Amreeka
Amreeka, a film by Cherien Dabis (official site) about a single mother who makes her way from the West Bank to rural Illinois with her teenaged son, is now playing in New York. By the end of the...
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No Zio!
As the post-J Street news coverage and tweets came and went, I was commiserating with a friend over how out-of-touch some of us feel amongst our more radical peers. Unlike many, we have two Jewish...
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BRI NEXT NY up to same old tricks
Who do they think they are, the Rubashkins or something? This story doesn’t end, because BRI NEXT NY’s funding is still intact. Unlike every other Birthright Next program in the world, the New York...
View ArticleStudy Proves Existence of Religious Left
Apparently, by using “communal” indicators for religious involvement instead of “individual” indicators, you can find a whole lot of politically liberal, religious folks out there whose existence...
View ArticleAt Least Leave Me My History
I came across a disheartening post on mondoweiss.net this evening. Now, I don’t usually read Mondoweiss much — the thinly-veiled paranoia and Jew-hatred of their commenters being just a tad too much...
View ArticleIsrael Is Not Special
Friend of the blog and semi-frequent Jewschool commenter Yaakov shared the following piece with me, about the reactions in some quarters to the news coming out of Haiti about what an incredible job the...
View ArticleAll the little Hebrews on Jaybird Street, love to hear the Pharaoh go...
If you’re looking for a quick breather from Pesach prep, things are starting to get exciting over at Tweet the Exodus.
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Yom Yerushalayim is kind of angry
Uh oh.. I think it’s ambivalence time again. The celebrations of modern Jewish victory and renaissance never seem to pass easily these days for the sensitive. So we conquered the east side of...
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The Jews of “Glee”
A ruthless high school vocalist who will do anything to become a star, with a flighty over-dramatic moody side that gets her into constant boy trouble. A jerk of a varsity football player, whose...
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Alternative Learning & Volunteering in Israel Site Launches
A message passed along to me through the usual super-secret Jewschool spy network channels… I would like to invite you all to check out a new online Israel resource… The ALVI site serves as a resource...
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