Articles from the October 11, 2013 edition
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We’re in the computer age... I recently read this in a World Jewish Congress Digest (WJC): “An independent computer lab reports that Israel was the target in the first quarter of 2013 of almost a mil...
6 Degrees (no Bacon): Jewish celebrity roundup
Italians rip Gordon-Levitt NEW YORK (JTA)—Apparently lots and lots of sex isn’t the most potentially offensive thing about Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s latest film, “Don Jon.” The Italian American...
Seeking Kin: new generation rekindles enduring bonds
The “Seeking Kin” column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. BALTIMORE (JTA)—Teenagers Mark Matsuki and Leon Feldman came to study in the Boston area this summer as strangers and l...
Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA
Report: Dayan asked Golda Meir to prepare nuclear option in ’73 (JTA)—Moshe Dayan urged Golda Meir to prepare to launch a nuclear strike during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, according to a former Israeli official’s longtime aide and confidant. Arnon Azary...
Joe Biden slammed for calling Palestinians 'least ideological and sectarian' Mideast Arabs
(JNS.org) In a speech at the conference of the self-labeled “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby J Street, Vice President Joe Biden said last Monday that the Palestinians are the “least ideological and s...
Iranian Jews in Israel Skeptical About Rouhani
Salome Worch was born in Iran, grew up and spent most of her adult life there. The daughter of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, she was registered as a Muslim in Iran’s records. Gradually, she grew more interested in her Jewish heritage, and i...
New Haggadah lessens temptation to pass over Seder
Chandler, Ariz.—Modern Jewish families that shy away from participating in the annual Passover Seder due to its typical two- to five-hour ceremony, will cheer Cass and Nellie Foster’s “Sixty-Minute Seder: Preserving the Essence of the Passover Haggad...
TV review-'The Goldbergs,' then and now
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA)—Some were psyched for the nostalgia of “The Goldbergs,” a new ABC sitcom about a boisterous, outspoken American family set in the 1980s. But Wednesday’s premiere was a little...
London's American-style JCC seeking lead role in Anglo Jewry 'renaissance'
(JTA)—At his office in London’s newly opened, $80 million Jewish community center, Raymond Simonson fumbles with a state-of-the-art telephone switchboard. “Sorry, I’m embarrassed, but we’ve only just...
