Should Chanukah in Israel be more commercialized?
Orit Arfa
December 12, 2014
I have a confession to make. (Well, maybe “confession” isn’t exactly the best word to use.) Forgive me, Jewish mother, for I have sinned
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December 12, 2014
‘Interview’ screenwriter Dan Sterling: Fallout from comedy about Kim Jong-un isn’t so funny
Naomi Pfefferman
December 12, 2014
Iran hackers may target U.S. energy, defense firms, FBI warns
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned U.S. businesses to be on the alert for a sophisticated Iranian hacking operation whose targets include defense contractors, energy firms and educational institutions, according to a confidential agency document.
Three teens shot outside Portland, Oregon, high school
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2014
Three teenagers were shot and wounded on Friday near a Portland, Oregon, alternative high school, police said, and officers were searching for a suspect who ran from the scene following the gunfire.
The spiritual challenge of centrism
Yossi Klein Halevi
December 12, 2014
I moved to Jerusalem in 1982 and have now lived in Israel longer than I’ve lived outside it.
Q&A with Yossi Klein Halevi: Jewish extremists endanger Israel’s control of Jerusalem
Jared Sichel
December 12, 2014
In 1972, when Yossi Klein Halevi began writing a book that 23 years later would become his “Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist,” he was just 19 and allied with the extremist right wing of the Free Soviet Jewry movement.
Why Chanukah matters
Jared Sichel
December 12, 2014
There’s a certain narrative about Chanukah that has become near conventional wisdom among American Jews, and it goes like this:
Deconstructing the latke: A user’s guide
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2014
Latkes, doughnuts and fritters — in Jewish homes, everyone’s frying this month, much as we have been for the last 2,000 years or so.
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