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Article 30
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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Article 29
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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Article 28
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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Article 27
• 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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Article 26
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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Article 25
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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Article 24
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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Article 23
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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Article 22
• 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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Article 21
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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Article 20
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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Article 19
• 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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Article 18
• 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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Article 17
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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Article 14
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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Article 13
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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Article 11
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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