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I was on Chanukah Party duty (the White House and Congress) last night and knew I would regret missing Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s address at a Jewish Primary Day School fundraiser at Washington’s Sixth and I synagogue. Sure enough, Kagan delivered, and Josh Gerstein has a good post this morning at Politico.  Best nugget:  […]

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Most every Jewish kid who grew up in 1960s America looked up to Ringo Starr. He was one of us, the Jewish Beatle, the one who had been bar mitzvahed. There was just one glitch: Ringo hadn’t been bar mitzvahed. Because Ringo isn’t Jewish. But the myth of Ringo-as-Jew was so pervasive that in 1964, in […]

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