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• Gawker: Jews will do anything for a dollar

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:54 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Anti Semitism, Harry Potter, Politics, Israel, Media

  from the United Torah Judaism Party (by way of an Associated Press story) slamming the Potter books' defective messages and their subculture before the Gawker writer fires back: [I]sn't this exactly how some of us feel about, you know, the Bible and its subculture of weird, tallis-wearing followers? Hee hee -- Orthodox Jews

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• End of the line for 'Little Eichmanns' professor

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Jihad, Academia

  Ward Churchill met his maker -- I'm sorry, salary payer -- yesterday, and he was told to take a hike.Churchill, if you don't remember, was the University of Colorado professor who put some of the blame for 9/11 on ... the victims. Selfish capitalists he referred to in an essay as "Little Eichmanns."His case, which later included allegations of

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• Mourning and planning for the Third Temple

  Published: July 23, 2007, 7:23 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Temple, Israel

  You probably thought Yom Kippur was the saddest day on the Jewish calendar -- the atoning for sins, the fasting. But, in fact, that date is Tisha B'Av, which begins at sundown tonight. It commemorates the tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, particularly the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.With this backdrop, a

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• It's official: the LA Times hates Israel

  Published: July 23, 2007, 8:05 am

  Tags: Judaism, Islam, Los Angeles, Jihad, Israel, Middle East, Media

  That's definitely the feeling out here.I wrote two weeks ago about how I found it surprising that the LA Times had given a platform to a Hamas leader on its op-ed page. Then in Friday's Jewish Journal, Tamar Sternthal complained about the same op-ed, asking why the Times neglected to mention that Mousa Abu Marzook had been indicted in 2004 in the

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• Israeli cable wants to yank Christian station

  Published: July 22, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Israel, Entertainment, Christianity, Media

  Israel's Hot Cable TV is planning on pulling a Christian station that runs 15-minute infomercials that try to reach Jews with the message of Jesus, causing, of course, an international brouhaha. Jerusalem city councilwoman Mina Fenton, an anti-missionary activist, told the Jerusalem Post:"The State of Israel must safeguard its Jewish existence

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• Rabbi's existence causes uproar in Egypt

  Published: July 20, 2007, 7:21 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Middle East

  and its relationship to Judaism. But a recent trip to Ain Shams University in Cairo, at which he delivered a paper on "Problematic of the Chosen in Monotheistic Religions," ended badly when participating Egyptian professors learned he was a rabbi.Mohamed El-Hawwari, head of the university's Centre for the Study of Contemporary Civilisations,

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• Aliyah to New Orleans

  Published: July 20, 2007, 3:31 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Los Angeles, Israel, America

  I bet there was a time when people would say, "You couldn't pay me enough to move to California." Actually, New Yorkers still say it. But now the Jewish community of New Orleans, down about 30 percent, to 7,000, since Hurricane Katrina, has cribbed one from Israel's playbook and is offering money to members of the Tribe who want to make aliyah to

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• Holocaust denial or alter kaker row?

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:35 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Los Angeles, Anti Semitism, Holocaust

  not care if you practice Judaism if your last name is Greenberg. To anti-Semites, you're a "Jew."I say this as a preface to what will follow, because I have no interest in spurring Alan Dershowitz to start a campaign to deny me tenure at The Journal. I am not a revisionist. I know the Holocaust happened, and I lament the fact so many Jews my

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• Question for the day

  Published: July 19, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Islam, Atheism, Christianity

  Is proselytizing a dirty word, either by design or association, and does it imply coercion or deception?

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• Another story in the Iraqi whirlwind

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Politics, World Religions, World, Judaism, Islam

  From time to time, we receive emails from people concerned about a lack of mainstream media coverage of the persecution of the ancient churches inside Iraq, an already tragic situation that is getting worse as Iraq begins to fly apart into competing Islamic states, or tribes, or whatever. This is, of course, part of a wider story in the region

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• Open source religion reporting works

  Published: July 23, 2007, 4:12 pm

  Tags: Web Tech, Journalism, Religion, People, Evangelicals, Judaism, Islam

  David Crumm, the Detroit Free Press religion writer, had the enviable task of coordinating a rather significant open-source religion journalism project that involved “forty strangers in a virtual room” talking about their faith. Wired News, a collaborator in the project, carried a summary story on July 12 that was part of a larger open

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• Praying for the Conversion of Jews

  Published: July 23, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Liturgy, Evangelization, Prayer, Christology, Theology, Catholic, Christianity, Stupidity, Conversion, Judaism, Summorum Pontificum

  Since the release of Summorum Pontificum, various talking heads have been apoplectic because the Tridentine mass includes a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of the Jews. Much ado is being made of nothing, though. (more…)

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• Texas Jewish Historical Society meets in Fort Worth

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:02 am

  Tags: Judaism

  Texas Jewish Post has an interesting account of the society's recent meeting.

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• What's Hollywood done for me lately?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:06 am

  Tags: Judaism, Los Angeles, Israel, Entertainment

  Today -- 10 weeks into the job -- I officially arrived at The Jewish Journal with my first cover story. It's about the role of Hollywood in the Jewish community, and it was a bear to report.The entertainment business was created by Jews, but the industry also helped build the LA Jewish community. Still, the widely held opinion -- "as much a part

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• Kirk Douglas reflects on his Jewish heritage

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:29 am

  Tags: Arts And Media, Celebrities, Judaism

  Forward, the Jewish weekly, has a feature on Kirk Douglas, whose new memoir, Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning, deals, among many other topics, with his latter day interest in his own Jewish identity. In the book, he writes, I feel guilty for abandoning Issur Danielovitch," his real name before he set off to become a

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