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D.C. Rabbi Barry Freundel Arrested for Voyeurism, Suspected of Putting...
Barry Freundel, the rabbi at Kesher Israel in Washington, D.C.—a Modern Orthodox synagogue whose high-profile congregation includes Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and former Senator Joe Lieberman—was...
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Where Have All the Jewish Political Leaders Gone?
Today’s midterm elections, which have dominated the news for the past few months, appear to be one of the least “Jewish” election seasons in a long time. Despite a tumultuous summer in Israel, American...
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders Sets His Sights on the White House
The midterm elections are over, which means that it’s time for everybody’s favorite electoral sport—namely, speculating about the next big Election Day. And it looks like presidential politics may have...
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With the second season of Six Feet Under out now on DVD, I recently gave in to Netflix and spent many consecutive evenings relaxing with the dysfunctional Fisher family, the proprietors of a Los...
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Everyone knows that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) is an Orthodox Jew, and everyone knows that observant Jews don’t do work on Shabbat. But we also know that for every rule there is an exception,...
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Jeffrey Goldberg, who originally persuaded Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to write a Hanukkah song for Tablet Magazine, reports that (according to Hatch himself) Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Russ...
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• A Maryland rabbi uncovered the speech Judah Maccabee gave while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize over 2000 years ago. Its argument that peace sometimes requires war may sound familiar to those who...
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Some people have not yet forgiven the Connecticut senator for his health-care reform betrayal, apparently. Note Sen. McCain coming to his right honorable colleague’s defense following the contretemps;...
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Nachama Soloveichik, an heir to America’s leading Orthodox rabbinic dynasty, is caught between two calendars that rule her life. According to the Jewish calendar, Tuesday will mark the beginning of...
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On Tuesday afternoon, after The Scroll was already off celebrating Shavuot, President Obama met with 37 Jewish senators and congressmen at the Old Executive Office Building to reassure him of his...
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Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, doesn’t take cold calls. If you dial the headquarters of Cohen’s $12 billion fund, SAC Capital Advisors, in Stamford, Connecticut, a pleasant-voiced...
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• An Israeli official has accused Turkey of chutzpa most foul for the country’s claim to gas fields in the Mediterrenean. [JPost] • The Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat believes that 10 European Union...
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Senator Joe Lieberman is getting heaps of praise for spearheading repeal of the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. The former VP nominee apparently worked endlessly to whip the final votes for...
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Yesterday, as diplomats tend to do, Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren threw a party in his Maryland residence to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, as well as, according to embassy officials, the...
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• Awesome, awesome article about the lost (and found), famous letter from George Washington to the Jews of Rhode Island. [Forward] • In the morning, we thought that almost the entire GOP presidential...
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• Defense Minister Ehud Barak estimates that Syrian President Bashar Assad will no longer be Syrian president in six months. [AP/WP] • Ron Prosor, the new Israeli ambassador to the United Nations,...
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This morning, Sen. Joe Lieberman, from Connecticut, will endorse David Weprin, Democratic Assemblyman from New York, in the September 13 special election to fill former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s seat. In a...
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Winehouse, Katy Perry, Iran, and More
• According to her family, toxicology tests found no substances in Amy Winehouse’s system. Does this lend credence to the theory that the Jewish soul singer died from going cold turkey? [ArtsBeat] •...
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Jewish Cultural Agenda
Agenda is Tablet Magazine’s weekly listing of upcoming cultural events. Maya Rudolph, the former Saturday Night Live actress and the impressively multitalented spawn of musicians Richard Rudolph and...
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The Scroll will be dark until next Monday. L’shana tovah! • One member of the U.N. Security Council is not going along with a new resolution to sanction a regime that could be said to be brutally...
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Rep. Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican who is House Majority Leader and highest-ranked Jewish U.S. legislator ever, is starting a Super PAC. His trusted deputy chief-of-staff is devoting himself to...
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The 2012 Presidential Race Is the Most Jewish Campaign in U.S. History
Now that Rick Santorum has dropped out of the Republican primary, the long-anticipated election showdown between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama is beginning to heat up. And one thing is becoming clear...
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Enjoy the summer lull, because soon the sprint to Simchat Democracy will begin. Though the election is six months away, we can call the results now: the next Congress will have fewer Jewish members...
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Politics in the Pulpit? Rabbis Disagree Over Whether To Get Partisan With...
Chances are good that if you head to Kesher Israel in Washington, D.C., on a typical Shabbat morning for services, you’ll be praying alongside Sen. Joseph Lieberman or White House Chief of Staff Jack...
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Sundown
• As Syrian rebels begin to challenge the Assad regime’s control of the airport and the skies, calls for the United States to recognize and arm the rebels grow louder. [CNN] • As the United Nations...
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Joe Lieberman Says Goodbye to the Senate
Senator Joe Lieberman said goodbye to the Senate yesterday on the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that handed the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000. The 12 years between Al Gore’s last stand...
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Jack Lew: The First Orthodox Jewish Treasury Secretary
Jack Lew, President Obama’s current chief of staff and his pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in the history of the U.S. government. It’s a distinction that imposes some...
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Sidwell Friends? More like Yidwell Friends—a School for the Kids of D.C.’s...
The scene at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital was pretty much like what you’d expect to find at any school like it just before Passover. Kindergarteners sat in a circle learning...
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Politico reports that Joe Lieberman, who retired from his senate position in December 2012, is heading to the New York offices of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman as a senior counsel: The former...
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Bernie Sanders Becomes the First Jew to Win a Presidential Primary
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore selected Joe Lieberman, then a Democratic Senator from Connecticut, to be his vice presidential running mate. They lost to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and...
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This Week on Unorthodox, Author Eric Weiner and Oxford English Dictionary...
This week on Unorthodox: Israeli settlers and Palestinians work together … to grow marijuana. Our Jewish guest is Eric Weiner, former NPR Jerusalem bureau chief and author of the new book The Geography...
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On Unorthodox, Senator Joe Lieberman and 'Intractable' Podcast Host Skyler Inman
This week on Unorthodox, we’re celebrating Lag Ba’Omer! Our Jewish guest is Senator Joe Lieberman, whose new book, With Liberty & Justice: The 50-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai, highlights the...
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Who Would Joe Lieberman Vote for in 2020? Not Who You'd Think.
Joe Lieberman, the senator from Connecticut until 2013, has always been a coy mistress with his fellow Democrats, on most matters a staunch liberal, on foreign policy a sharp-feathered hawk, a good...
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Listen: When John McCain Hilariously Announced He Was Converting to Judaism
In the wake of Sen. John McCain’s passing, many commentators have eulogized his complex political and personal legacy, situating the man in the sweep of American history. But amid all the somber and...
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