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Condoleezza Rice’s Aspen Performance Helps Barack Obama
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Brad Hirschfield
Yesterday evening’s musical performance by Condoleezza Rice at the Aspen Institute and Aspen Music Festival should have been called, Shanda (Yiddish for travesty) and Schubert. But Boosha (Hebrew for shame) and Brahms would be just as appropriate. What else to label this mostly musical performance before some of the nations most influential citizens? With global…
Are You Ethically Kosher?
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Brad Hirschfield
That’s the big question being addressed by Hekhsher Tzedek, an initiative led primarily by rabbis in the Conservative movement, most notably Rabbi Morris Allen of Beth Jacob Congregation in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. With new guidelines just released in which they set out the criteria which a business must meet in order to gain this group’s…
Can You Be Both Religious and Racist?
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Brad Hirschfield
That’s the question I was asked this week by the Newsweek and Washington Post editors of the On Faith section, in light of the fact that 33% of Americans admit to racial prejudice and 90% of us claim to believe in God. My immediate response? It’s an ancient tradition! The fact is that one can,…
The Daily Hitler
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Brad Hirschfield
There is actually a website called The Daily Hitler, and it’s not the product of neo-Nazis seeking their regular fix of the Fuhrer. It’s the work of Israeli artist Nir Avigad. And although I know I am going to get clobbered by both sides on this one, I have no choice. Why? Because we are…
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