Tag Archives : 2013

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Whose dirty laundry?

This entry was posted in Essays new material and tagged 2013 gays homosexual Israel pinwashing policy on June 25, 2013 by Marla Cohen.

The world is a really queer place. How else can you explain the idea that is gaining traction that Israel is using its favorable record on gay rights to mask abuses of occupation? But that is the argument of those who are touting pinkwashing. Promoted primarily by Sarah Schulman, a professor at the College of Staten […]

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Spelling it out, in Yiddish and American 5

This entry was posted in Essays new material and tagged 2013 on June 2, 2013 by Marla Cohen.

So much fuss over a matzah ball, nu? Well, not a matzah ball, but a knaidel. Or is it kneydl? Or knaydl? Or kneidel? Because when Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old from Queens, correctly spelled  the word for a doughy dumpling that even the most unengaged of Jews have consumed, he unleashed an unabahsed frenzy of […]

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