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May 9, 2011 Media / Politicians

‘Hillary Clinton deemed too sexy for Jewish newspaper’—so it zaps her from White House photo

Actually, any woman would have been too sexy in this case. In line with its no-females-in-photos rule, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish

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February 10, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

Kafka, Proust, Roth classics lead Jewcy.com list: ‘The 50 Most Essential Works of Jewish Fiction of the Last 100 Years’

For every two Jews, said David Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel,  three opinions exist, and maybe when

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December 6, 2010 Politicians / The Solomon Scandals

Leonardo DiCaprio may convert to Judaism: Five reasons for President Obama to do likewise (satire alert)

Groucho Marx once said any club that would admit him wasn’t worth joining. Marx was Jewish, of course, as am

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May 2, 2010 Building collapses / Lorain, Ohio / Skyline Plaza / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Kent State Massacre 40 years later: ‘Get set!’ ‘Point!’ ‘Fire!’ orders said to be in enhanced recording

Four Kent State University students—including Bill Schroeder, an ROTC cadet whose funeral I wrote up for the Lorain Journal—died 40

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December 3, 2008 Jewish topics

Scandals as a Northern Virginia Jewish novel

Jonathan Stone as an Afro-American? Because Jewish protagonists are such old hat? So suggested a buddy of mine—not an anti-semite

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