• When Orthodox chefs can’t eat the food they prepare.

• Obama’s Park Slope brownstone.

• Homemade cars from 1960s Poland.

• Here’s Seth Rogen looking all serious in stills for his new film, Take This Waltz.

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In this corner: Daniel Gordis, of Israel’s Shalem Center. He wrote a stinging rejoinder to Beinart’s call for “Zionist BDS,” a boycott of settlement-made products. He accused Beinart of naïveté—about Israel, about the Palestinians, and about Jewish power. He also blamed Beinart for ignoring history: “In Beinart-land, the past is a blank screen,” he wrote. “All that matters is the unbearable heaviness of being in the present.”

In the other corner: In his reply to Gordis’ polemic, he alleged that Gordis had played fast and loose with what Beinart actually wrote. “For Gordis to ignore passages like this (and there are plenty of others) and declare that I ‘detest’ Israel represents a blatant act of deception,” pleaded Beinart.

Refereeing: Tablet Magazine News & Politics editor Bari Weiss, who will ensure a good, clean, but robust fight.

We’ll see you there!

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• Now you too can smell like The Voice host Adam Levine!

• Former Big Jewcy Adam Wilson on the Slanket as a period detail.

• Peter Beinart is launching a new group blog, Zion Square, on The Daily Beast.

• A.O. Scott calls Joseph Cedar’s Oscar-nominated film, Footnote, a “piercing satire”

• Happy 53rd birthday, Barbie. You are truly made from a different mold.

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Jewcy is live at the 2011 J Street conference in Washington D.C. Stay tuned to this page for live streaming of all the events, citizen journalism pieces and other updates beginning at 7 PM EST. Saturday through Monday.

Sunday, February 27th

9:15 AM In the “Working with Christian Communities towards a Two-State Solution” the Mike Huckabee jokes are flying.

9:25 AM People echoing the sentiment that the uprisings in the Arab world are not about Israel.

9:30 AM Person sitting next to me says “this is going to be a Tzipi Livni lovefest.”

9:45 AM “It doesn’t feel like peace is going to come from Israel.” – Member of the crowd making statement, not asking a question.

10:oo AM We’re updating testimonials from participants at the conference.  First up are Tania and Steve.

10:15 AM Next session about to start; there are still danishes and 3 people made cracks about “They’re pushing us in like livestock.” Always awkward.

10:30 AM Discussion of the Israeli populations political breakdown.  45% consider themselves right-wing, 27% center, 17% left and 12% unidentified.

10:43 AM New Israel Fund’s Naomi Chazan: ‘Israel is in democratic recession.”

10:50 AM New Israel Fund’s CEO, Daniel J. Sokatch, gives us a testimonial as to why he’s at J Street.

12:00 PM “Must ensure that the legitimate rights of the people are protected whilst their just cause is not hijacked by radical movements” – Ron Pundak.

12:15 PM We talked to Eric Alterman from The Nation.

12:25 PM Mona Eltahawy talking about revolutions through hashtags.

1:15 PM If There was a drinking game for every time we heard “3rd party,” hashtag,” and of course, “peace,” the blood alcoholic level of this place could fuel half of Africa.

2:30 PM After the exodus to Chipotle, we’re back in session with “Resolving the Middle East Conflict as a Core American National Security Interest.”

2:45 PM “Every US president since Truman has thought solving the Middle East conflict is a US national security concern.” – Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

4:30 PM “Netanyahu is not in control of his government.” -Yoel Hasson, Member of Knesset (Kadima).  Says the (Israeli) government will become unstable in 2012.

Monday, February 28th

9:10 AM Chief Presidential adviser on the Middle East, Dennis Ross, emphasizes US support of Egypt.

9:20 AM Ross emphasizing how the US has not forgotten about Middle Eastern partners and allies in the last few weeks.  Leads into talking about Israel.

9:25 AM “There has never been a time when US support for Israeli security has been stronger than it is now.” – Ross

10:00 AM “You can’t be a friend of Arab freedom if you’re on the wrong side of Palestinian freedom.” – Daniel Levy, New America Foundation

10:10 AM “In Tahrir Square I never heard Israel mentioned. This is about gaining dignity and rights.”  – Roger Cohen from The New York Times

3:00 PM Going into “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in 2011: Who’s Afraid of the BDS?” This is one of the most talked about controversial panels of the entire conference.

3:45 PM Stepped out of BDS panel for a moment.  3 people who want to get in started to scream at me.  They backed off when I told them I was grabbing my asthma inhaler.

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• What next for Libya and leader Col Muammar Gaddafi?  Well, Jewcy is always looking for interns.

• If you use the internet without a “modesty filter,” good luck leading prayer services in shul.

• Peter Beinart thinks that the Right’s reactions to the ongoing protests in the Middle East makes them hypocrites.

• Seth Rogen titles his cancer comedy, 50/50.

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A professor at the CUNY School of Journalism, a columnist at the Daily Beast, and the author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, Beinart is quickly making a name for himself as one of the country’s most well-respected commentators on domestic and international politics—and someone you can invite on TV who won’t foam at the mouth.

It’s been an interesting year for Beinart: In June, he wrote one of the most interesting pieces on American Jewish identity that we’ve read all year in the New York Review of Books, and his book has amassed heaps of praise from every outlet that matters.

This week Beinart sat down with Jewcy.com to talk about the Zionist movement in the United States, and whether Eric Clapton has the power to forge peace on the Korean peninsula.

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