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The News Shticker: NY’s new nerdy Jewish DJ, Katie Couric in Israel and Adolf Knitler
- According to New York magazine, “D.J. Peter Rosenberg, a self-proclaimed ‘nerdy Jewish kid’ from Chevy Chase, Maryland, will be hosting the 5 to 7 a.m. slot” on New York’s Hot 97 radio station.
- Also via NYM, Ivanka Trump has reunited with her Jewish ex.
- Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff believes he is zeroing in on Aribert Heim, the Nazi physician known as “Doctor Death.”
- The LA Times reports that the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles has teamed up with Hollywood talent agent David Lonner to organize birthrightesque trips to Israel for Tinseltown bigwigs.
- Video news site Jerusalem Online claims Iranian hackers are trying to disrupt a message on their website to the Iranian people from Conference of Presidents’ executive vice chairman Malcolm Hoenlein.
- Ha’aretz gushes over Katie Couric’s visit to Israel.
- AFP looks at Beirut’s dwindling Jewish community.
- A member of the Spinka chasidic sect, which has been under investigation for tax fraud and money laundering, has admitted to bilking the federal government out of $300,000 in taxes.
- The other Telegraph reports on the controversial exploits of British pro-knitter Rachael Matthews, which includes a series of knitting designs featuring international dictators, such as Idi Amin and Adolf Hitler.
- A pamphlet surfaced in Israel that threatens the “soldiers of the occupation army” with terrorism and death should they not leave the Middle East. Its author was not an Islamic militant, however. It was Menachem Begin, then the leader of a Jewish militant organization, addressing the British roughly 60 years ago.
- Father Robert Sirico writes thoughtfully on religion, anti-authoritarianism and liberty in The Australian.
- In Salon: “The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.”
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The News Shticker: Video Jew hangs with Hadassah, ABBA singer’s Nazi lineage, schlub to stud
- Comedians Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel have ended their five year romance, igniting the hopes of every schlubby Jewish boy on earth. Ironically, days after the couple’s split, Silverman received an Emmy nomination for a music video in which she professed to be two-timing her then-beau with actor Matt Damon (NSFW).
- The L.A. Jewish Journal’s Video Jew checks out the Hadassah convention.
- The Jewish Channel tells the story of ABBA singer Frida, who discovered in her 30’s that her estranged father was a actually a Nazi and that she was conceived as part of Hitler’s program to propagate the Aryan race.
- Mixed Multitudes recaps last week’s very Jewy episode of Showtime’s hit series Weeds.
- Morris Motamed, Iran’s only Jewish member of Parliament, speaks softly on Ahmadinejad to hard-Left webzine Counterpunch.
- Shanghai Daily examines the history of Shanghai’s Jews.
- Michael Freund questions why Israel has not done more outreach to China’s dwindling Jewish community.
- ABC news questions why so many Americans are making aliyah.
- The Chicago Tribune reports on a baffling string of Torah thefts.
- Messianic Jewish inmates in Ohio are claiming that they are being discriminated against because the state’s prison system recognizes them as Protestant, denying them costlier kosher meals.
- The Forward interviews one of its alums, Max Gross, about his new book, From Schlub to Stud: How To Embrace Your Inner Mensch and Conquer the Big City.
- Finally, via the Bintel Blog: Jews and chess, Jews and guns, and Amy Winehouse gets a hankering for kosher digs.
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The News Shticker: Reggie Jackson’s Jewish crack, Heeb’s Jewish swimsuit calendar
- Reggie Jackson makes the mistake of cracking a Jewish joke (and an A-Rod one) – on tape. And now poor Ryan Braun is expected to play Abe Foxman instead of left field.
- Heeb releases ”The Ladies of ‘69: The First-Ever Jewish Swimsuit Calendar” (as in 5769). (Someone is going to hell for this, but let’s hope its them for publishing it and not us for linking to it.) [UPDATE: JTA Managing Editor Uri Heilman says I need to loosen up, and adds: The real scandal is that Heeb only found six women – talk about an insult!]
- Israel is on the lookout for Diaspora Jews who can play soccer.
- Imagine if Ahamdinejad discovered he had Jewish roots – and embraced them.
- A Jewish school in Liverpool tells the students to leave their unhealthy lunches at home.
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The News Shticker
- boingboing issues challenge to Iran: “You suck at Photoshop.” Readers respond with their own Photoshoppery. Hilarity ensues.
- A haredi man who, in 2006, killed his three month old by throwing him against a wall, and whose arrest sparked riots in Mea Shearim and drew accusations that “the Zionists” were “blood libeling” the ultra-Orthodox community, was found guilty of manslaughter.
- The Wall Street Journal’s law blog looks at a recent Chicago court ruling which states that condominium associations that bar Jewish tenants from hanging mezuzahs on their doorposts are engaged in religious discrimination.
- A guest blogger at Feministe ponders the ethnic component of her Jewish identity, revisiting the age-old question, should Ahskenazim be considered white?
- An Australian rabbi contends that kosher eating makes you fat.
- Check out Noiz in Zion, the relatively new Israeli music blog that focuses on the Jewish state’s urban music scene, for new tracks from some of Israel’s up-and-coming hip-hop artists.
- Jewish continuity advocates take heed: An Oklahoma church has come up with a new way to get unaffiliated youth religiously engaged. Or not.
- British graffiti artist Banksy, best known to Jews and Israelis for his profound if unsettling work upon Israel’s West Bank security barrier, has been unmasked after several years of operating in full anonymity.
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- Sacha Baron Cohen has had to postpone his wedding to Australian actress Isla Fisher because she hasn’t had time to complete her Torah studies, the Mail Online reports.
- The Smoking Gun brings us more tales of Cohen’s recent filmmaking adventures.
- Chelsea soccer club owner and Jewish tycoon Roman Abramovich reportedly has bought the world’s most expensive house, a $500 million estate on the French Riviera formerly owned by Bill Gates and, more recently, Edmond Safra.
- Quentin Tarantino’s remake of the 1977 B-movie Inglorious Bastards is being hailed as an “epic, bugged-out Jewsploitation film.”
- Facebook will launch a Hebrew language version of their reputable social networking website.
- The Jewish Journal examines the way in which American Jewish youth express their Jewish identities on Facebook.
- The MJL blog digs up a faux-commercial from a 1980-something SNL episode for “Jewess Jeans.”
- Two Jewish Shanghai residents married in what was the first wedding to take place in the city’s historic synagogue in 60 years.
- “The father of an 11-year-old boy who was told that his son was not Jewish enough to be accepted at one of the [UK]’s leading Orthodox schools has lost his claim for unlawful discrimination.”
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The News Shticker: Oy vay, up, up and away
- The Lower Hudson Journal News reports on what happens when police ask a woman from Monsey, N.Y. to remove her wig.
- A Chabad rabbi is Reno offers another reason to keep Shabbos: Save on gas!
- “Oy vay, up, up and away” – it’s Rabbi Rocketpower.
- Is A-Rod drinking too much Kabbalah water?
- Marc Chagall is a big hit on Google.
- The Chicago Tribune reports on an AIDS prevention specialist who thinks Africa has something to learn from the wave of Jewish adult circumcisions during the 1990s in the former Soviet Union.
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The News Shticker: Religious “freedom” in the dock, pre- and post-Zohanism
- Louisiana has passed an “academic freedom” bill permitting school districts to promote Creationism in the classroom.
- A Texas court has upheld the right of religious organizations to engage in practices that may constitute physical and emotional abuse, even when those practices may endanger the well-being of a minor.
- A public school teacher in rural Ohio was fired for promoting Christian views in the classroom and branding crosses onto his student’s arms.
- Video has surfaced of pop singer Amy Winehouse shoving a fan during a recent performance at a rock festival in the UK.
- Contradicting earlier reports that the two were receiving “Kabbalah counseling,” the UK’s Sun reports that Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, may divorce over the singer’s involvement with the Kabbalah Center.
- Jewlicious contributor DJ Handler reminds us of a Saturday Night Live sketch in which Adam Sandler first explored the disco-loving Israeli persona that would come to be known as the Zohan.
- A religious studies professor at Virginia Tech explains what the Zohan tells us about post-Zionism and vice-versa.
- An Orthodox court in Israel has issued a ban on portable video players, such as the video iPod, claiming “their devilish distributors want nothing more than to drive the people of Israel to sin.”
- Jay Michaelson ponders whether there’s room for the Jews in Narnia.
- Jewish Currents editor Rokhl Kafrissen looks back at Nextbook’s Jews & Power event, raising qualms with the conception of Jewish “liberalism” advocated by the likes of Ruth Wisse and Leon Wieseltier.
- And finally, daaaaaamn, Ahmadinejad’s wife is smokin’! Psych!
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The News Shticker: AJL folds, Gibson gets a wedgie, and the Bronfmans take Utah
- American Jewish Life, one of the finer Jewish magazines in circulation, has folded citing economic woes. Editor-in-chief Benyamin Cohen, author of the forthcoming book My Jesus Year, will be moving on to greener pastures – and by that we truly mean “green:” Cohen will be assuming the role of editorial director at a soon-to-launch environmental news agency. We wish him much success in his new venture.
- The Guardian’s film blog takes note of the proverbial “wedgie” delivered to Mel Gibson by Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.
- Pratt’s Chabad shaliach and Up, Up and Oy Vey! author Simcha Weinstein explores the Incredible Hulk’s Jewish undertones in the Jewish Press. I wonder if he’s seen Eli Valley’s latest comic.
- Alec Baldwin dishes on “his true Jewish self” to the Jewish Channel.
- An Orthodox-run real estate agency in Brooklyn has been hit with a discrimination suit after investigators found the company engaged in “systematic” prejudice against black clientele.
- The Bronfman family will be taking over Park City, UT for a three-day conference called “Why Be Jewish” that sports an invite-only all-star guest list.
- The Vatican has responded to Jewish demands that they open the books on Pope Pius XII by insisting that the Jewish community opens up its own archives from the era. The Papacy, however, was hard pressed to name a single archive the Jews haven’t already exhausted numerous times over.
- A Lebanese-born American man accused of providing material support to Hezbollah has insisted that the judge hearing his case recuse himself because, as a Jew, he cannot possibly be impartial.
- Daily Show contributor Lewis Black’s new book Me of Little Faith explores the author’s relationship to his Jewish identity as well as his feelings on religious matters in general.
- The other Telegraph reports that Jean Sarkozy, the 21-year-old son of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, is considering converting to Judaism after his upcoming marriage.
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The News Shticker: Does NBC have a no ‘lashon hara’ zone?
- NBC’s David Gregory says no to lashon hara.
- Hamas practices/glorifies kidnapping of Israeli soldier.
- The Leader-Post reports on a Quebec rabbi who beats speeding ticket with the old ”circumcision emergency” story.
- Cartoonist Eli Valley does ”The Incredible Hulk” – at the expense of right-wing Jews.
- Messianic Jews perform in Jamaica.
- British documentary looks at the life of Chasidic ex-con.
- The NYT takes us back to when the telegraph was the wave of the future (some things never change).
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The News Shticker: “Post-racial” black haredim… on ice!
- The N.Y. Times profiles Yosef Abrahamson, the black chasidic Crown Heights teen who won an essay contest a couple of weeks ago, suggesting he may be Brooklyn’s perfect representative.
- Over at Jewschool, Y-Love takes an axe to the Times’ suggestion in the aformentioned story that John McCain, who Abrahamson supports, is a “post-racial” candidate.
- See also: My interview with Y-Love over at Jewcy.
- The Independent reports, “The Israeli military has come under renewed pressure to explain why its tank shells killed a Reuters cameraman and eight other Palestinians on a road in Gaza two months ago.”
- The N.Y. Times’ Philip Galanes tells a non-Jewish reader who joined JDate – and who still hasn’t told the guy she met on the site that she’s not a member of the tribe – to come clean.
- Former Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo is heading to Israel to perform with his band Down next month. Alarmingly, when a blogger (my sister, incidentally) pointed out the fact that Anselmo has connections to the White Nationalist movement and a history of making racist remarks, furthermore suggesting that he shouldn’t be welcomed to Israel, the show’s promoter Lior Kamali responded by threatening to “smash [her] face.” What a mentsch!
- And finally, two rich Jews make another shonde for the goyim.
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