Submitted by Julie Wiener on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 14:25
Whew, here’s an interfaith breakup/custody case that makes the Joseph and Rebecca Reyes one a few years ago seem pretty tame: a French Jewish woman suing her Saudi prince ex for custody of their 10-year-old daughter Aya (interestingly, the Reyes’ daughter had a similarly palindromic name: Ela). According to the Telegraph:
Submitted by Julie Wiener on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 14:29
I’m trying to make sense of a strange legal battle — one getting more mainstream media attention than Jewish media attention — concerning a Jewish cemetery in Colchester, Conn.
At Ahavath Achim, a Jewish board member (ironically named Maria) is suing to have the body of Juliet Steer, a black Christian woman exhumed, because Steer is not Jewish and has no ties to any Jews buried there.
Submitted by Julie Wiener on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 15:33
Abigail Pickus, who alas no longer blogs for us, but does do a monthly column on life in Israel, has an interesting piece in e-JewishPhilanthropy about Kesha Ram, a Vermont state legislator who recently went on a Birthright trip to Israel.
Submitted by Julie Wiener on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 15:20
Last year I jokingly titled a blog post “Christmas in Anatevka,” since my daughters and I had spent the big day watching “Fiddler on the Roof.”
This year, I felt like we really did spend Christmas morning in Anatevka. That’s because we were on the main drag (aptly called Main Street) of Queens’ very Jewish Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood.
Submitted by Julie Wiener on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 14:52
You-know-what (hint: starts with “ch”) has totally jumped the shark (chark?) now, with freelance writer Jordana Horn determined to squeeze out every last drop of chontroversy and, presumably, paychecks from the topic.
Submitted by Julie Wiener on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 18:28
Yikes, Chanukah has barely begun and this Christmas-Chanukah thing is starting to feel like the Chelsea (another “ch” word*) Clinton wedding: enough already!
Submitted by Julie Wiener on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 14:46
Kudos to Sue Fishkoff, a longtime Jewish journalist and author who is now editor of J., San Francisco’s Jewish newspaper, for “My Family Tree Is Loaded With Tinsel,” a brave piece about Christmas.
Submitted by Julie Wiener on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 10:11
With Chanukah just a few days away, and Christmas not far behind, the Intertubes are not surprisingly very, very congested with interesting Chanukah-Christmas Chatter. (Isn’t it cool that each of those three words starts with C-H, but in each one it’s pronounced differently? Clearly I’ve been spending a lot of time with my learning-to-read 5-year-old!)
