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Sundown
• 76 Egyptians were convicted for last year’s attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. They will serve one-year sentences. [YNet] • Scroll Editor Emeritus Marc Tracy writes about the nascent journo...
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A Look At Israel's Flood
For a country that prides itself on preparedness, bad weather in Israel has brought its biggest city and some of its roads and public transportation to a halt. As it turns out, the desert may have...
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Today's News: IDF Reserve Soldierss Called Up, Israeli Embassy Posts on BuzzFeed
• Israel’s security cabinet has approved a limited call-up of several thousand reserve soldiers in response to a possible U.S strike on Syria. So far a few hundred soldiers have been called up. (You...
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New Website BuzzTorah Wants to Make Judaism Go Viral
You know that sense of happy identification you feel when you find a BuzzFeed listicle that seems to be tailor-made for you? Like the 50 reasons your alma mater is the best, or the 36 greatest things...
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What's The Opposite of Schadenfreude? The Hebrew Word 'Firgun' Might Be Close
Today on BuzzFeed, New Zealand-based artist Anjana Iyer’s clever illustrations of words without direct English translations are featured, and they are nothing if not delightful. The German...
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The Tea Party’s New Front in the American Culture Wars: Literature
It has not always been the case that imaginative writers—novelists, poets, playwrights—are liberals. Look back at the 1920s, the classic decade of modernism, and you’ll find that some of the greatest...
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BuzzFeed Gets a Big Story Wrong
Yesterday, Israeli security officials claimed the funding and instructions for the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in June came from two top leaders of Hamas in Gaza: Fathi Hammad, the former...
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Unorthodox Ep. 52: Rosie Gray on the Presidential Election, and Adam Linn on...
This week on Unorthodox, Amar’e Stoudemire ditches the NBA for the Holy Land. Our Jewish guest is BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray, who has spent the past six months following the Republican presidential...
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On Unorthodox, Reporter Rosie Gray and Longtime Inauguration Announcer...
This week on Unorthodox: Bernie Madoff’s prison hot-chocolate scheme. We’ve got two Jewish guests this week. Our first guest is a return visitor: Rosie Gray, who covered the election for BuzzFeed and...
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A New BuzzFeed Video Considers the 'Perks of Dating a Jewish Girl'
In a short BuzzFeed-produced video called “The Perks of Dating a Jewish Girl,” a cute, bewildered (and presumably gentile) young man with all the stylistic hallmarks of an early-millennial hipster,...
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Bigoted Buzzfeed Quiz Mocks Orthodox Women
Imagine someone posting a quiz on a hugely popular website titled “Build a Black Man and We’ll Tell You How Old He’ll Be When He Goes to Jail for Dealing Drugs.” If you decide to take it, you’ll be...
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Sundown: 76 Egyptians Convicted of Embassy Attack
• 76 Egyptians were convicted for last year’s attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. They will serve one-year sentences. [YNet] • Scroll Editor Emeritus Marc Tracy writes about the nascent journo...
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A Look at Israel’s Flood
For a country that prides itself on preparedness, bad weather in Israel has brought its biggest city and some of its roads and public transportation to a halt. As it turns out, the desert may have...
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IDF Reserves Called Up; Disraeli the Style Icon
• Israel’s security cabinet has approved a limited call-up of several thousand reserve soldiers in response to a possible U.S strike on Syria. So far a few hundred soldiers have been called up. (You...
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BuzzTorah Wants to Make Judaism Go Viral
You know that sense of happy identification you feel when you find a BuzzFeed listicle that seems to be tailor-made for you? Like the 50 reasons your alma mater is the best, or the 36 greatest things...
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The Opposite of Schadenfreude?
Today on BuzzFeed, New Zealand-based artist Anjana Iyer’s clever illustrations of words without direct English translations are featured, and they are nothing if not delightful. The German...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Tea Party’s New Front in the American Culture Wars: Literature
It has not always been the case that imaginative writers—novelists, poets, playwrights—are liberals. Look back at the 1920s, the classic decade of modernism, and you’ll find that some of the greatest...
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BuzzFeed Gets a Big Story Wrong
Yesterday, Israeli security officials claimed the funding and instructions for the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in June came from two top leaders of Hamas in Gaza: Fathi Hammad, the former...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy Trails
This week on Unorthodox, Amar’e Stoudemire ditches the NBA for the Holy Land. Our Jewish guest is BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray, who has spent the past six months following the Republican presidential...
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Inaugural Distress
This week on Unorthodox: Bernie Madoff’s prison hot-chocolate scheme. We’ve got two Jewish guests this week. Our first guest is a return visitor: Rosie Gray, who covered the election for BuzzFeed and...
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