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• How to throw a Jewish Oscar party

  February 16, 2011 2:26am

  How do you make an Oscar party Jewish? Should there be a set ritual, like the seder? Or, like Purim, an evening filled with costumes, beauty pageants, shouting at bad guys and lots to drink? JTA’s Edmon Rodman is on the case.

• Collecting Lincoln: The making of a national treasure

  February 15, 2011 10:23pm

  Little known outside of bibliophiles and Civil War buffs, one of the greatest private collectors of works about Abraham Lincoln was a Jewish clothing manufacturer executive from Chicago named Alfred Whital Stern.

• For Justin Bieber, ‘Scooter’ and the Shema play a major presence

  February 9, 2011 8:22pm

  With the biographical documentary and concert film recounting the rise of Justin Bieber opening Feb. 11, a look at the teen sensation’s Jewish manager, Scott Samuel “Scooter” Braun, his “Jewish road dad” who introduced the Shema to the singer’s pre-concert repertoire.

• Super Sunday scores with fun and tzedakah

  February 1, 2011 6:41am

  A friendly competition between religious schools in Green Bay and Pittsburgh is part of the game plan of fun and tzedakah-oriented events being executed for adults and children on Super Sunday.

• Repairing the world, and your home, on Tu b’Shvat

  January 11, 2011 8:40pm

  The Jewish green day of Tu b’Shvat is not just the new year for trees anymore. It’s also about “tikkun olam,” repairing the world. But how about getting to that broken dishwasher first?

• Jewish football teams want a bowl of their own

  December 28, 2010 3:52am

  Has the time come for a real Jewish football league? (Note: Flag footballers need not apply.)_

• The Texas Christians of Texas Christian University: Jewish students

  December 28, 2010 3:25am

  When the football team at Texas Christian University takes the field for the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. on Saturday, some of the hometown team’s loudest fans will be Jews from the school.

• Shabbat opening on Christmas Eve (sort of)

  December 19, 2010 9:59pm

  Playing on Christmas Eve, which this year falls on Shabbat, is the imaginary film “When Malka Meets Santa.”

• Burning issue: A new order for Chanukah?

  November 27, 2010 1:57am

  Someone once proposed that we light the whole menorah on the first night, then cut back one candle each night. With the difficult economic times, has the time come for that change, columnist Edmon J. Rodman asks.

• Finding the aahs and oys of Jewish toys

  November 22, 2010 1:17am

  A new market of holiday offerings is featuring Jewish toys that flash, spin and challenge — including No Limit Texas Dreidel, a poker version of the classic top game. There’s even something for the family pet.