Yermi Brenner
By Yermi Brenner
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News Getting In Face of Ultra-Orthodox on Need for Real World Education
Gedalya Gottdenger’s dream is to get a degree in psychology. But unlike most 21-year-olds, Gottdenger lacks a basic education, even though he has been studying since he was a child. Gottdenger, who grew up in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, is a product of ultra-Orthodox Jewish day schools in which, numerous students report, math and…
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News Melissa Etheridge Blasts Angelina Jolie for Choosing Preventive Breast Cancer Surgery
The debate over Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy in order to reduce her chances of breast cancer from a ‘Jewish gene’ mutation just got feisty. Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who is herself a breast cancer survivor, said Jolie’s decision was “fearful”, in an interview with the Washington Blade. Asked about Jolie’s decisions, Etheridge,…
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Breaking News Bill Clinton Pushes Israelis To Make Compromises for Two-State Solution
Former President Bill Clinton urged Israel to seek a two-state solution to reach a longlasting peace with the Palestinians in a closely watched speech in Tel Aviv. Pushing the efforts of Secretary of State John Kerry, Clinton told the Israeli audience that there is no alternative an agreement that would create a Palestinian state alongside…
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Food Pork Is Kosher, Announces The Onion
We have some very exciting news: The 6,000-years-long Jewish ban on pork has been lifted! The Onion is reporting that the World Rabbinical Council has announced that Jews worldwide are now allowed to “dig in to the delicious taste of ham.” No more holding back on the bacon, or skipping “the other white meat” at…
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Opinion At Massive Anti-Draft Protest, Haredi Jews Came Together — But Not on Zionism
In an unusual show of unity, various streams of ultra-Orthodox Jews joined together June 9 in a massive rally in downtown Manhattan to protest the Israeli government’s recent efforts to draft yeshiva students into the military. Even the dueling factions within the Satmar Hasidic movement put aside their differences to organize the protest, and the…
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Opinion The One About Clinton, JNF, Peres and the $500K Bill
Like many urban legends, the myth — and now mess — of the Jewish National Fund’s supposed agreement to pay former President Bill Clinton $500,000 in charitable funds to speak for 45 minutes to an exclusive group of Israeli dinner guests began with an incorrect press report — which then got repeated until it was…
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Food Longest. Shabbat Table. Ever.
Imagine your regular Shabbat dinner. Now extend the table and summon several more chairs. And a few more. OK, now add about a hundred more seats. Your table is still not likely to be even half the size of the record-setting Shabbat dinner that was recently on display in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak….
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News Anthony Weiner Gets Hero’s Welcome at Brooklyn Mayoral Forum
Anthony Weiner got a hero’s welcome as he returned to his old political home turf Tuesday night for a New York City mayoral forum aimed at the Orthodox community of Flatbush, Brooklyn. It took the disgraced ex-Congressman 20 minutes to get from the entrance of the building to the stage, as he stopped along the…
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