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Format: 2013-05-26
Format: 2013-05-26

Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Jews

I have just returned from “Visitor’s Day” at my daughter’s camp. In America, youngsters often go off to a rural setting where they enjoy a month or two in an environment of structured play. It is extremely common for ...

BlogThe View from the Hudson
Ron Marans

Che cosa è accaduto agli ebrei d’Egitto?

Camminando nelle strade del Cairo non diresti mai che fino alla prima metà del 20esimo secolo questa metropoli è stata la patria di decine di migliaia di ebrei. Nella centralissima Al Adly Street fa ancora bella mostra una maestosa ...

BlogUrban Cairo
Elisa Pierandrei

“I grillini? Più pericolosi del fascismo. Meglio emigrare in Israele”

Pacifici-Grillo, è scontro tra comunità ebraica e M5S

L’intervista a Haaretz, la ferma reazione di Grillo e la smentita. Per capire cos’è successo davvero

In Bed with Rick Perry

I heard an amazing interview on NPR's Fresh Air show last week. (Yes, just to fulfill the stereotype, I listen to public radio podcasts on my iPhone while driving my electric hybrid car.) For decades, many Zionists in the Diaspora and indeed ...

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Ron Marans

All in the Family

I first heard about Rabbi Capers Funnye during the last presidential race, when it came out that the current First Lady, Michelle Obama's cousin was a rabbi of a large synagogue in Chicago. But in reading a recent interview that Rabbi Funnye ...

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Ron Marans

The View from the Hudson, from a Jew Near the Hudson

Being Jewish in America is a little like being Italian. Wait. Hear me out. I don’t mean that Italian Americans and Jewish Americans are alike ethnically. That’s something you hear a lot here in the U.S., but mostly from Jews rather ...

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Ron Marans

Kveling or a Shodah?

For some reason, Jews, even most assimilated ones, look to well known Jews as some kind of barometer of how we’re doing. When Sandy Kofax was pitching baseball, things were good. When Bernie Madoff and Lloyd Blankfein and the other ...

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Ron Marans

Who’s Asking?

I’m surprising myself, mentioning Israel so soon after launching this blog. I swore that The View from the Hudson would be about more than that – and it will. It’s just that I have recently finished listening to a fantastically ...

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Ron Marans

Occupy Judaism? Occupy Judaism!

I had commented last week that the cool kids down on Wall Street were going to have to skip their shabbat meal for Yom Kippur.  I was right about the meal part, but I learned earlier today that there was an amazing "happening" -- ...

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Ron Marans
Lettura

«Gli ebrei sono una razza», le nuove teorie genetiche che fanno discutere Israele

La storia è piena di ebrei con un’intelligenza straordinaria. Un caso? Studi di genetica, in Israele

Cristina Tognaccini

Where is the Religious LEFT?

We have been hearing for decades about the religious right. It’s almost accepted as gospel (pun intended) that being religious and being conservative are synonymous. But it hasn’t always been this way. And it still isn’t. Think ...

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Ron Marans

The Cruelest Cut

When Jews and Muslims put their heads together, there’s nothing they can’t achieve. Yesterday, a California judge ruled that a ballot question attempting to establish a law making circumcisions illegal in the city of San Francisco ...

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Ron Marans

My Brilliant Peace Plan

    Well, with the possible vote proclaiming Palestine to be a state seemingly imminent (as opposed to its current status as non-voting observer in the UN), Israel seems to be increasing their long overdue PR campaign. (Just to get ...

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Ron Marans

The Final Days of the Pushy Yid?

You know how these things happen: About a week ago I saw Barney’s Version, the adaptation of the 1997 Mordecai Richler novel. While watching it, I realized that I hadn’t seen the other great adaptation of Richler’s work, The ...

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Ron Marans

Education, Education, Education

Following up on last week’s post about the Wisconsin Republican recall elections: Two Democrats faced recall this week, but prevailed. In other words, the Republicans did not increase their tiny majority in that legislative body. Again, ...

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Ron Marans

Grow Up!

The "Occupy" movement continues to gain traction. In addition to the NYC protests, there's now an Occupy DC, Boston, LA, and several others. Orgainizers have discovered that out-of-work 20-somethings might not have bus fare to get ...

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Ron Marans

Letters on the Eve of Madness?

This weekend I had an unusual exchange that I will share here. There is a woman on our little villages email list for Democrats who send out pro-Palestinian information from time to time. I asked her for some clarification about her motives and ...

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Ron Marans

In Praise of Swine

Not long ago, we had a bit of a dust up here in my Hudson River town. The normal whitetail deer population is supposed to be about 5 per square mile. In this area of the country, we have around 60. I can’t tell you what havoc this causes. ...

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Ron Marans
Racconto

Lo Stato di Palestina e la colpa di quei 65 anni di ritardo

Si parla molto dello Stato di Palestina. Ma già nel 1947 l’Onu stabilì la divisione dell’ex Ma
David Bidussa

For the Record

People are always telling Muslims that they need to more vocally disavow the unsavory acts of their co-religionists. Let me do the same right here. Judaism is a religion of peace, and anyone who is using it for the purposes of violence or ...

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Ron Marans