Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Ed Koch Admires Michelle Obama’s Legs
Former New York City mayor Ed Koch writes a candid and often delightful regular column that he e-mails out and that is picked up by newspapers all over. Sometimes his choice of topics is a bit quirky. One of his most recent columns, a series of short takes on a number of important issues, concludes…
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Life Obama and Bush: A Rosh Hashanah Double Standard?
Comparisons of President Obama to Hitler by health care town hall protesters have drawn widespread ridicule and outrage. Some conservatives though see a double standard: Where was all this outrage when President Bush was being compared to Hitler by some on the left? But that’s not the only double standard that has some conservatives exercised…
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Life What if Job Lived in Williamsburg?
No, not that Williamsburg. And certainly not this Williamsburg. Rather, the Williamsburg that is adjacent to the former, but where, unlike either the former or the latter, people don’t wear knee-length breeches, except perhaps occasionally for reasons of irony or of the avant garde. WARNING: Video features mildly offensive language and perhaps more offensive interpretive…
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Life Waxman to Weiner: ‘Speak English’
A little mameloshn came spilling out of the mouth of Rep. Anthony Weiner (aka the future Mr. Huma Abedin) during a discussion of health care reform. New York Daily News blogger Michael McAuliff reports: “We’re not going to take hundreds of billions of dollars a year and give it to insurance companies who give us…
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News Rahm’s Dad Digs Bibi, Wants Israelis To Stop Attacking His Son
When Rahm Emanuel was first tapped by President-elect Obama to be his chief of staff, Jews kvelled. Amid uncertainty and anxiety in some quarters over Obama’s views toward Israel, the selection of the son of an Israeli veteran of the pre-state Irgun militia as the White House chief of staff offered some reassurance. Since then,…
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Life Andrew Sullivan’s ‘Mitzvah’ Problem
Gay-Catholic-conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan has many spheres of writerly expertise. Jewish religious terminology isn’t one of them. In a recent post on his blog, Sullivan discussed his marriage. “To watch someone you love blossom and grow and mature and thrive is what my Jewish friends call a mitzvah,” Sullivan wrote. This prompted a reader to…
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Life Pesach With the Kushners
The son is the young Manhattan media mogul who just got engaged to Ivanka Trump. The father is the New Jersey real estate baron who went to jail for tax fraud and sending a prostitute to try to entrap his brother-in-law. New York magazine has a lengthy profile of the Kushners — and, oy, do…
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Culture Iranian Intelligence Ministry Thinks George Soros and John McCain Are Buddies
Here’s a video broadcast by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry, subtitled by Memri. Very “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Very “Protocols.” Very creepy. (Though the production values are very lousy.) Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan’s blog
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