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May 2008

• Jews and Power
• Jon Voight on his commitment to Jews and Israel
• More from Agriprocessors
• The rabbi strikes back
• The Wikipedia wars, cont’d
• Celebrating 60 years of American-Israeli friendship
• Ghostville
• Reporting from Postville
• Hasbara 2.0 (beware of bugs)
• Ruth Messinger on the Jews, China & Darfur
• Stuart Eizenstat on Israel’s resitution problem
• An even briefer interview with Alan Dershowitz
• A brief interview with Nathan Englander
• Greetings from the President’s conference
• Feds raid the shochet, but the slaughter continues
• Bring it On
• Bush’s Legacy
• Hanging with Bush in Israel
• Keep your money
• Two-state solution, RIP
• Now or later
• Hollywood, Heeb-style
• Getting fired over treif chicken
• Tailing Talansky
• The prime minister’s defeat
• Justice @ 60
• Yom Haatzmaut in NYC
• A revised prayer for Israel
• Cincinnati is right on time (if not ahead)!
• Goldberg on Israel
• Progressive Jews get ‘Righteously Indignant’ at Boston conference
• The News Shticker: Bar Rafaeli wants you!
• Hamas puppets mark Israel 60
• RCA speaks out against attempts to nullify conversions
• Strangers at Tribeca
• The g-word was so 2007 — now it’s the b-word
• Yom HaShoah roundup
• Hamas-run TV: The Holocaust was an Israeli plot
• Israeli education crisis!
• Making the case for a ceasefire

April 2008

• Don’t throw away your NYT!
• News shticker
• Stewart talks Hamas with Jimmy Carter
• ADL chimes in on Stein’s anti-evolution film
• No peace at Columbia
• Meanwhile, at the U.N. anti-racism prep conference in Geneva
• Prepping in Geneva for U.N. “anti-racism” conference
• The man behind the spy charges
• Babs: I’m not snubbing Bush
• Jew vs. Jew in debate over sex-change operations for children
• Al-Qaida leader: Don’t give Israel credit for 9/11
• The pope and a rabbi end up on the Daily Show…
• Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film raises hackles
• Unpeaceful end
• Mike’s Place
• The News Shticker: Does a snake have legs?
• Not everyone in Israel gave Carter the cold shoulder
• Debate on Israel prayer moves to blogs
• Anna Nicole found comfort in Jewish ritual
• Carter and Hamas
• Kosher for Passover
• Senate Dems meet with Jewish leaders
• The almost Olympic boycott of 1936
• Old matzah, new matzah
• Remembering Liviu Librescu
• Miller v. Miller on Yasser Arafat: Roper or Ringo?
• Whatever happened to that note that I put in the Western Wall?
• J Street press conference audio
• Shatner does Exodus
• Boot camp for mohels
• What I learned at mosque
• Sh’ma tackles the neocons
• Jews fit to print
• Reactions to Jimmy Carter’s planned Hamas meeting
• Dave Marash: Why I quite Al Jazeera English
• Former terrorist defends his bad name
• The Matzah taste test
• The Forward and FrontPageMagazine play (settlement) freeze dance
• Sheldon Adelson: White knight or white elephant?
• Running on Matzah
• The Economist on Israel at 60: She’s showing wrinkles
• JTA’s Ron Kampeas goes 1-on-1 with Barack Obama
• Shrek, Haredi style
• Peres: The Eternal Optimist
• Does The Fly do Passover?
• Hagee answers Yoffie
• AJC commercial rejected
• Aiming for the NBA from the JCC
• Would you send your parents on a Birthright trip?
• Martha Stewart’s Seder tips
• The most biased cable news host in the world…
• ‘High School Musical’ coming to Israel
• The Burg speaks: Zionism is futile
• Record deal for Youngstown’s Jewish rapper
• Hot Dog
• “Cyclical Rituals (Part I): Spring”
• Parchment chic
• Play Ballah
• Hamas behaving badly

March 2008

• Film Fight
• Labor of love: Israel
• The other Frank girl
• Ha’aretz: Israeli government turns to YouTube
• J Street Project: Doves launch AIPAC alternative
• Elders in Zion
• ZBT is Back
• Michael Drake in a ZOA constrictor
• Anatevka, Wisconsin
• Praying for unity
• If you love Jews, then you need to convert them
• Everything Jeremiah Wright knows about being black, he learned from Jews in high school
• Debating campus strategy
• O.U. explains why its failure to vote against two-state resolution was kosher
• The News Shticker
• The News Shticker: Jewno, Britney & Mel
• The Israeli television invasion
• One more incentive for peace: A Rami Kashou studio in Ramallah
• An old newspaper and a new TV channel explore the Jewish-Rastafarian connection
• Send in your videos (but only if you married out)
• Goodbye (kosher) Columbus
• I want my Holocaust awareness ad
• David Landau: Did you ever think the press may have a point about Israel?
• Hey, Crystal, you’re no Gary Rosenblatt
• The Luck of the Irish Jews
• Madonna quotes some Talmud
• The Palestinian case for dissolving the P.A.
• Jews are junkies too
• Intermarriage through an Israeli television lens
• An Israeli terrorism tour
• Hitler the architect
• Being a white nationalist terrorist is so last decade
• Taking the temperature of Mercaz Harav
• Fed Up
• They didn’t like Private Benjamin in Scotland?
• What did they expect? A Star of David?
• Boteach: Why won’t Muslims speak out?
• Speaking out on Breaking the Silence
• Where Haredi women go to look good and keep it modest
• Jews Fit to Print: Rough welcome for Shoah survivors, Nintendo Nazis, Tovah in a nutshell, no shabbos shopping in Great Neck, black hats, Holocaust fraud, rabbinic obit
• Reactions to yeshiva shooting
• Natalie Portman on pre-Nazi Germany, Judaism, being a hot knish and U.S.-Israel relations
• The great Tam Tam shortage
• Yossi Klein Halevi: No more feeling guilty
• Welcome back, Condi
• So you say you’re a Jew … Prove it!

February 2008

• Arnie Eisen to Conservative rabbis: Yes we can
• Ha’aretz: Israel on the edge
• My (Israeli commando) bodyguard
• Commentary’s way of saying thank you…
• Photo of Anne Frank’s ‘true love’ surfaces
• From skinhead to skullcap
• Holocaust beats Israel
• The Academy Award for Chutzpah goes to … the Academy
• Frank Bruni misses the real shandah!
• Silow-Carroll: Can you be a little bit kosher?
• JPOST: It’s not clear if we can all just get along
• Rosenblatt: Stopping Israel’s brain drain
• Tobin: It’s Iran, stupid
• AJC to Cable networks: Say no to immigrant bashers
• The political cartoon Hamas doesn’t want Gazans to see
• JPOST editor on U.S. backtracking on NIE: Too little, too late
• Women in uniform
• Imad Mughniyah: A worthwhile target
• Dr. House vs. Chabad
• In Seattle, the V-word is cool for shul, but not the local paper
• Bad Bunny
• Coen Bros. to direct adaptation of Chabon’s ‘Policemen’s Union’
• Iranian democracy
• Beware: The Keffiyeh
• Bush the Explorer
• Ann Coulter lied to me
• ‘Ink’ star sends hateful kiss-off to Jewish boss
• Israel: Looking good or bad at 60?
• Winehouse snags top honors at Grammys
• Jackie Oy!
• Winehouse denied US visa
• Race, gender and Nebraska
• The frumka: Orthodox women find religion
• Dobbs calls ADL a joke, Olbermann calls Dobbs worst person in the world
• MSU’s best little hate house in town
• Funny, Epifania doesn’t sound Jewish
• Aguilera adds unusual touch to circumcision ritual
• Lou Dobbs calls ADL “a joke”
• Winehouse considers Chanukah album, rejects association with Jewish community
• Rudy’s next step?

January 2008

• My God can kick your God’s butt
• Yes, Anthony Lake is Jewish (Now)
• Winograd: Olmert tried his best
• Full moon over the West Bank
• Hitler: A Cowboys fan
• Obama addresses Jewish concerns
• Wherever we stand, we stand with Springfield
• Finding the Heath Ledger angle
• Entering the Covenant: Aguilera baby gets bris
• Arlen’s staying out for now
• Lieberman Won’t Join McCain Administration
• Why McCain?
• Interview with Senator Norm Coleman
• John McCain’s View of Heaven
• Rabbis: You JDating anyone?
• Follow the Money
• Interview with Rudy Giuliani
• The Daily Show on Bush in Israel
• Traveling with Bush
• Selling pizza to the candidates
• Peres to Bush: Let’s dance
• Knicks: Riding Hillary’s coattails
• Brian Williams: Hillary’s so verklempt
• New Hampshire memories
• Hanging with Ron Paul people in N.H.
• Primary day in New Hampshire
• The Chabad race in N.H.
• Dreaming of Condi
• Our man in New Hampshire

December 2007

• Jew like me
• Matzo balling with Harris & Berkman
• Mike Huckabee — Marrano
• What to make of McCain’s Joe-mentum
• Adam Sandler does ‘Munich,’ pop singer does ‘Hava Nagila’
• The ‘Six Point’ plan for Jewish votes
• Reform Politics
• Some of my best friends are named Schneider
• Huckabee: Create a Palestinian state — in Egypt or Saudi Arabia
• Jews: We favor Rudy & Hillary
• Blaming Condi
• Hitchens doesn’t light the menorah
• Will Chavez’s defeat stem emigration of Venezuela’s Jews?

November 2007

• The Bible’s tough talk
• If only Bush knew
• Siegel Speaks: Election Apathy in Russia
• Our man in D.C.
• Olmert to U.S. Jews: Israel will decide on Jerusalem
• Susser Speaks: Annapolis and the Day After
• Y-Love + DJ Handler + Idan Raichel + Matisyahu
• Dinner with ZOA: Two Morts, a Weiner, Bibi Sr., a Berkley hawk
• Letter: Don’t forget Jerusalem
• Wasabi with your gefilte fish?
• “Great, you got a YouTube photo of me.”
• Interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
• Are the young too selfish?
• Pac-Man v. Dry Bones
• Enabling the Next Big Jewish Idea
• LGBT outreach at the G.A.
• Arriving late (that’s more than I can say for Livni)
• Photos from first plenary
• More from the floor
• Keynote truckin’ along
• A bonanza of plastic whatnot
• Live blogging the GA
• Breaking down the Forward 50
• You can’t even read the articles
• Iran: To talk or not to talk
• Do I have a NYT Mag problem?
• Larry King: Jerry who?
• Foxman & Sharpton
• Chabad: Reform bar mitzvahs are a racket
• Hey, Chabon: En garde

October 2007

• Edwards’ double talk on Iran
• Jewish Dems go Coulter on Huckabee
• ‘Obama Girl’ takes on Coulter
• Does Maxim have a Jewess problem?
• Does the NYT Magazine have a Jewish problem?
• Hadassah: A better world, one foreskin at a time
• Youkilis!!!
• Sorry, Mr. Bishop
• What if Noah Feldman were a SY?
• Peres gets taste of his own medicine
• Foxman in a Tutu
• Does Coulter hurt GOP?
• Turkey will greet us with flowers
• Coulter follies
• Columbia’s next speaker
• smart money
• You say censoring, I say defaming
• Heeb’s obsession
• Ahmadinejad in the boys room
• Too many Jews at Nuremberg

September 2007

• Mearsheimer-Walt: Truth in advertising?
• He spoke at Columbia