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S**t People Say to Jews

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jews, Shit People Say, Bible, Jesus, Christmas, Christmas Trees, Judaism, Passover, Shit People Say Meme, Comedy News

Wait, you guys have Sunday on Saturday? Isn't that confusing? He's your type, he looks Jewish. So he tried to Jew me down. Oops. No offense. Is ...

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Read More: Unity, Whites, Treyvon Martin, Jews, Language, George Zimmerman, Latin America, Ethnicity, Pew Research Center, Mexico, Ray Romano, American., Hispanics, Rachel Welch, Minority, Race, American Family, Italians, Latino Voices News

I would rather call myself an American. But if you press me, if you really want me to adopt a label, for the sake of equality and freedom I will tell you: I am white.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews To Hold Rally Against The Internet

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: The Internet, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Jews, Orthodox Jews Internet, Video, Orthodox Jews, Haredi Jew, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Technology, Haredi Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Technology News

A mass rally against the Internet and technology held by a group of Haredim, or ultra-orthodox Jews, will take place in Queens, New York on May 20, re...

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Why Won't Mitt Romney Answer Elie Wiesel?

Steve Sheffey | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Mitt Romney, Jews, Mormons, Holocaust, Posthumous Baptism, Politics News

Romney can say Wiesel is right about the Mormon Church. Romney can say Wiesel is wrong about the Mormon Church. Romney can say it's none of Wiesel's business about the Mormon Church. Instead, Romney says nothing. That's not leadership. That's cowardice.

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Semana Latina: How Far Have Judeo-Latino Relations Progressed?

Gabriel Lerner | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Latinos, Jewish Identity, Jews, Survey, Latino Culture, American Jews, Latino Identity, Latino Voices News

For us Latinos, the organized Jewish community has been an important ally in the quest for an immigration reform. And for us Jews, the alliance with the Latino community and support of its advancement keeps us in the right side of history.

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Yom HaShoah: A Day To Remember The Good We Lost

Andrea Strongwater | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Jews, Holocaust, Yom Hashoah, Jewish Culture, Judaism, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish Art, Religion News

This year, I am choosing to remember what was lost and trying to bring it back to its place in history where not just the murders, but the culture, will be remembered.

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Stolen WWII Painting Will Be Returned To Jewish Family

AP | GARY FINEOUT | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Jews, Video, Vichy Government, Wwii, Girolamo Romano, Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue, Italian Jews, Federico Gentili Di Giuseppe, Florida, Painting, Stolen Art, Arts News

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — U.S. authorities ended a more than 70-year-old art drama Wednesday by returning a 16th century masterpiece to a Jewish man's...

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Remembering the Holocaust - With Steponas

Ellen Cassedy | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Jews, Lithuania, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Judaism, Jewish History, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012, Lithuanian Jews, Yom Hashoah, World War Two, World War II, Yom HaShoah 2012, World News

On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, I will remember the six million who perished -- and I'll also remember a man I met in Lithuania, a man I'll call Steponas. I didn't expect to encounter an elderly gentile man intent on speaking to a Jew before he died. But I did.

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What Was So Wrong With What Ozzie Guillen Said?

Ethan Casey | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Jews, Baseball, Cuban-Americans, Major League Baseball, Cuban Americans, Florida Marlins, Miami Marlins, Israel, Florida, Cubans in Florida, Miami, American Jews, Cuba, Ozzie Guillen, Miami News

In the United States of America, do we enjoy the right to free speech? Notwithstanding whether Ozzie Guillen was unwise or tactless to open his trap in the first place, this has gone well beyond both the state line and the foul lines.

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WATCH: Jason Segel Has A Jewish Drawer

Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Catholics, Jews, Video, Five-Year Engagement, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel, Comedy News

In the upcoming comedy "The Five Year Engagement," Jason Segel and Emily Blunt are two people who can't wait to get married, but unfortunately life ge...

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PHOTOS: Exhibit Of 18 Violins Tells Story Of The Holocaust

AP | MARTHA WAGGONER | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Jews, Holocaust, Wwii, Judaism, Violins, Auschwitz Violin, Jewish, UNC Charlotte Center City, Auschwitz, Violins of Hope, Religion News

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- When a musician plays a violin long enough, the instrument is imprinted with its owner's way of making sound. If someone else picks...

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Passover and Revolution: Why Are We So Afraid of Change?

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Change, Jews, Abraham, Moses, God, Sarah, Judaism, Passover, Religion News

The story of Exodus tells us over and over again that all human beings fear change even when all the evidence is pointing towards how much better the unknown will be.

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Information Age Lessons From Passover

Dovid Efune | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Jews, Matzah, Elijah, Online Publishing, Israel, Passover, Judaism, Information Age, Seder, Religion News

The Jewish Sages of old implemented rituals of remembrance and practice that utilized all possible communicative stimulants that their era presented them with. Perhaps we will be inspired to apply their historic challenge to the trials of our age.

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A Mediterranean Passover Seder

Food52 | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Kosher, Jews, Jewish Holidays, Recipes, Cooking, Jewish, food52, Lamb, Food, Spring, Seder, Kosher Passover, Slidepollajax, Passover, KitchenDaily News

Turns out, as with so many religious events, peoples' Passover traditions are both widely varied and closely held.

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Jews In The Diaspora Are Not Partial Jews: A Response To A.B. Yehoshua

Carlo Strenger | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Jewish Identity, Jews, Diaspora Jews, Judaism, Individualism, Danny Cohn Bendit, A.b. Yehoshua, Classical Liberalism, Israel, Diaspora, Religion News

I personally do not know what it means to be a complete or a partial Jew; moreover, I reject any demand that I need to live a full rather than a partial Jewish existence.

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Defining Freedom For Jews

S.R. Hewitt | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Jews, Haggadah, Egypt, Jewish, Freedom, Pesach, Spirituality, Judaism, Passover, Freedom for Jews, Religion News

Being free means accepting absolute responsibility for one's own behavior, which also made one distinctly aware of how one's own actions effect the community.

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Shahs of Sunset: Episode 3 With a Nugget From Episode 1

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Jews, Reality Television, Iran, Reality TV, Muslims, Bravo TV, Entertainment, Iran News, Shahs of Sunset Bravo, Entertainment News, American Iran Culture, Shahs of Sunset, Twitter, Facebook, Social Media, Israel, TV News

They are friends. I love this, I really do, because, believe it or not, Iranians of different cultural backgrounds do get along... and despite the current political situation and its bigoted notions, they mostly have over the centuries Iran has been around.

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9 Rules For Doing Business With A Jew Like Me

Gene Marks | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Jews, Small Business, Jewish, Jewish Small Business, Small Business America, Passover, Jewish Small Business Owners, Small Business News

I bet there are a bunch of things you didn't know about doing business with a Jew. And yet you probably have a lot of Jewish customers and vendors. Consider this to be my Passover gift to you. Let me share just a few simple rules that might help you profit with my people in the coming year.

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High School To Students: Delete Facebook Account Or Be Expelled

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Jews, Video, Jewish Orthodox, Judaism, Jewish Orthodoxy, Jewish Brooklyn School, School Bans Facebook, School Ban, Jewish High School, Jewish Schools, Facebook Ban, Facebook, Facebook Banned in School, Education News

Controversy ensued after the Beis Rivkah all-girl high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., pulled from class every 11th grade student who used Facebook and hand...

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Nir Hod, the Artist Behind the Genius Children, Unveils Mother

Annie Fabricant | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Paul Kasmin Gallery, Jews, Genius, Art, Boy From Warsaw, Holocaust, Nazis, Israel, New York Arts, Nir Hod, Shadow Paintings, Warhol, New York, Slidepollajax, Bezalel Academy of Art, Arts News

This Wednesday 28th at Paul Kasmin the 41 year old Israeli-born artist will present his new body of work, entitled Mother. A series of ten large paintings, they reference the famously heart-wrenching Holocaust photograph of Nazi soldiers clearing out the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.

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France: United in Grief, but for How Long?

Symi Rom-Rymer | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, North African, French, Muslims, France, Mohammed Merah, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Francois Mitterand, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News

In recent decades, French society has become increasingly divided. Social ills have become more increasingly apparent but little has been done to address them.

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Responding To Murder At A French Jewish Day School

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, France, Jews, Judaism, Terrorism, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Religion News

All the House of Israel mourns the heinous, cowardly, anti-Semitic murders of a young rabbi, his two small children and another 10-year-old child, who were gunned down outside of a Jewish day school in Toulouse this morning.

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Barack Obama Is Such a Traditional Jew Sometimes

Jeffrey Goldberg | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Jews, Haggadah, Jeffrey Goldberg, Passover Haggadah, Barack Obama, Obama Jews, New American Haggadah, Jonathan Safran Foer, Politics News

George W. Bush was, in his own way, a philo-Semite, but he never would have made such a member-of-the-tribe kind of joke as Barack Obama did when I recently handed him a copy of the New American Haggadah.

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Nose Job Doc In Hot Water For Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Michael Salzhauer, Jews, Video, Orthodox Jews, Plastic Surgery, Jewcan Sam, Small Business News and Trends, ABC News, Cosmetic Surgery, Rhinoplasty, Nose Job, Investigation, Small Business News

Michael Salzhauer, a Miami cosmetic surgeon and small-business owner, has a nose for inviting controversy. The so-called Dr. Schnoz has produced a roc...

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The State Of Anti-Shari'a Bills

Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Catholics, Islam, Jews, Halacha, Muslims, Sharia Law, Oklahoma Shariah Ban, Sharia, Islamic Law, Religion and Politics, Religion News

Despite early momentum, the sponsors of anti-sharia legislation may have an uphill battle ahead of them.

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