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THIS WEEK'S EDITION: JUNE 28, 2019 Rahm Emanuel, the famously tough Jew who until recently served as mayor of Chicago, never visited that city’s Orthodox neighborhood. Now a new mayor’s in office and where did she go? You guessed it. Is she Jewish? No way. What’s more, she’s black, she’s gay — and they love her. Midwesterner Aiden Pink reports.
“It’s cheap, I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, ‘How I’m doing,’ chocolate-egg-cream-drinking, bagel and lox, B’nai B’rith asshole!” Not bad … but what about “neurotic,” “dreidel-spinning,” “self-hating,” and all the rest? Welcome, Yidden, to Spike Lee’s wonderful, wide world of Jews.
Actress Rosanna Arquette came under Twitter fire for suggesting that Jews should be uniquely sensitive to the plight of children in migrant detention centers. Loathe though Jenny Singer says she is to stir up the soupy scum created by a minor Twitter spat, stir she will, anyway. Rosanna Arquette is a Jewess but she is NOT the Rosanna of the song “Rosanna,” I swear it. You’re welcome.
Jared Kushner is … I think you all know who he is. His peace plan? An embarrassment, according to Joel Braunold, Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace. Speaking of which, does Israel violate human rights? Here’s what top Democratic candidates say. Not all of them! Just a curated selection. It’s Shabbat, after all.
Speaking of which, here’s your moment of Shabbat Zen: Watch and listen to this gorgeous Yiddish rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujiah.”
