http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/ en rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-07-03T05:24:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/03/1006308/the-jacksons-sing-yiddish Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/03/1006308/the-jacksons-sing-yiddish#When:05:24:00Z No, really. 2009-07-03T05:24:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006307/sarah-netanyahu-get-thee-to-scheinkin Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006307/sarah-netanyahu-get-thee-to-scheinkin#When:22:43:00Z   Asma al-Assad, Syria’s first lady, on Sky TV, not saying a whole lot, scoring major  hasbara points nonetheless. 2009-07-02T22:43:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006296/assalamu-alaikum Ben Harris http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006296/assalamu-alaikum#When:15:47:01Z Newsweek reports on the efforts of Turkish Jews to combat a rising tide of prejudice and reach out to their Muslim neighbors.  2009-07-02T15:47:01-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006295/israeli-hotels-sign-modesty-code Ben Harris http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006295/israeli-hotels-sign-modesty-code#When:15:34:00Z You have to wonder what they’ll come up with next. YNet is reporting that some 20 hotels catering to fervently Orthodox vacationers have signed a "modesty code" commiting them to unplug TVs and bloc views of the pool from rooms.  2009-07-02T15:34:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006294/unhip-commentary Ben Harris http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/02/1006294/unhip-commentary#When:14:51:00Z D.G. Myers says Jewish hipsters are a specter haunting American Jewry, but he’s just picking on an easy—and marginal—target, JTA’s Ben Harris writes. Featured 2009-07-02T14:51:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/01/1006278/michael-jacksons-jewish-saudi-arabian-widow Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/01/1006278/michael-jacksons-jewish-saudi-arabian-widow#When:20:27:00Z Keeping tabs on the blog postings blog postings by Nona Paris Lola Ankhesenamun Jackson, who claims to be a) Michael Jackson’s widow and the real mother to his children, b) the daughter of a Saudi Prince, and c) Jewish. 2009-07-01T20:27:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/01/1006268/finland-loves-israel-in-europe-freund Uriel Heilman http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/01/1006268/finland-loves-israel-in-europe-freund#When:15:18:00Z Jerusalem Post columnist Michael Freund writes about one country in Europe where the love for Israel runs freely: Finland. 2009-07-01T15:18:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/01/1006260/is-facebook-a-zionist-plot Ami Eden http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/01/1006260/is-facebook-a-zionist-plot#When:13:33:00Z A Palestinian American comedian wants to know. 2009-07-01T13:33:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/06/30/1006251/jo-amar-acclaimed-sephardic-singer-dies Ben Harris http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/06/30/1006251/jo-amar-acclaimed-sephardic-singer-dies#When:21:02:00Z Moroccan singer Jo Amar passed away last week in New York at 79. Amar was an Israeli icon who emigrated to the Jewish state in the 1950s and is credited with being a pioneer of the style of music known today as mizrahi. Featured 2009-06-30T21:02:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/06/30/1006239/designing-the-bible Ben Harris http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/06/30/1006239/designing-the-bible#When:18:06:00Z In April, I wrote about two emerging challenges to the dominance of the ArtScroll siddur among the American Orthodox public. One of those challenges, the first English translation of the popular Israeli siddur pubilshed by Koren, boasts a fresh translation from the English chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, and Koren’s legendary artistic sensibility.  2009-06-30T18:06:00-05:00