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Re: Commentary on Jewish hipsters

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D.G. Myers is out of touch. Out of touch with American Jews, out of touch with the Jewish innovation sector, out of touch with the Jewish tradition. And who can blame him? Have you ever met a “Jewish hipster” who went to Texas A&M?

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Mishegaas for Jan. 26, 2009

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He cleans up well: Artist Shepard Fairey at the induction of his iconic Obama portrait into the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Photo via Supertouch.
Sometimes I’m just too lazy to blog and too exasperated to discuss politics.

This month’s “Harper’s Index” offers an illuminating and horrifying retrospective of the Bush era. [Harper's]
Designers Thomas Fuchs and [...]

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Tony Blair on Faith & Justice

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New York has a great piece in this past week’s issue about Tony Blair’s faith work following his departure from British politics.
The article goes some way in drawing what I see as the distinction between religious progressives and religious fundamentalists:

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NY Post's Unabashed Unamericanism Masquerading as Patriotism

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Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post says that the laws restricting federal wiretapping are now responsible for the death of an American serviceman in Iraq.
You hear that America? The Constitution is killing our soldiers!
In order to protect the freedoms granted by our Constitution, we must eviscerate the Constitution!
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the American Der [...]

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