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  • On Super Bowl Pregame, Obama Discusses Iran
    I found it especially interesting not only that Matt Lauer asked President Obama about Iran in a traditional pre-Super Bowl White interview, but, following some discussion of who is going to win the game and whether the Obama ladies have a hankering for Tom Brady, that it was the first hard-news question Lauer asked him. [...]

  • Sundown: Roseanne for President
    Enjoy the game! • Roseanne Barr announced her candidacy for the Green Party ticket. The Green Party cautioned that she’d still have to be nominated at the July convention like anyone else. [Page Six] • Ayatollah Khamanei, Iran’s supreme leader, made an unusually blunt threat of retaliation on Israel and the United States in the [...]

  • Tattler Tale
    “Sometimes, a New Yorker cartoon is just a New Yorker cartoon.” Ah, dear commenter. You know us not. Our new feature, by contributing editor and genius lyricist Rachel Shukert, has only been up a few hours, and it’s already doing its job of enlightening, challengingm and infuriating people. Called The Tattler, Rachel’s column will be [...]

  • A Few More Thoughts on That Poll
    A few scattered thoughts on yesterday’s Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll, which showed Jews leaning away from the Democratic Party. • Shmuel Rosner notes that Jews aren’t trending toward the Republicans so much as away from the Democrats (and toward independent status). He also notes that in the context of [...]

  • Ex-Pat
    Today in Tablet Magazine, Naomi Telushkin discovers St. Petersburg’s hip Jewish social scene, where the nightlife rages and the men are in demand. Soviet Unions

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  • Anti-Semitism Still High in Germany

    Germany is still haunted by its Nazi past. One in five Germans still harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, a figure that has not declined in recent years.



  • Dishing Some Linguistic Dirt

    What does it mean to make ‘ashes and mud’ of a person? Philologos gets down into the linguistic muck to explain the origins of this curious expression in Yiddish.



  • Let's Do Coffee, Cousin Carrie

    Author Marla Brown Fogelman has never met Carrie Fisher, who is her distant relative. Even though they have never met, Fogelman has followed Fisher’s rollercoaster life, and is still rooting for her ‘cousin Carrie.’



  • Making Day School Affordable

    SCHOOL SOLUTIONS: Affordability is a major problem for Jewish day schools. The Hyman Brand school in Overland Park, Kan., took a radical step: It slashed tuition in half.



  • Madonna Will Launch World Tour in Israel

    International pop star Madonna reportedly will launch her new world tour in Israel.

 

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