Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Sharon Stone Pulls a John Hagee
Pastor John Hagee landed himself in hot water for suggesting that Hurricane Katrina may have reflected God’s wrath over a planned gay pride event, that antisemitism may have its origins in Divine anger over Jewish transgressions and that God may have used the Nazis as Divine instruments to return the Jews to Zion. But Hagee…
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Life Three in Ten on Mag’s List of World’s Top Intellectuals Are M.O.T.’s
Everybody loves lists. And it’s no secret that Jews love counting Jews — particularly when said Jews are famous and/or accomplished individuals who bring nakhes to our little tribe. So I hope readers of the Bintel Blog won’t judge me too harshly upon learning that I spent a couple hours Googling the word “Jewish” alongside…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Hagee on ‘Hold,’ Tribe in Taiwan, British Jewry Booming?
SPOOKED BY SPY SCANDAL: The spying charges leveled against retired Army engineer Ben-Ami Kadish are dividing the Jewish War Veterans chapter that he once led. Meanwhile, the New Jersey octogenarian is being shunned by some of his friends and neighbors. The New York Jewish Week has the story. FOXMAN PUTS HAGEE ON ‘HOLD’: John McCain…
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Life The Jewish Newspaper That Thinks It’s Nixon
Brooklyn’s right-wing Jewish Press is soliciting reader suggestions for a new version of its “Enemies List” (its word, not mine) of journalists it doesn’t like. Among the journalists it included last time around, in its 1999 “Enemies List” of “anti-Israel journalists,” were pro-Israel writers, such as Thomas Friedman of The New York Times and the…
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Life Among the Na Nachs: Israel’s Dancing, Graffiti-Writing Hasidim
Ha’aretz explores the world of one of Israel’s most colorful subcultures: There is no escaping them. They have left their mark everywhere in Israel, in the form of a cryptic mantra painted in bold Hebrew lettering on security fences, sleek skyscrapers, graveyard walls, freeway billboards and sheer mountain cliffs. Dressed in characteristic woven white skullcaps,…
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Life Memorial Day: Clarence ‘Code’ Gomberg Carries the Flag
From The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Clarence “Code” Gomberg wound slowly through rows of tombstones at Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in Hampton, a bundle of American flags under one arm and a troubling thought on his mind. “Say two years from now I can’t do this,” said Gomberg, 85, a World War II veteran from Stanton Heights. “Who’s…
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News Al Shanker and the Strike of 1968
Forty years ago this month, the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn summarily dismissed 18 white teachers and administrators. The school board’s action led to a series of citywide teacher strikes that roiled a city already on edge and strained traditional alliances — pitting liberals against labor and…
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Israel News Brits Pan Jackie Mason
Maybe organizers of the British Zionist Federation’s “Israel 60” gala didn’t make the smartest choice when they tapped Jackie Mason as one of the headliners. Indeed, one British rabbi, writing in advance of the event, called the American comedian “a terrible choice,” noting that the lofty values contained in Israel’s Declaration of Independence “are far…
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