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Jackie Mason says Silverman’s a ‘sick yenta’ for telling Jews to vote Obama


Paul Newman dies at 83


Brains and Braun: Hebrew Hammer instills pride in the Tribe


Sarah Silverman says Obama is ‘circum-supersized’


It’s a bird! It’s a plane. No, it’s a Jew!


New York Jews favor McCain over Obama


Sarah Palin and the Jews: In her own words *


Barbie and the Jews


Obama’s Jewish problem: 300 rabbis endorse him *


Robert De Niro is Jewish?


Palin, proselytizing and Jews for Jesus


Michelle Obama related to black rabbi


Obama, McCain and Jewish American princesses


Sarah Palin: Is she good for the Jews?


Jewish dual loyalty and anti-Semitic witch hunts


‘Even if Democrats had picked David Ben-Gurion to run as vice president’


Rabbi to give invocation before Obama’s acceptance speech


The dark side of TV’s Danny Tanner


From Pakistan to the Jewish Journal


Brad Pitt is Jewish


The Jewish Jesse Owens at the Nazi Olympics


Jordan Farmar fulfills his mission to Israel


Joe Klein continues defending Jewish dual-loyalty claim


Economic ripples rock Jewish community


Rediscovering gangster Jewish roots


‘Why do people think Jews run Hollywood?’


Jewcy: ‘Hell hath no fury like a pissed off Jewish mother’


Avoiding ‘Escape from the Holy Shtetl’


Rosner to the rescue: J Street full of surprises after all


Department of No Duh: Jews dislike Bush, like Obama and Israel


The VideoJew, you and 2,000 Zionist women


Suddenly, I’m an expert on black Jews*


Look at the size of that Jew!


Borat and the Jewish cowboy


McCain as popular as Obama with religious Jews


The blood they gave lasted less than a day


New UC president a godly figure


Conversions up, African-American Jews on the move


Joe Klein’s dual-loyalty assertion for Jews


Yes, Virginia, there is a Jewish media conspiracy


Israel’s sugar daddy, Sheldon Adelson


Under-40s reshape Jewish engagement, report finds

A new report lends muscle to certain aspects of the phenomenon, hinted at by Katznelson: Young Jews' desire to be with other young Jews and their interest in creating their own Jewish experiences rather than signing up for long-standing programs.

World Jewish Congress moves to the Capitol


My two Jewish mothers


‘Hulk’: Jewish peacenik transforms into raging right-winger


McCain or Obama: Who will Jewish Democrats vote for?


The Rabbi in the dugout


Jewish Jordan to be messiah of NBA Finals?


Obama the speech-topping, pro-Israel hawk *


‘Jewish hustler’—potty mouth and pervert—means no offense


Obama’s Jewish problem? Separating fact from fiction


Leading Jewish organizations decline to condemn Hagee’s ‘Hitler’ sermon


Braun and Youkilis—pride of the Tribe, but MVPs?


‘Jews Against Obama’


American Jews and Israelis: brothers from different mothers


Obama’s Jewish campaign


Obama on ‘the kishke question’


The false claim: Obama or Israel


How do American Jews love Israel?


Fear over intermarriage is overblown

Purim is a time to dull our senses with drink and cloak our identity by dressing in costume. We do so in order to confront a troubling part of our history and the threats to Jewish life and continuity in the Diaspora.

L.A.’s defenders of Israel

StandWithUs has grown from a small group of volunteers meeting at the Rothsteins' home to an international organization with offices in Los Angeles, New York and three other U.S. locales as well as Europe and Israel. With a staff of about 40, a budget of $3 million and a number of printed materials -- including a 43-page glossy guide, "Israel 101," and flyers comparing Walt and Mearsheimer's book "The Israel Lobby" with "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" -- StandWithUs acts, as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said, as an "intellectual Delta Force."

Whither the Left?

What exactly is the state of the pro-Israel peace movement in America? Does the Jewish institutional establishment represent the position of the American Jewish community? And if not, why are alternate voices not being heard?

Individual choice challenges communal commitments

The principal authority for contemporary American Jews, in the absence of compelling religious norms and communal loyalties, has become the sovereign self. Each person now performs the labor of fashioning his or her own self, pulling together elements from the various Jewish and non-Jewish repertoires available rather than stepping into an "inescapable framework" of identity -- familial, communal, traditional -- given at birth. Decisions about ritual observance and involvement in Jewish institutions are made and made again, considered and reconsidered, year by year, and even week by week. American Jews speak of their lives, and of their Jewish beliefs and commitments, as a journey of ongoing questioning and development. They avoid the language of arrival. There are no final answers, no irrevocable commitments.

Birthright program needs wider support

The results of a new study, "Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation from Israel," on young American Jews' attitudes toward Israel, were released recently, and the news is disheartening. These Jews, who represent American Judaism's prospects in the next generation, are growing increasingly alienated from Israel, the study finds. They are less concerned with its welfare than previous generations and, unbelievably, less comfortable with the very idea of a Jewish state.

American Jewish youth alienated from Israel, study finds

Young American Jews are increasingly alienated from Israel, according to a report released last week.

Scary Hummus


I am ashamed of the URJ’s Iraq resolution

I don't embarrass easily. But the Union for Reform Judaism's (URJ) recent resolution calling for an "expeditious withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq" did the trick.

Book review: Are Christian Zionists good for the Jews?

Jews who care about the survival of Israel should welcome the faith, the influence with Republican White House occupants, and the money supplied by the likes of preachers Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than turn it away, Chafets says.

Is turnabout fair play for 110th Congress?

Last month's electoral earthquake means the 110th Congress, which convenes in January, will look very different from its do-nothing predecessor. But gridlock, the dubious hallmark of the past few sessions, will continue unless leaders in both parties decide to start working across party lines.

On Thanksgiving, open your hand to the poor and needy

Thanksgiving is the holiday to which most American Jews fully relate. It's based on the biblical Sukkot, and it's the American holiday most associated with family gatherings and food. And yet, there is much more to the holiday than stuffing and pumpkin pie.


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