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Posted in: At least 139 of the Forbes 400 are Jewish
Will you be updating the list in October, 2010?
Posted in: Adam Bronfman: In re-crafting conversion bill, Israel must conclude, 'We are all Jews'
Adam Bronfman is married to a non-Jewish woman and they have 4 children. Mrs. Bronfman never converted. Can the holy rollers in Israel afford to alienate American Jews such as Adam Bronfman?
Posted in: From the Chronicle: Small endowments fared better than large ones in 2009
The list should have included the Jim Joseph Foundation. It is larger than most of the entries on the list and it definitely supports Jewish programs. What about the Bernard Osher Foundation and the Koret Foundation? Why were they left off? Someone is guilty of sloppy journalism.
Posted in: Phyllis Cook: Next year could be tougher for nonprofits
She might have mentioned the fact that the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year. That giant sucking sound you hear next year will be the discretionary income moving from Jewish doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants and investment bankers to Washington. The Medicare taxes scheduled to go into effect in 2013 will be another hit on Jewish income.
Posted in: Jewish groups praising health care reform bill’s passage
I hope they like the health care bill as much when the tax increases start kicking in. Add in the expected reduction or elimination of the Bush tax cuts starting in 2011 and the tax increases that are likely to be part of any resolution of the Social Security funding problem and it's enough to make a Jewish trust fund baby cry into his latte, unless his trust fund was already wiped out by Madoff.
Posted in: Man on a mission to save the Jewish deli
"Prostrate" should read "prostate". Here is some good eating advice from Jewish author Michael Pollan's book "In Defense of Food: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." From a review of his book: "By which Pollan means: Eat natural food, the kind your grandmother served (and not because she was so wise, but because the food industry had not yet learned that the big money was in processing, not harvesting). Use meat sparingly. Eat your greens, the leafier and more varied the better." Even if you have excellent health insurance, it is no fund spending time in a hospital.
Posted in: Man on a mission to save the Jewish deli
Jewish deli, for the most part, is not very healthy food, even if it is certified kosher. I suspect that it contributes to obesity, heart attacks, prostrate cancer and all sorts of other undesirable outcomes. Save Jewish lives, not Jewish delis. Eat healthy!
Posted in: Holocaust films keep coming, despite prediction of their demise
During the 1930's and early 1940's, the major American film studios wouldn't touch Nazi persecution of the Jews. "Casablanca", released in 1943 by Jewish owned Warner Brothers, made no references to Jews, although undoubtedly the most desperate refugees in those days were Jewish. "Mrs. Miniver", released by Warner Brothers in 1942, had no problem including Anglican church services in the film, but none of the characters played Jewish parts. I guess Hollywood did not want to look too Jewish in those days and until the end of 1941, there was the German market for American films to think about. Germany was among the largest foreign markets for US films even before WWII. When the public stops buying tickets to see Holocaust -themed movies, the film studios will stop producing them. I recently finished reading "Four Girls from Berlin" by Marianne Meyerhoff. One of the "girls" is Meryerhoff's mother, a passenger on the ill-fated St. Louis who is sent back to Europe but is able to escape her detention in Holland. She eventually makes it to the US. If the book is turned into a movie, I will go see it, or at least rent the DVD. Then there is the story of Daniel Mendelsohn's great uncle Shmuel who was unsuccessful in leaving Poland and perished with the rest of his immediate family in the Holocaust. Maybe that story ("The Lost") has the makings of a good movie as well.
Posted in: Conservative rabbi in Georgia sues over kosher law
To Will: If the beef suppliers were lying on such a massive scale, I think they would have been found out by now. In the meantime, I will continue to rely on the ingredients listed on the labels. Perhaps one day, the rabbis certifying kosher food products will exclude from certification food products which have harmful chemicals in them, such as sodium nitrate and MSG. Then the kosher designation will be more relevant to me.
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Updated 02/09/12 @ 05:54PM EST
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- A truck driving calves from Eilat to the Golan Heights was hijacked into the West Bank.
- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
Posted in: Jewish, Republican, pro-gay rights
05/15/11 09:22 AM
I'd like to think that these Jewish Republicans (or former Republicans) are backing gay marriage because they oppose discrimination. But maybe they have come to realize that a government that denies rights to gays today can take easily take them away from rich Jewish hedge fund traders tomorrow. Just in case you are not up on your Nazi history, non-aryans (Jews) were not permitted to serve in the German armed forces as of July, 1935. Marriage between aryans and Jews was forbidden under the Nuremberg Laws of September, 1935. Those laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship.