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Obama:  Happy Passover (The Video)

By Ami Eden · April 5, 2012

Check it out.

  • Obama flashes a (half) kohen sign—how ‘Spock-like’ is our president?
  • Is the Obama administration sabotaging an Israeli Iran strike through leaks?
  • Sheldon Adelson: Newt at the end of the line, Romney too cautious, Santorum ‘too social’
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From one Jonathan Miller to another: Your Israeli boycott call is anti-Semitic

By Ami Eden · April 6, 2012

I’m confused.

  • Mad Men’s new Jew (Michael Ginsburg)—double oy!
  • Washington Jewish Week owners buy the Baltimore Jewish Times
  • All Beinart all the time… plus Beinart vs. Newhouse in 2012
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Let survivors go to court

By JTA Mailman · April 4, 2012

To the Editor:

  • Dismayed by TAPPS stance
  • Gefilte Fish Pond?
  • Ban metzizah b’peh ritual
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Passover Seder Survival Kit (Archive Style)

By Adam Soclof · April 1, 2012

Planning a Seder? Bogged down by pre-Passover procrastination? Some resources and conversation starters from the JTA Archive:

  • 10 Plagues, 20th Century
  • Darth Vader’s Jewish roots
  • Terror in Toulouse
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Odessa Jewish orphanage doesn’t fit the stereotype

By Alex Weisler · November 1, 2011

I wasn’t sure what my visit to an Odessa Jewish orphanage would entail.

  • Despite language barrier, Odessa Limmud event has palpable energy
  • The week ahead: trips to Ukraine, Moldova and a country that doesn’t exist
  • In London, a metropolis with a rich and diverse Jewish life
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Pioneering feminist poet Adrienne Rich dies at 82

By Alan D. Abbey · April 2, 2012

Adrienne Rich, who grappled publicly, artistically, and graphically with her feminism, lesbianism, and Jewish identity for decades in her groundbreaking poetry and essays, died at 82 on March 27.

  • James Endler, engineered WTC, West Point Jewish Chapel, dies at 82
  • More on Murray Lender
  • More on boxing writer Bert Sugar

Around the Web

Selected by JTA Editors

  • Beinart meets the establishment
  • Recipes that de-stress
  • Reliving the Exodus
  • The Yankees and Passover (New York TImes)
  • Thomas Friedman is clueless (Commentary)
  • Anti-Semitism, Swedish style (Tablet)
  • The rabbi is a cop (Wall Street Journal)
  • The Manischewitz makeover (Huffington Post)
  • General Grant and the Jews (New York Times)
  • Passover quiz

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Recent Posts

  • From one Jonathan Miller to another: Your Israeli boycott call is anti-Semitic
  • Obama:  Happy Passover (The Video)
  • Obama flashes a (half) kohen sign—how ‘Spock-like’ is our president?
  • Let survivors go to court
  • Dismayed by TAPPS stance
  • Pioneering feminist poet Adrienne Rich dies at 82
  • Mad Men’s new Jew (Michael Ginsburg)—double oy!
  • Washington Jewish Week owners buy the Baltimore Jewish Times
  • All Beinart all the time… plus Beinart vs. Newhouse in 2012
  • James Endler, engineered WTC, West Point Jewish Chapel, dies at 82

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