Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Israeli Rightist: Conversion Is Existential Issue
The debate over conversion has been heating up, here in America and in Israel. Last week, the left-wing Israeli daily Ha’aretz weighed in with a searing editorial urging the rabbinate to stop obstructing the conversion of the masses of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who are not considered Jewish under halacha. This week, it’s…
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News NJDC: Huckabee Is an ‘Extremist’
The National Jewish Democratic Council doesn’t approve of the choice of Republican caucus-goers. In a statement, the NJDC dubbed the former Arkansas governor an “extremist”; called his record on church-state issues is “frightening”; rapped him over his opposition to dual citizenship, pointing to Americans who vote in Israeli elections; and said that he “has not…
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Life Kvetching About Ohr Somayach
Blogger David Kelsey (aka The Kvetcher) is no fan of Ohr Somayach, the Jerusalem-based ultra-Orthodox outreach organization. In post after post on his blog, the indefatigable Kelsey has kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism against Ohr Somayach, which he sees as a “fundie black hole of destruction of self” and has dubbed the “Dark…
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Life The Country So Nice That Bush Wants To Visit Twice?
About to make the first visit of his presidency to Israel, Presdient Bush reportedly is already planning a second trip to the Jewish state. Ha’aretz reports that Bush plans to visit again in May for a convention Israeli President Shimon Peres will hold to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state.
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: Lubavitcher vs. Lubavitcher, It’s Raining Babies, 99% of Jews Agree
LUBAVITCHER VS. LUBAVITCHER: The leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has won a court battle for control of their main Crown Heights synagogue against their more messianically inclined brethren, The New York Jewish Week reports. Also in the Jewish Week: Murdered Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto had long maintained a close friendship with Jewish Democratic lobbyist and…
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Life Forget ‘Kosher Cheeseburgers,’ Let’s Focus on Rebuilding the Temple
Rabbi David Bar-Hayim thinks Israel’s Orthodox Jews are debating the wrong things. By way of example, the rabbi points to a few silly questions that have been posed to him about food: Whether religious Jews should eat anything that looks non-kosher Whether the desire for kosher cheeseburgers indicated a character or spiritual flaw Whether one…
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Life Iran’s New TV Network Has No Sense of Humor
The folks who run the Web site of a new Iranian government-sponsored English-language TV network— the Islamic Republic’s answer to CNN and al-Jazeera English —apparently don’t get the concept of satire.
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Life Who’s Your Messiah?
“If you believe that a dead man is the messiah, does that disqualify you from converting to Judaism?” That’s the question raised in a Jerusalem Post article about an immigrant from the former Soviet Union who came to Israel under its Law of Return and was interested in converting to Judaism. While the rabbis were…
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