Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Should Illinois Pols Go to Mikva To Get Clean?
Leading liberal journo Michael Tomasky argues in the Guardian that Illinois pols should tap Obama mentor, ex-congressman and former federal judge Abner Mikva to fill the president-elect’s Senate seat. Tomasky writes that Mikva “was known in his day as a foe of corruption and the old Chicago Democratic machine. Of stature and above reproach? He’s…
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Life Yid Vid: Sephardic and Ashkenazic, Haredi and Hip-Hop-ish, Who Says We All Can’t Get Along?
Orthodox pop phenom Gad Elbaz and Israeli reggaeton artist Alon de Loco built a bridge in song: Now, into my e-mail inbox comes further proof of the power of music to bring people together. Indeed, it is powerful enough even to overcome the narcissism of minor differences:
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Life Heeb Hundred and Forward 50 Agree — But Only Once
The Forward 50 and the Heeb Hundred don’t tend to have too much overlap. This year, however, our circles intersect, though only in the person of FailedMessiah blogger Shmarya Rosenberg. But don’t take this narrow intersection as evidence that our 110-year-old newspaper is somehow behind those Heeb hipsters on the coolness curve; we were way,…
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Life Forward 50 Honoree Makes Own List: Philosemitic 50
Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg — whom this year’s Forward 50 dubbed “the elite media’s leading Judaic scribe” (much to fellow Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan’s delight) — has responded to his inclusion on our list of estimable individuals by starting a list of his own. The folks on Goldberg’s list may prove to be an…
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Life Yid Vid: Animating the Portion
Sarah Lefton, a San Francisco-based Jewish innovator, who was responsible for giving the world the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy, which sold schmattes bearing clever semitic slogans, has a cool new conspiracy brewing. This time, her co-conspirators include those learned in the ways of Torah and those learned in the ways of animation. The result is the…
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Life Yid Vid: Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones Address the Economic Crisis
While Barney Frank and Ben Bernanke have been working on addressing the economic crisis, two younger, slightly more glamorous Jews are thinking of some outside-the-box solutions. What do Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones think we should be doing? Watch and learn: See more Natalie Portman videos at Funny or Die Hat tip: Gothamist
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Music Yid Vid: If Amy Winehouse Were a Yiddish-Speaking, Bearded, Orthodox Guy Who Had a Little Too Much Manischewitz…
…she still wouldn’t want to go to rehab: There’s something quite appropriate about doing an Amy Winehouse cover while a bit shikered. Here’s Winehouse herself performing a Michael Jackson cover while in a bit of state. Hat tip: Commentary’s John Podhoretz UPDATE: The mysterious, bearded, Yiddish-speaking Orthodox guy has been identified! Bintel Blog reader Ralph…
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Life Lebanon to Israel: Hands Off Our Falafel Balls
From DPA via Ha’aretz’s Web site: The president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association Fadi Abboud, said he is preparing to file an international lawsuit against Israel for allegedly “taking the identity of some Lebanese foods” and thus violating a food copyright. “In a way the Jewish state is trying to claim ownership of traditional Lebanese…
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