Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Yid Vid: Alec Baldwin’s Favorite Jewish Holiday Is…
The bad news is that you have to wait until the end of the video to find out. The good news is that, in the meantime, you get to learn about famed New York ess-ery Barney Greengrass — “the Sturgeon King” — which is celebrating its 100th birthday. A few years back, my friend Victor…
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Film & TV Jeffrey Goldberg and Michael Chabon on Sandler’s ‘Zohan’: ‘The Worst Movie’ But Quite Enjoyable
Not to be too self-referential (as if there’s any such thing), but I’d just like to point out that in my recent paean to Adam Sandler’s (goyish) wit and (Jewish) wisdom, I rendered the following verdict: “‘You Don’t Mess With the Zohan’ is a stupid movie; I couldn’t stop laughing.” Now, I’m happy to report,…
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Life Hamas Hypocrisy
We’re less than a week into the supposedly six-month-long Gaza “truce” that Israel negotiated with Hamas, and already Palestinian militants are making a mockery of it. Palestinians in Gaza fired a mortar shell into an empty area just before midnight last night. And then earlier today four rockets were fired into southern Israel, lightly wounding…
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Life The Forward Wins Seven Rockower Awards
The Forward has been awarded seven Rockower Awards by the American Jewish Press Association, including four first-place prizes. The Forward won first place in “Excellence in News Reporting” for Nathaniel Popper’s “Divorce Bill Leaves Feminists and Ultra-Orthodox in Bed Together,” in “Arts and Criticism News and Features” for Alana Newhouse’s “Jewish Mother, R.I.P.” and in…
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Culture The Commentator: Is Adam Sandler Our Greatest Jewish Mind?
Is Adam Sandler the most important living Jewish commentator? Believe it or not, this actually isn’t the first time those words have appeared in print. In fact, the question was posed way back in 1999, on the cover of the national Jewish student magazine New Voices. At the time, I must confess, I thought it…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Thanking David Duke, Giants’ ‘Rabbi’ Speaks, Indigenous for Israel
HAGEE THE ‘STALKING HORSE’: The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent’s Jonathan Tobin argues that critics of John Hagee are using the controversial pastor as “a stand-in for the smear that the tens of millions of Christian conservatives who love Israel are closeted Jew-haters.” FLIP-FLOP FOR FREE SPEECH: The proprietor of D.C. literary hub Politics and Prose is…
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Life The Ethiopian Divide on the Falash Mura
The contentious debate over the immigration to Israel of the Falash Mura — Ethiopians who claim descent from Jewish converts to Christianity — is pitting the two Ethiopian members of Israel’s parliament against each other. Even as Israel’s government has declared an end to the mass-immigration of the Falash Mura, Ha’aretz reports that Mazor Bahyna…
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Life Yid Vid: Colbert on Israel’s New National Bird
For an even more learned take on the hoopoe, see Jonathan Rosen’s op-ed in The New York Times. Hat tip: Jewlicious
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