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Sundown: Israeli Judge Concerned By New Bills
Plus Jewish rap from Drake to Jay-Z, and more
• The president of Israel’s Supreme Court publicly worried about the spate of right-wing legislation. [Haaretz/Forward]
• “The 25 Best Jewish References in Rap.” Internet perfection. [Complex]
• Incredible photo. Click. [Journal of a Journalist]
• A side of Eric Cantor you haven’t seen, and will then wish you hadn’t. [VF]
• For the record, some of us don’t look very Jewish and have oddly Irish names and love it when the Chabadniks accost us and ask if we’re of the tribe. [The Awl]
• Dr. Brown’s cocktails. Dr. Brown’s cocktails! [Jewcy]
• Rabbi Andy Bachman ponders whether he is right to teach his children to love Israel. [Water Over Rocks]
Merry Christmas to the Christians; happy solstice to the pagans.
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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- Haim Rocks Out at Coachella
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