Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Why Did Josephine Baker Hire a Torah Tutor for a Non-Jewish Orphan?
The January-February 2008 issue of California magazine, U.C. Berkeley’s alumni publication, has a wacky article about famed entertainer Josephine Baker’s attempt to build a village du monde in southwestern France, where the woman who was dubbed the “Black Venus” would be able to prove that people of different races and religions could all get along….
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Nylon in the Temple, Super Bowl Pioneer, Sing-Song Shoah?
CROWN HEIGHTS REDUX: Jewish activists in Crown Heights — the Brooklyn Lubavitcher stronghold that became synonymous with the word “riot” in the 1990s — are faulting police over their response to a number of recent attacks on Jews in the neighborhood. Also in the Jewish Week: Israel correspondent Michele Chabin takes a look at the…
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Life Will Yalies March on the Sun?
The expensively educated elitists over at The New York Sun are making like they’re U.S. News & World Report. They’ve developed an ever-so-scientific system for grading New York City’s elite private schools. The Sun’s methodology: The New York Sun has assigned its own letter grades, using a mathematical formula that takes into account the school’s…
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Life This Week in Weird Holocaust/Nazi Imagery…
Brazilian Jews are angry at the Viradouro samba school for its plans for a Holocaust- themed Carnival float, complete with sculpted piles of dead bodies. The school defended its float. Reuters reports: “The float is extremely respectful, it’s a warning, it’s something shocking that we don’t want to happen ever again,” said Paulo Barros, Viradouro’s…
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Music Whoever Said That Rappers and Orthodox Jews Don’t Mix?
Okay, I’m not sure anyone’s actually said that — and now nobody’s going to be able to say it, because we have ironclad evidence to the contrary. TMZ.com reports that the rapper Pharrell — who collaborated with Snoop Dogg on the hit single “Drop It Like It’s Hot” — “was driving around Miami when he…
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Life Chief Rabbi Metzger Says Build a Palestinian State in the Sinai Desert, It Will Be ‘Like in Arizona’
Israel’s Ashkenazic chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, tells an interviewer that it’s not his place to talk politics, and then he proceeds to talk politics. Metzger weighs in with his thoughts on Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and why the Sinai Desert would make a nice spot for a Palestinian state: Hat tip: Ha’aretz, which summarizes the…
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Life Yid Vid: ‘Beatles’ vs. Julie Andrews
The Beatles video is, of course, dubbed. The Fab Four didn’t really sing in the mameloshn, though they were, apparently, known to warble a bit in German.
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Life Beatings and Burkas in Beit Shemesh
Something has gone horribly wrong in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Zealots within the haredi community in that Israeli city near Jerusalem have engaged in sometimes violent confrontations with their secular and Modern Orthodox neighbors, as well as other ultra-Orthodox Jews. Even The New York Times has taken notice. Back in September, the paper of record reported…
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