This week in the Jewish media:
- It’s conventional wisdom that Jews aren’t as attached to Israel as they used to be. This study suggests the conventional wisdom is wrong. [The Forward]
- Did you know Obama’s chief staffer on Jewish affairs used to live with Clinton’s chief Jew? [JTA]
- Jewlicious looks at accusations of antisemitism at the University of California–Irvine, debating whether UCI’s conference on Sephardic Judaism this Friday is academia as usual, or a half-assed way to say “See, we like Jews!”
- Need a spring-weight scarf but feel uneasy about the implications of wearing a keffiyah? A Peace Treaty is a line of gorgeous scarves designed by a Pakistani Muslim and a Libyan Jew and handmade by artisans in war-torn places. [Heeb, A Peace Treaty]
- A non-Jewish San Francisco man tried to sell a Nazi medallion made from the gold teeth of Holocaust victims on Craigslist for $10,000 [j.]
- The LA Jewish Journal’s blog runs a nearly 500-word story about going to the grocery store and saving $24. Why? [Jewlyweds]
- And people think Heeb is the offensive one: Shabat 6000 makes a (kind of hilarious) pedophile joke [Jewschool]
- The falafel that ate New York City [The Jew and the Carrot]
- Modern Orthodox Judaism is seeing more women in key positions of power—what Jewess calls “female not-rabbis” [Jewess, Haaretz]
- Everyone in Hollywood is fucking everyone else, Seth Rogan included [The Yada Blog]