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As Election Day Approaches, How to Start the Healing
By
Esther Kustanowitz
This election process has been a vicious one: but you don’t have to be a racist, a sexist, or have a backwards “B” carved into your face to know that however it turns out when all the votes are counted, there are going to be some angry Americans. Personally and professionally, as a blogger, I’ve…
Religious Jews Wig Out Over ‘The Palin’
By
Esther Kustanowitz
Not since “the Rachel” has a hairstyle been in such demand. Jewish bloggers have been writing about this for weeks. And politics always seems to spawn merchandising. Now the NY Post reports that in the past several weeks, a wig-shop in Brooklyn’s Borough Park (home to many ultra-Orthodox Jews) has sold about 50 “Sarah P.”…
Some Obama-Love from Religious Folks and Another Funny Video…
By
Donna Freitas
So the word from the Pew Research Center is that “religious voters appear to be gradually gravitating toward Barack Obama as their pick for president.” While Obama is edging out McCain among the mainline Protestant demographic, apparently, “McCain still holds an advantage over his rival among white evangelical Protestant voters,” says the CNN article about…
‘SNL’ and The ‘Palin Effect’
By
Douglas Howe
If John McCain is photographed holding up a “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline on Election Night in two weeks, pundits and media talking heads across the country will no doubt point to the invisible “Obama Factor” as the reason for why this a priori nominee didn’t win. What they may be missing, though, will be the…
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