
Jewlicious
when i say mazel, you say tov!
At the end of spring, my family and I attended the last of the Long Island Bar Mitzvahs. Not to say that there will no longer be Bar Mitzvahs on Long Island, but it was the youngest cousin’s Bar Mitzvah and there are no longer any Long Island Bar Mitzvahs that I need to attend. Read more »
J Street's Word on the Street
JStreetPAC Raises over $30,000 for Rep. Steve Cohen
JStreetPAC is proud to announce that we have raised over $30,000 for the reelection campaign of Congressman Steve Cohen, who has consistently demonstrated his pro-Israel, pro-peace credentials in Congress.Read more »
Mondoweiss
Bromwich: Where did Cheneys get the idea that ‘dominance’ is the goal of foreign policy?
Here is something curious: evidence, via Liz Cheney, that the very idea of the U.S. as merely a major nation in the world of nations is considered by the Cheneys to be craven, weak, indeed pusillanimous to the point of effeminacy. The occasion was local: a routine charge against President Obama that he is more a Read more »
Elder of Ziyon
UNHRC will meet on Goldstone this week
From Reuters:The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an extraordinary meeting this week on the occupied Palestinian territories, providing another chance for Israel's critics to discuss a Gaza war crimes report."The holding of the special session is at the request of Palestine," the United Nations said in a statement circulated on Tuesday in Geneva, where the 47-member body is based.AP helpfully adds:It will be the sixth time that Israel has been the subject of a special session by the Geneva-based Read more »
JDub Records' Blog
Wandering Jew!
JTA’s Ben Harris is a self declared Wandering Jew and he will wander wherever you tell him to! The fine folks over at JTA are hosting the Wandering Jew contest and are offering a fancy new ipod nano loaded with JDub music to the winner. Here’s a blurb about the contest, “Seen any unique Jewish communities during Read more »
My Urban Kvetch
L.A.nniversary Week: Weather You're Ready Or Not
If it's hard for you to believe, imagine how hard it is for me to fully embrace that I've been in LA nearly a year. This week (Friday, actually), is the first anniversary of my migration away from my beloved New York and to a new, distant shore. I came in search of change - of routine, climate, worklife, social community, spiritual observance, self - and found it in abundance....Read more »
Mondoweiss
‘The mistake of the bright is worth 1,000 mistakes’
I am surprised, to say the least, by your posting :"Nobel Prize all about Israel..". Is "trying to effect history" to be equated with making history? Obama tried to "effect history" when he asked Israel to freeze Read more »
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