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Jul.03.2009
Orthodox Jews face off against secularists in the Holy Land — a sign that all is well. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost
JERUSALEM — Ultra-orthodox Jews have been rioting the last few weeks against a parking lot the municipality wants to leave open during the Jewish Sabbath, leading to dozens of...
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Jul.02.2009
My friend Ilan Mizrahi has published a wonderful book of his photos about Jerusalem -- not the conventional Jerusalem of suicide bombs and the Dome of the Rock and praying Hassids (though he covers that, too). Ilan, who was born just down the road from where I now live and is as "Jerusalem...
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Jun.21.2009
The Budapest Protocol, by Adam Lebor(Reportage Press)
Sometimes a journalist comes across something so powerful that it seems bigger than the project he’s researching. Usually it’s put aside to serve as the basis for a future project, a magazine article or another nonfiction book.
Sometimes it...
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Jun.15.2009
I am Jewish and (ahem) some of my best friends are Jews. A remarkable number of those friends are, well, high up in the news and publishing business. If there were, say, a “Jewish Conspiracy”to control the news to advance a particular agenda, my friends would be the ones having the secret meetings...
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Jun.11.2009
Rosie O'Donnell, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and James von Brunn have a lot more in common than not. All have a problem with "Neocons" and two of the three are clear that they have a fear of the power of Jews ... and believe that 9/11/2001 was not the result of jetliners being hijacked and...
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Jun.07.2009
http://thepeepdiaries.com
New York Reading: presented the book to a very kind and interested group at the McNally Jackson store in Manhattan. They gave me a coupon for a free book which I forgot to use. Hey New Yorkers: email me a great peep story or link and I’ll send ya a free book coupon. The...
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Jun.05.2009
“Fuck,” said God. …That’s a line from one of the short-stories in Shalom Auslander’s “Beware of God.” I live in the Middle East, so I feel like I hear God saying “Fuck!” almost every day. (If He doesn’t, then He’s not reading the newspapers.) “Beware of God” nails faith and the faithful as only a...
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May.27.2009
“Bristol: ethnic minorities and the city. 1000-2001”. Written by Madge Dresser with Peter Fleming, this book covers a thousand and one years of the history of ethnic minorities in the port city of Bristol, UK. Madge is a Reader in History at the University of the West of England and a Fellow of...
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May.07.2009
Over the weekend I went to Montreal to visit my ailing grandfather, in and out of the hospital with a bad heart and water in his lungs and who knows what else.
He’s 94 years old. The first day we were there, he was pretty confused. The second day, he’d recovered some and was back to his old self,...
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Apr.08.2009
This Passover, as we celebrate our ancestors’ freedom from slavery, we reconnect through our most important holiday with our centuries-long traditions. It is incumbent upon us to contemplate the broader concept of freedom and what it means to us as individuals, as members of our immediate...
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