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Clearly, the unfolding nuclear drama in Iran is one of the world’s most important news stories. If that is the case, and I think it is, there is a strange and powerful ghost that is haunting almost all of the mainstream news coverage of what is happening.
What we have here is your basic story about idealistic interns who have come to Washington, D.C., to learn how to make a difference in this complex and troubled world — only with one big twist.
There have been a lot of stories in the past week about the conversion bill that was steamrolling through the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, before being tabled for the next few months. Few prospective laws in the Middle East draw much attention, but this one did, largely because of it’s potential consequences for American Jews and future American Jews.
There was a fine story in the New York Times the other day about Brooklyn, the Catholic Church and sainthood. Here’s the opening:
I always found it odd when I was at The Jewish Journal that if I used the term tikkun olam, I had to explain to readers that it was a Hebrew expression for “repairing the world.”
Good Shabbos. It’s a great day to be wearing my favorite t-shirt. But it’s a tough Sabbath to be an Ultra-Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem. (For last week’s discussion on the use of “ultra-orthodox,” click here.) Since the Israeli Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a religious girls’ school had to be integrated, the Haredim have been causing a lot of trouble in Jerusalem streets.
I love the lede on an Associated Press story this week about a California seminary’s plans to train leaders of three different faiths:
Thomas, who covered every president since the second Adams, was undone when the above footage surfaced online of Thomas telling the Jews to “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to “Poland, Germany … and America and everywhere else.”
