My lede should be that a national retailer apologized for featuring a Jewish woman in its catalog. That would not be totally correct though. Heidi Stevens in The Chicago Tribune lambasted apparel...
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Dershowitz Sells Out (Judaica), Drake Sings Out Ashkenazy, and More News Timbits
The Wall Street Journal reports that famed defense attorney, author, and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz (pictured above) is selling out of many of his Judaica holdings...
Oxford Resignation, Transgender Minyan Rules, and Other News Tidbits
An Oxford University student newspaper reported this week that Alex Chalmers, co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) resigned from office after the OULC decided to endorse Israel...
Oscar Nominees Might Lose A Statue, But They Win Ten Nights on Rehov Sheinkin
Goodbye Birthright Hello Spotlight This year, 26 of the top category Oscar nominees and presenters will get gift bags containing among other things a coupon for a tour of Tokyo, sessions with a...
Will JNF and UJA run Superbowl50 Ads?
Let’s assume 500,000 Jewish households will watch the Superbowl50 from Levi’s Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area. If a philanthropy ad played for 30 seconds, and it generated 20,000...
Obama Brunches and Speaks on ‘We Are All Jews’
The opening of this year’s 2016 National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton sounded weird to my ears. In New York City you don’t normally hear people saying that they will “pray on that,” or...