Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life In Defense of… Francisco Franco?
Aharon Lapid has penned a strange article on the Spanish Civil War and fascist leader Francisco Franco for the right-wing Orthodox weekly The Jewish Press. I’ll readily agree to the following points: The Spanish Civil War was not an entirely black-and-white affair. The Republican cause was sullied by violence and hijacked by Stalinists. The oft-romanticized…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Exodus Take Two, Black Yiddish Pioneer, Nazis Against Cinema
FINKELSTEIN’S BROOKLYN EXILE: The New York Jewish Week catches up with Hezbollah-boosting ex-academic Norman Finkelstein, who, since losing his high-profile tenure battle at Chicago’s DePaul University, has been holed up in his late father’s Brooklyn apartment (that is, when he’s not visiting with his favorite Lebanese armed extremist group). But while the author of “The…
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Life Man Beheads Wax Hitler
Reuters reports: A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin’s Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said. Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the figure before ripping off the head in protest at the exhibit,…
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Culture Happy Fourth of July (Muppets-Style)
Oh, those subversive Muppets. For a more earnest take on the significance of this great day in American history, here’s a recent Forward editorial on the topic.
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Life Lieberman’s Plunge
It seems that Senator Joseph Lieberman’s political metamorphosis into a super-surrogate for the presidential candidacy of John McCain isn’t playing too well in his home state of Connecticut. A new poll from Quinnipiac University found that Lieberman’s approval rating among his constituents has dropped to 45%, with 43% expressing disapproval for his performance. That’s down…
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Life Hezbollah’s ‘Cannibalistic Game’
Ha’aretz’s Yoel Marcus on the prisoner deal: In the wake of this miserable affair, Israel must wake up to the sad fact that 60 years after its establishment, we are looking at a crueler, more cannibalistic, less humane Middle East. During World War II, even Nazi Germany abided by the conventions governing prisoners of war,…
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Life Lieberman Jeered, Kos Cheered — at the DLC, of All Places
Markos Moulitsas, leader of the Daily Kos crew and field marshal of the left-wing “net-roots” movement, recently appeared at a gathering of his least-favorite faction of his own political party. Speaking at the “National Conversation” hosted by the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, Moulitsas offered an unkind (and unprintable) word for former DLC chairman Joseph Lieberman….
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Life Hezbollah’s Hero
Hezbollah will be celebrating the release of Samir Kuntar, who will be swapped, along with four other Lebanese prisoners, in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, whose uncertain fates had tormented Israel and Jews around the world. While Israelis will be in mourning for the two of soldiers…
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