Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Breaking News Did Bill De Blasio Win by ‘Meh’ Margin With Jews?
(JTA) — Bill De Blasio was elected New York City’s mayor by a landslide. He appears to have won the Jewish vote, too, but perhaps just barely. An exit poll suggests that New York Jews, as a group, are no longer the pillar of liberalism that they once were. Whereas De Blasio took 73 percent of…
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The Schmooze Breslow Flops, Rosenthal Stars as Cardinals Tie Series
(JTA) — The St. Louis Cardinals tied up the World Series with Thursday night’s 4-2 win over Boston. The save went to Trevor Rosenthal. Regrettably, unlike A.M., Lefty, Hannah and the NFL’s Mike Rosenthal, the Cardinals’ Rosenthal is not a Jew. But the reliever is sometimes mistaken for one, as ESPN reported earlier this year:…
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News A Poet Passes: Stanley Siegelman, 87
Stanley Siegelman was never at a loss for words — and they always rhymed. Over the past decade, Stanley, who died of cancer on April 11 at the age of 87, regaled Forward readers with his light verse, first as a contributor to this newspaper’s “Der Yiddish Vinkl” column, more recently with his online “Siegelmania”…
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Opinion J Street and Main Street: The Israel Lobby We Need
When J Street’s supporters gather in Washington later this month for the dovish Israel advocacy group’s first national conference, they will have no shortage of things to celebrate. In the year and a half since its launch, the self-proclaimed “political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement” has made itself a major player in the Jewish…
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Life Van Jones on Israel, the Palestinian ‘Right of Return,’ U.S. Foreign Policy, Etc.
White House green jobs adviser Van Jones resigned this weekend after an avalanche of revelations about — and conservative criticism of — his past rhetoric and associations. The stalwart of the San Francisco Bay Area’s left-wing activist scene achieved considerable mainstream cred after jumping on the green bandwagon and attempting to bridge the divide between…
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Life The Genesis of the Tablet
Blogging about a new illustrated version of Genesis from graphic artist extraordinaire Robert Crumb, Sara Ivry of the online magazine Tablet displays some confusion about her own publication’s genesis. Ivry writes: Crumb relied on Robert Alter’s 2004 translated Five Books of Moses, but tweaked Alter’s prose to make it more colloquial. Alter’s translations have been…
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Life Iran’s Cartoonish Prexy Pretender on Israel: ‘I Heard the Falafel Is Amazing’
Birthright Israel continues its tear as the world’s leading purveyor of clever Jewish viral videos: Hat tip: Jewish Robot UPDATE: I should add that the Israeli MASA program is giving Birthright Israel a run for its money in this department.
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Life ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’ — Let the Furor Begin!
When a far-left Tel Aviv University historian penned a tome dedicated to disputing the historicity of Jewish peoplehood, it — unsurprisingly — caused something of a stir in Israel. Then the book was translated and published in France, where it — also unsurprisingly — was given a prestigious prize. (This prompted the estimable Hillel Halkin,…
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