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  • Sundown: Rocket Hits Ashkelon
    • A rocket from Gaza hit Ashkelon—the first in more than a year—causing damage and panic, though no casualties. [NYT] • Staten Island’s Democratic congressman fired his communications director for leaking a list of his midterm opponent’s Jewish donors under the title, “Grimm Jewish Money Q2” (“Grimm” is the opponent’s unfortunate last name). [Politico] • [...]

  • Apply for a Free Jewish Journalism Class
    If you’re between the ages of 22 and 35, live in the New York City area, and are interested in writing about the Jewish world, you should consider applying to a free seminar that New York Times columnist and Columbia University Journalism School Professor Sam Freedman will be teaching this fall. It will be Sam’s [...]

  • Mainstreaming Hate, Take Two
    Lee Smith’s column this week has received only 102 comments (I say only because last week’s column is up to 257). Unlike last week’s column, which quite a few people on the Internet had

  • ‘Housewives to the Entire Kibbutz’
    On Monday’s Vox Tablet podcast, Sara Ivry talks to filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich about her documentary-in-progress, which examines the 100-year evolution of the kibbutz movement. Through interviews with several generations of kibbutzniks, Perl Freilich digs around for the truth under all the myths. In some cases, the institution comes off looking pretty good; less so, [...]

  • The Next Owner of ‘Newsweek’ Will Be Jewish
    The three bidders still in the mix, according to the New York Times, are audio equipment tycoon Sidney Harman; tastefully named hedge fund guy Marc Lasry; and Mort Zuckerman chum Fred Drasner. All three are Members of the Tribe. (Harman is thought to be the front-runner.) Some words of wisdom for The Washington Post Company, the [...]

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  • Ekev: Everyday Awe

    This week, my kids started Camp Mommy. They’re done with camp until the beginning of the school year, so we call the rest of the summer “Camp Mommy.” Camp Mommy means play dates and day trips. It also means getting anything accomplished is nearly impossible. It means I’m exhausted, but it also means that I get an intensive dose of my kids’ perspective on life.



  • Steve Cohen, Representing a Black District, Faces Down Racially Oriented Opponent

    Congressman Steve Cohen was the first to pass a resolution apologizing for black slavery; He frequently joins African-American voters in his district in dancing and singing; Cohen even asked to become a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, a request that was denied due to the group’s policy of accepting only black lawmakers.



  • ADL Comes Out Against Islamic Center Near Ground Zero

    The Anti-Defamation League has issued a statement opposing the building of a mosque near the World Trade Center memorial site.



  • Among Settlers, Pre-State Revisionist Movements Enjoy a Renaissance

    Dozens of people crowded into Tel Aviv’s Jabotinsky Museum last week to celebrate the 130th birthday of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder of the Revisionist Movement. The evening culminated with a ceremony in which prizes were awarded to high school and college students and academics for work in the spirit of Jabotinsky



  • Hackers Target Buchenwald Website

    Hackers replaced a list of Buchenwald victims with far-right slogans and links to Holocaust denial sites, officials at the concentration camp’s memorial said.



 
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