Edmon J. Rodman
By Edmon J. Rodman
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News Beyond Best Sellers
Jews are the People of the Book, but it has to be the right book: inspiring, life defining, readable on a plane. Sometimes it’s not even the book everybody else is reading. Best-seller lists, and even Jewish best-seller lists, like the one in Hadassah magazine, are great for driving the book-reading herd. But what if…
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Life For the Woman Who Has Everything, a Hanukkah Pap ‘Shmear’?
For Hanukkah, what do you give the woman who has everything? According to CBS, a pap “shmear.” As part of a CBS Cares public service announcement program, the station has recently begun running 10-second spots suggesting just that. Two Hanukkah- and two Christmas-themed public service announcements urge viewers to get their wives, or their “women,”…
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Israel News Trick or Treyf: Madoff Mask A Hit for Halloween
Ghostly sightings of Bernard Madoff’s plastic punim will be popping up everywhere this Halloween, as costume shops report that Madoff masks are flying off the shelves. As of press time, Amazon.com listed its Madoff mask as “currently unavailable,” and it was “temporarily out of stock” at AnyCostume.com. Mask buyers are pairing the face with striped…
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Israel News Home Is Where the Hat Is
A little short of green this Sukkot? Do rising sukkah construction costs have you down? Maybe you don’t have the space for a sukkah. Or due to a total lack of engineering skills, your shaky chateau is just not happening. In this Season of our Joy, don’t be left out. Instead, use your head. You…
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Culture Extend the Vote – Don’t Lock Out American Jews
The gates of acknowledgment are closing on Jewish Americans, but it’s time to kick them back open. The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia has recently announced an online vote on who will appear in a multimedia exhibit of the museum’s Only in America Gallery set to open in 2010. Voting and nominations…
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Culture Jews in Space
In space no one can hear you scream. But can they hear you kvetch? I’m sitting in a movie theatre, watching the new Star Trek Movie. On screen, a group of Star Fleet recruits, including a Jewish actor or two, climb into a space shuttle and strap themselves in. My eyes wander from neck to…
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