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1 Citation dreidel hustler, a Heeb columnist, is taking some heat in his futile efforts to legitimize the phrase Tushy-Shtup, which as Jewdar noted, ?isn?t even Yinglish, it?s just your own dorky private language used between you and your imaginary friends.? In the late 60?s, Cynthia Ozick mocked young male Jewish writers who displayed their extensive linguistic knowledge of the various Yiddish words for ?penis.? Today our youth don?t even know that. So they just make words up, declare them Yiddish, and, technorati.com
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East Village Mamele: America Must Listen to Some Rabbis Online Somewhere 1 Citation The East Village Mamele is not happy with the voters of California, Arizona and Florida who have ?voted to deny families this kind of joy.? What kind of joy is this? The kind of joy we all should recognize is both universal, urgent, and a basic human right. The joy of singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider at a gay wedding ceremony. ?It was more emotional than we expected,? reported my bro-in-law, as Shirley jabbered in the background. ?It felt like a renewal of our earlier vows. And having Shirley ru, technorati.com
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Not Comfortable with the Jewish Far-Left 1 Citation They can be just as obnoxious as the far-right! I am not terribly comfortable at how Jews have taken such a strident position in favor of gay marriage. I think if Jews are so convinced that this is a universal human right, then maybe they should first agitate to enact this in the Jewish state. But I don?t see them demanding gay marriage in Israel. Rather, they are screaming that they need gay marriage in the U.S. Jews should take a back seat on this one. Our own civilization and culture hard, technorati.com
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Right-wing Conservative Rag Conflates Jewish Liberals and Neturei Karte 1 Citation Eli Valley is racking up the hate for his new comic in the Forward. But some of the enraged denunciations are just plain bizarre. Ed Lasky writes in his essay, ?A Challenge to the Liberal Jewish Community,? in the American Thinker that, Rabbis and other leaders in the Jewish community were in the forefront of criticizing ?smears? against Barack Obama during the recent campaign. These comments concerned not only his heritage but also those people he chose to associate with and support-among, technorati.com
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Reform Woman Frums It Up for a Shabbat 1 Citation Sometimes, you want to see what?s on the other side. How the right-wingers live. So JanetheWriter decided stepped to step outside her comfort zone, and decided to see how the frummies spend shabbat. So she went hardcore. To the JTS, the Conservative movement?s theological seminary. These are excerpts from her tell all report on RJ. Along the way, Jeanne told me that JTS students are required to be shomer shabbos. Before we entered the building on Broadway, therefore, I shut off my cell phon, technorati.com
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1 Citation As some of you probably know, I descend predominantly from moderate-left, not liberal-left, stock. My mom was (and sort of still is) a feminist. But a moderate feminist. Now you might ask, ?what is the difference between a moderate feminist and a regular feminist?? Well, it depends when and where. A moderate feminist in say, the early 70s, might have just started her own local chapter of N.O.W. But a moderate feminist (in say, the early 70s,) might also have left her chapter of N.O.W., the very, technorati.com
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Reconstructionists: No such thing as an ?illegal? immigrant 1 Citation I first noticed this thanks to ?formermuslim?s,? catch on Jewschool . Shalom Rav described illegal aliens as ?undocumented immigrants.? ?formermuslim? noted, ?My G-d! The brainwashing is self-imposed!? And apparently, committee approved. The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF), the political arm of the smallest religious denomination of American Jewry, has endorsed ?A Faith Leaders? Statement on Immigration,? which insists that , ?Anti-immigrant rhetoric has no place in public, technorati.com
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Ahmadinejad Gives Xmas TV Speech 1 Citation Thursday December 25, 2008 Report by A Khokar Critics have attacked Channel 4?s decision to screen a Christmas message (The Alternative Christmas Message) from Iran?s president - claiming it gives a misleading impression of his hardline policies. President Ahmadinejad?s hardline views have proven very controversial outside Iran. The speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose antipathy towards Israel and claims that the Holocaust is a ?myth? have sparked international condemnation, will be broadcas, technorati.com
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Today is day one for celebrating when the Haredi Jews killed the Reform Jews 1 Citation I was ranting to Yitzchak Schoenfeld, the intuitive and sympathetic leader of the chulent crowd about my distaste for something or other about Chanukkah, and he relayed what a frum (but questioning) friend of his had once noted about Chanukkah. ?My side lost.? Comic panel from ?Festival of Lights?, co-written by myself and Eli Valley, courtesy of Eli Valley., technorati.com
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Two of my favorite rabbis trash Agudath Israel essay 1 Citation Perhaps it is a sign of the seasonal redemption, because what could be sweeter for The Kvetcher than when the Ethical Monotheist leader, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, tag-teams the American ultra-Orthodox spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran with no less than Right-wing Modern Orthodoxy?s best, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb? Ben Harris has the story on the JTA . Rabbi Shafran wrote a deplorable essay defending Bernie Madoff, of all people. After all, Madoff apologized. ?what I admire about him has to do w, technorati.com
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