Caine’s Arcade Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Brad A. Greenberg “>Caine’s Arcade</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/nirvan <view-source:http://vimeo.com/nirvan>“>Nirvan Mullick</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com <view-source:http://vimeo.com/>“>Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>No real religion angle here, but the story of Caine’s Arcade is absurdly inspiring. Everyone should watch this—or go to East LA to check it out, like my friend Tim Yee, who is a <a href="http://lapastor.com/2012/04/13/planning-a-visit-to-caines-arcade/ <view-source:http://lapastor.com/2012/04/13/planning-a-visit-to-caines-arcade/>” title=”pastor in downtown LA” target=”_blank”>pastor in downtown LA</a>, did today. (So I guess this is at least religion adjacent.)</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103099/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Caine’s Arcade</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-103100 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-israel category-must_reads tag-rosners-domain ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-103100" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/103100/april-15-2012/" rel="bookmark">April 15, 2012</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/103100/april-15-2012/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/united-states/must_reads/" rel="category tag">Must Reads</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Shmuel Rosner" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/shmuel-rosner/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Shmuel Rosner </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2111828,00.html#ixzz1rrCZP6sW" title="A Tale of Two Uprisings" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Tale of Two Uprisings</a></p> <p>Syrian refugees who found sanctuary in Libya talk to Abigail Hauslohner of <b>Time </b>about the differences between the revolts against the rules of Muammar Gadhafi and Bashar Assad. </p> <blockquote> <p><b>[T]he Syrians who have fled Homs for the relative safety of their Arab Spring counterpart believe there’s a far more sinister reason that Homs is not Benghazi. “It has been 13 months, but no one has helped us because it’s not in their interest to do so,” says Ammar, a Syrian refugee in Darnah, who declines to give his last name because his parents remain in Homs. “Libya has gas and oil, but we have none of that.” His friend Mohamed Tarek Ziad puts it differently: “Libyans can pay for their war. They can pay NATO back.” </b></p> <p></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/news-277457-what-has-happened-to-egypts-revolutionby-hossein-turner-durham.html" title="What has happened to Egypt’s revolution?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What has happened to Egypt’s ‘revolution’?</a></p> <p>The uprising in Egypt did not really achieve any significant changes, with the army still in control of much of the country and increasingly in cahoots with the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Hossein Turner Durham in <b>Zaman</b>.</p> <p><b></p> <blockquote> <p>The members of the army who were loyal to Mubarak still effectively control the country, and it seems they have been willing to work out deals with former rivals, such as the Muslim Brotherhood party. Was this really a revolution, or is it time for the movement to oust the entire army from its influence on politics and business?</p> <p></p></blockquote> <p></b></p> <p><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/new-breed-islamist-6779" title="A New Breed of Islamist" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A New Breed of Islamist</a></p> <p>Writing in <b>the National Interest</b>, Ahmed Charai takes a look at Morocco’s relatively successful blending of secular democracy and political Islam.</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Morocco’s Islamists won this year’s elections on an electoral platform of cooperation with the West, tourism and global commerce, a moderate foreign policy and individual rights. They will now be held accountable to an electoral base demanding the fulfillment of these promises. Whether Islamists in other Arab countries prove committed to the same democratic principles is a matter of chance; in Morocco, it’s the outcome of a history of moderation.</b></p> <p></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4215798,00.html" title="Stop yelling at Israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stop yelling at Israel</a></p> <p></p> <p>Critics of Israel would do well to brush up on their knowledge of the country before expressing their opinions so vocally, writes Chas Newkey-Burden for <b>Ynet</b>. </p> <blockquote> <p><b>Western debate over Israel’s position on the Iranian nuclear programme is symptomatic of a wider reality that Israel faces. More so than any other country, Israel is the one about which outsiders who know little nevertheless speak lots. Ask an average Briton or American what he or she thinks about, say, Sri Lanka’s war with the Tamil Tigers, the nomadic hostilities in Sudan or India’s battle with the Maoists and most will freely admit they do not know enough to comment.</b></p> <p></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1248" title="Not the Best of All Possible Worlds" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Not the Best of All Possible Worlds</a></p> <p>The internationally approved plan for Syria was doomed to failure from the outset, and the Obama administration is still stalling, writes Adam Garfinkle in <b>the American Interest</b>. </p> <blockquote> <p><b> It is becoming ever more difficult, however, for the Administration to pretend that Annan’s diplomacy, or any other kind of diplomacy, is going to make this problem go away. The Administration remains in a logically impossible and an increasingly embarrassing situation, having demanded that Assad step down but then having subordinated its policy to Russian diplomacy, even though, as everyone knows, Russia is Assad’s main supporter in this crisis.</b></p> <p></p></blockquote> <p> </p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/103100/april-15-2012/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">April 15, 2012</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-103101 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-103101" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103101/" rel="bookmark">Tennessee’s ‘Monkey Bill’ constitutional?</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103101/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default">Uncategorized</span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Brad A. Greenberg" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/bradg/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Brad A. Greenberg </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>In Tennessee, home of the infamous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial <view-source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial>” title=”Scopes Monkey Trial” target=”_blank”>Scopes Monkey Trial</a>, the legislature has overwhelmingly passed a controversial law that will permit teachers to include creationism in their science curriculum. The official bill summary states:</p> <blockquote> <p>This bill prohibits the state board of education and any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, director of schools, school system administrator, or principal or administrator from prohibiting any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught, such as evolution and global warming. This bill also requires such persons and entities to endeavor to:</p> <p>(1) Create an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues; and</p> <p>(2) Assist teachers to find effective ways to present the science curriculum as it addresses scientific controversies.</p> </blockquote> <p>The “Monkey Bill,” as it was known, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/04/11/tennessee-monkey-bill-becomes-unsigned-law/?mod=WSJBlog <view-source:http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/04/11/tennessee-monkey-bill-becomes-unsigned-law/?mod=WSJBlog>” title=”became law last week” target=”_blank”>became law last week</a> without Gov. Bill Haslam’s signature; though he disapproved of the law, he saw no point in vetoing it because the legislature had the votes to override. Tennessee now joins Louisiana, which passed a similar law in 2008 for the purpose of promoting “<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/06/louisiana-passes-first-antievolution-academic-freedom-law.ars <view-source:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/06/louisiana-passes-first-antievolution-academic-freedom-law.ars>” title=”academic freedom” target=”_blank”>academic freedom</a>.” Others, including <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/01/23/a-critique-of-evolution-proposed-in-oklahoma/ <view-source:http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/01/23/a-critique-of-evolution-proposed-in-oklahoma/>” title=”Oklahoma” target=”_blank”>Oklahoma</a>, also are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Freedom_bills <view-source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Freedom_bills>” title=”considering” target=”_blank”>considering</a> such a law.</p> <p>Of course, laws permitting the teaching of creationism in public schools is nothing new, and there is plenty of debate about whether it is even about academic freedom. (Is anyone teaching <a href="http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/12/5807.ars <view-source:http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/12/5807.ars>” title=”evolution-based creationism” target=”_blank”>evolution-based creationism</a>?) The ACLU and state teachers union <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/us-usa-education-tennessee-idUSBRE83A00720120411 <view-source:http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/us-usa-education-tennessee-idUSBRE83A00720120411>” title=”opposed the bill” target=”_blank”>opposed the Tennessee bill</a>, and I expect constitutional challenges to follow.</p> <p>But this law is not clearly unconstitutional—in fact, it probably passes muster.</p> <p>I’ve yet to see in the reporting on this story comments from legal thinkers—in news reports, even the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have been quieter than usual about the law’s constitutionality. So I’m going to give a little seat-of-my-pants legal analysis, which is, admittedly, a lot more lacking then <a href="www.uclalawreview.org/wordpress/?p=2866 <view-source:http://localhost/exporter/www.uclalawreview.org/wordpress/?p=2866>” title=”when I actually research the law” target=”_blank”>when I actually research the law</a>. Here goes.</p> <p>On it’s Website, <a href="http://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/monkeying-around-tenn-governor-refuses-to-confront-unconstitutional <view-source:http://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/monkeying-around-tenn-governor-refuses-to-confront-unconstitutional>” title=”this” target=”_blank”>Americans United claims</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A school district somewhere in the state is going to implement these reckless policies and get sued. The courts have been clear on this. Public schools cannot teach creationism, which is a religious concept favored by some fundamentalist Christians, in science class.</p> </blockquote> <p>But that is not entirely accurate.</p> <p>In the past, the U.S. Supreme Court, under the Establishment Clause, has struck down laws banning the teaching of evolution or requiring that creation be taught alongside evolution. But this law arguably, lacks a primary purpose of promoting religion—and it’s possible that the law was designed to promote belief in creation or to urge students to think critically about evolution or to acknowledge parents, voters and taxpayers who think evolution is just a theory. That doesn’t mean that some legislators didn’t vote yes because they believed the law had a primary religious purpose; it just means that the legislature didn’t vote yes for that reason, or that it can’t be proven to have voted yes for that reason. Further, the bill doesn’t refer to religion or beliefs or the Bible, so it’s unlikely that a court would find the law to be an endorsement of religion.</p> <p>However, some lower courts have ruled against the constitutionality of laws that directly attack evolution. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District <view-source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District>” title=”Dover school board” target=”_blank”>Dover school board</a> case—“<a href="http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/12/5807.ars <view-source:http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/12/5807.ars>” title=”intelligent design’s Waterloo” target=”_blank”>intelligent design’s Waterloo</a>”—is the most notable from the past decade, but there have been <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2006/12/6343.ars <view-source:http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2006/12/6343.ars>” title=”others” target=”_blank”>others</a>.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103101/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Tennessee’s ‘Monkey Bill’ constitutional?</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-103102 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-103102" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/103102/israel-and-the-world-pt-3-weekly-news-from-israel/" rel="bookmark">Israel and the world Pt. 3- weekly news from Israel</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/103102/israel-and-the-world-pt-3-weekly-news-from-israel/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/blogs/" rel="category tag">Blogs</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Noga Gur-Arieh" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/noga-gur-arieh/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Noga Gur-Arieh </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>* Aaron Alexander was a victim of a violent event, probably on a hatred basis. On the night of the Seder, as the young man left his synagogue in Ukraine, a group of John Does attacked him with a glass bottle. He suffered severe brain damage caused by bleeding and skull fractures. The investigation is still going, but the main suspicion is that the attack was made by an anti-Semitic group. Alexander was taken to Israel, along with a number of Israeli experts who arrived to Ukraine on a special flight, where he was admitted. His condition is severe, yet stable, and he is under constant care.</p> <p> * A new and shocking story, which was in the headlines of the papers for almost a whole week, revealed some dark secrets behind the scenes of the ultra- Orthodox (Haredi) website, “Haredi Haredim.” The owner of the website, along with two of his senior employees, is suspected of extorting public figures, mostly rabbis and politicians, by publishing articles that portray them in a negative light, and making them pay tens of thousands of Shekels for the removal of those publications. The accusations were backed up by several witnesses. The suspects deny the allegations, claiming that “the business transactions were completely legitimate.” Moreover, their attorneys claim this false accusation was set up by the police, after the website published a photo of one of the police chiefs dressed in an SS uniform. Now, almost a week after the affair was published for the first time, the fraud is suspected to have spread outside of Israel, and got to communities in other countries, probably the U.S.A.</p> <p> * The Anne Frank House, in cooperation with the Hollandsche Schouwburg – the theatre in Amsterdam used as a deportation center during the Nazi occupation – has published a graphic novel, which tells a story of a fictional Jewish family living in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation and the years of the Holocaust. This book was announced to be a new teaching aid for teachers, while teaching the younger pupils about the holocaust. This book will soon come out in Israel and will probably be used for the same cause here as well. The publishing of that book, which describes the horrors of the Holocaust in somewhat a child-friendly version, caused many opposing reactions by people believing there is no room for “softening” the darkest time in the history of the Jewish people and that the Holocaust can never become a “child-friendly” story. As a reaction, the publishers mentioned the book doesn’t spare the mass murder and destruction, yet avoids some specifics which currently prevent children from falling asleep during the days prior to Holocaust day.</p> <p> * According to new data provided by the American Immigration services, the number of Israelis legally immigrating to the US in 2011 (3826) is the lowest since 2003 (2741). This is a 35% decrease since the highlight of emigrants- in 2006. According to attorney Liam Schwartz, who specializes in American Immigration laws, the reason for the decrease is probably due to the unpleasing state of the American economy.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/103102/israel-and-the-world-pt-3-weekly-news-from-israel/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Israel and the world Pt. 3- weekly news from Israel</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-103104 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-103104" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103104/" rel="bookmark">Why Jews care about their MLB stars</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103104/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default">Uncategorized</span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Brad A. Greenberg" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/bradg/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Brad A. Greenberg </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>The summer game is back in full swing, and the <a href="http://www.dodgerthoughts.com/2012/04/15/crazy-stats-from-a-crazy-start/ <view-source:http://www.dodgerthoughts.com/2012/04/15/crazy-stats-from-a-crazy-start/>” title=”Dodgers have jumped out” target=”_blank”>Dodgers have jumped out</a> to an 8-1 start. (I’m thrilled, but <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/bradagreenberg/status/191369110536470529 <view-source:https://twitter.com/#!/bradagreenberg/status/191369110536470529>” title=”not making too much of it” target=”_blank”>not making too much of it</a> considering the <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/dodgers_were_the_chosen_team_today_20100725/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/dodgers_were_the_chosen_team_today_20100725/>” title=”Boys in Blue” target=”_blank”>Boys in Blue</a> have played only the Padres and Pirates so far.) And this brings up a favorite topic on this blog.</p> <p>I write often about Jews in sports, and when I do, it’s most often about Jews in baseball. It’s mostly a numbers game—they’re just aren’t that many <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/jordan_farmar_nbas_lone_jew_looks_to_rebound_20090427/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/jordan_farmar_nbas_lone_jew_looks_to_rebound_20090427/>” title=”Jewish basketball stars” target=”_blank”>Jewish basketball stars</a> these days or in <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/the_patriots_jewish_all-purpose_player_20111121/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/the_patriots_jewish_all-purpose_player_20111121/>” title=”football” target=”_blank”>football</a> ever.</p> <p>But baseball has long been filled with Jewish stars. From <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/remembering_greenberg/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/remembering_greenberg/>” title=”Greenberg to Koufax” target=”_blank”>Greenberg</a> to <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/koufax_got_swindled_by_madoff_too_20090204/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/koufax_got_swindled_by_madoff_too_20090204/>” title=”Koufax” target=”_blank”>Koufax</a> to <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/the_lost_jewish_athletes/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/the_lost_jewish_athletes/>” title=”Shawn Green” target=”_blank”>Shawn Green</a> to <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/ryan_braun_mlbs_jewish_mvp_named_nl_most_valuable_player_20111122/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/ryan_braun_mlbs_jewish_mvp_named_nl_most_valuable_player_20111122/>” title=”last year’s NL MVP” target=”_blank”>last year’s NL MVP</a> (and <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/brad_ausmus_the_new_jew_in_dodger_blue_20090522/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/brad_ausmus_the_new_jew_in_dodger_blue_20090522/>” title=”lots of guys” target=”_blank”>lots of guys</a> in <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/youkilis_talks_about_pressure_of_being_a_jewish_ballplayer_20110711/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/youkilis_talks_about_pressure_of_being_a_jewish_ballplayer_20110711/>” title=”between” target=”_blank”>between</a>). This has provided a <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/braun_and_youkilis_pride_of_the_tribe_having_mvp_seasons/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/braun_and_youkilis_pride_of_the_tribe_having_mvp_seasons/>” title=”lot of blog fodder” target=”_blank”>lot of fodder</a> for this blog and for Peter Miller’s documentary “<a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/baseball_and_jewish_greatness_20110410/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/baseball_and_jewish_greatness_20110410/>” title=”Jews and Baseball” target=”_blank”>Jews and Baseball</a>.”</p> <p>Why do Jews care about MOTs playing the national pastime? Here is Peter Ephross’ theory, via <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/22/3092293/talkin-baseball-jewish-major-leaguers-and-why-we-care-about-them <view-source:http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/22/3092293/talkin-baseball-jewish-major-leaguers-and-why-we-care-about-them>” title=”JTA” target=”_blank”>JTA</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The story of Jews in baseball goes beyond the well-trod turf of the “High Holidays dilemma.” Rebutting anti-Semitism and fighting hecklers was not uncommon for Jewish players, even when the hecklers were on the opposing bench. In particular Rosen, a former amateur boxer, wasn’t shy about taking on hecklers.</p> <p>(skip)</p> <p>Pride in being Jewish is one thing, but being actively Jewish is another—most Jewish players, like most American Jews, weren’t observant. Many were raised Orthodox—Al Schacht says his mother wanted him to be a cantor—but none seemed to have maintained this level of observance as adults. It makes sense: Eating kosher food and maintaining any sense of Shabbat, which restricts behaviors from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday, would be impossible while pursuing a professional baseball career.</p> <p>The collective accomplishments of Jewish Major Leaguers likely would surprise most people. Jews, who made up about 3 percent of the U.S. population during the 20th century, made up just 0.8 percent of baseball players from 1871 to 2002, the latest year for which the nonprofit organization Jewish Major Leaguers has complete figures. But Jewish players on the whole have fared better than average. They hit 2,032 homers—0.9 percent of the Major League total, and a bit higher than would be expected by their percentage of all players. Their .265 batting average is 3 percentage points higher than the overall average.</p> <p>Jewish pitchers are 20 games above .500, with six of baseball’s first 230 no-hitters (four by Sandy Koufax, including a perfect game, and two by Ken Holtzman). The group ERA is 3.66, slightly lower than the 3.77 by all Major Leaguer hurlers. With the recent influx of top-flight Jewish Major Leaguers—Kevin Youkilis, Ryan Braun and Ian Kinsler come to mind—the statistics even may have improved since 2002.</p> </blockquote> <p>Read the <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/22/3092293/talkin-baseball-jewish-major-leaguers-and-why-we-care-about-them <view-source:http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/22/3092293/talkin-baseball-jewish-major-leaguers-and-why-we-care-about-them>” title=”rest here” target=”_blank”>rest here</a>.</p> <p>I agree that the social messages matter, but the bigger factor for most Jews, especially young Jews (or men for whom sports keep them young at heart) is just seeing someone from a similar background out there on the field. It’s not so much about breaking down stereotypes—<a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/brains_and_braun_hebrew_hammer_instills_pride_in_the_tribe_20080925//thememo <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/brains_and_braun_hebrew_hammer_instills_pride_in_the_tribe_20080925//thememo>” title=”Ryan Braun is not Abe Foxman” target=”_blank”>Ryan Braun is not Abe Foxman</a>—as it is about providing a hero in the sports world.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103104/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Why Jews care about their MLB stars</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-103105 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-103105" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/103105/one-hundred-great-jewish-books-three-millennia-of-jewish-conversation-by-rabbi-larry-hoffman/" rel="bookmark">“One Hundred Great Jewish Books: Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation” by Rabbi Larry Hoffman</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/103105/one-hundred-great-jewish-books-three-millennia-of-jewish-conversation-by-rabbi-larry-hoffman/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/blogs/" rel="category tag">Blogs</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Rabbi John Rosove" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/rabbi-john-rosove/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Rabbi John Rosove </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>I have known Rabbi Larry Hoffman for 35 years as my teacher and friend – and like fine wine, he just gets better with age. Larry is as comprehensive a scholar and as keen an observer of the contemporary Jewish condition as there is in America today.</p> <p>His most recent book (his 32nd) is <i>One Hundred Great Jewish Books: Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation</i> (published by Blue Bridge, 2011). Larry has read so much and seems not to have forgotten anything he has ever learned. An excellent writer, Rabbi Hoffman is a superb synthesizer of the vast corpus of Jewish material available.</p> <p>This book excites even as it exhausts. Larry’s list is a veritable guide to among the greatest Jewish books ever written over the course of 3500 years. As he reviews each work in 3 or 4 pages, he shines a light not only on the importance of the book itself as a representative of an aspect of the Jewish whole, but articulates the most important ideas and developments each brought to the fore in their respective times and places. Throughout this work Larry asks serious questions about what we have been as a people, where our greatest ideas have come from, who we are today as a result, and what we must do going forward.</p> <p>For those who might be worried about the viability of the Jewish people – Don’t! We are not an “ever-dying people” (as the Jewish philosopher Simon Rawidowicz once remarked). To the contrary, Larry’s book attests that the life of the Jewish heart, mind and soul is ever vital.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/103105/one-hundred-great-jewish-books-three-millennia-of-jewish-conversation-by-rabbi-larry-hoffman/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">“One Hundred Great Jewish Books: Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation” by Rabbi Larry Hoffman</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-103107 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-103107" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103107/" rel="bookmark">Shaima Alawadi murder no longer a hate crime?</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103107/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default">Uncategorized</span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Brad A. Greenberg" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/bradg/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Brad A. Greenberg </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>I missed a big development in the death of Shaima Alawadi. (Thanks to George for <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/kony_2012_part_ii_--_beyond_famous_20120405/#comments <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/kony_2012_part_ii_--_beyond_famous_20120405/#comments>” title=”pointing it out” target=”_blank”>pointing it out</a>.) When news broke last month that the mother of five had died after being beaten to death in her home,<a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/mother_of_five_beaten_to_death_for_being_a_muslim_immigrant_20120325/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/mother_of_five_beaten_to_death_for_being_a_muslim_immigrant_20120325/>” title=”one detail of the crime scene” target=”_blank”> one detail of the crime scene</a> garnered international attention and sent a shockwave through Muslim immigrant communities:</p> <blockquote> <p>The note found next to her body reportedly said: “Go back to your own country. You’re a terrorist.”</p> </blockquote> <p>But as the police conducted their investigation, new details emerged, as this piece from <i><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/07/shaima_alawadis_murder_hate_crime_or_honor_killing/ <view-source:http://www.salon.com/2012/04/07/shaima_alawadis_murder_hate_crime_or_honor_killing/>” title=”Salon” target=”_blank”>Salon</a></i> reports:</p> <blockquote> <p>On April 4, an affidavit for a search warrant about the murder was “accidentally released,” according to the New York Times. The San Diego Union-Tribune, which first received the document, claimed it shows a “family in turmoil and cast doubt on the likelihood that her slaying was a hate crime.” Alawadi was said to be planning on leaving her husband, based on blank divorce papers found in her vehicle. Last November, police investigating reports of two people possibly having sex in a car found Fatima with a 21-year-old man. After her mother was called to pick her up, Fatima allegedly jumped out of the moving car at 35 mph. While being treated at a hospital for her injuries the court records state, “Police were informed by paramedics and hospital staff that Fatima Alhimidi said she was being forced to marry her cousin and did not want to do so she jumped out of the vehicle.”</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/iraqi-hate-crime-murder-probe-raises-questions-about-daughte.html <view-source:http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/iraqi-hate-crime-murder-probe-raises-questions-about-daughte.html>” title=”KGTV further reported” target=”_blank”>KGTV further reported</a> that while Fatima was being interviewed by investigators, she received a text message that read, “The detective will find out tell them cnt (can’t) talk.”</p> <p>It’s now a lot less clear whether police are investigating a hate crime or a collapsing family. (“Collapsing” doesn’t seem to do it justice but I can’t think of anything extreme enough to convey family dynamics that could be so broken as to motivate matricide.) The latter, like the <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/npr_buffalo_beheading_domestic_violence_not_honor_killing_20110221/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/npr_buffalo_beheading_domestic_violence_not_honor_killing_20110221/>” title=”Muslim TV exec who beheaded his wife” target=”_blank”>Muslim TV exec who beheaded his wife</a> because she wanted a divorce, would make Alawadi’s death more a crime against women, Nina Burleigh writes for <i><a href="http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/10/shaima-alawadis-murder-a-hate-crime-against-women/?xid=gonewsedit <view-source:http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/10/shaima-alawadis-murder-a-hate-crime-against-women/?xid=gonewsedit>” title=”Time” target=”_blank”>Time</a></i>:</p> <blockquote> <p>If female freedom turns out to be at the heart of the murder, it will highlight not so much the intolerance of Muslim immigrants by Americans, but the cultural restrictions on women in those communities and what happens when those restrictions clash with the relatively permissive rules of Western society.</p> </blockquote> <p>That remains to be seen.</p> <p>As for Fatima and Alawadi’s husband: They were last in Iraq, where they traveled for her burial.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/103107/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Shaima Alawadi murder no longer a hate crime?</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> </div> </main><!-- #main --> </div><!-- #primary --> </div> <!-- ast-container --> </div><!-- #content --> <footer data-elementor-type="footer" data-elementor-id="354962" class="elementor elementor-354962 elementor-location-footer" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-16ff2513 elementor-section-full_width printhide elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="16ff2513" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-306cf8ff" data-id="306cf8ff" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-73c841ca elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="73c841ca" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-41944ee6" data-id="41944ee6" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-58f0ac64 rm20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-site-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="58f0ac64" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-site-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com">Jewish Journal</a></h2> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-29de7e30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="29de7e30" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> Connect. 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