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Remember this debacle? Everyone had something to say about it (including many disturbing comments on Digg, so folks who wanna join Mobius in changing Digg up, hit him up), and Smith quickly responded with a statement:
“It is an awful and disgusting lie,” Smith said in a statement released Monday, regarding the suggestion that he believes [...]

Robin Washington is editorial page editor of the Duluth News Tribune and a commentator on public radio stations nationwide. This piece first appeared in Minnesota’s American Jewish World.
Would somebody please tell me how many degrees of separation from Louis Farrakhan you have to be in order to be considered a decent person on this planet [...]

cross-posted to jspot:
Folks have probably heard about Rep Tom Lantos‘ passing. One tidbit you may not know yet is the support he gave to transgender folks. Emails flooded my inbox highlighting this not so well-known talking point. Here’s just one of the emails I received from the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition:

NTAC Remembers a True Hero [...]

The JTA Election Blog has an interesting quote today from J.J. Goldberg, Editor of The Forward on the paper’s clarification of an editorial they wrote on the Obama “smear” campaign. Many readers considered the editorial as lending credence to the “smear” campaign.
What’s sad is that one of Goldberg’s main points wasn’t getting through, which was [...]

Super Tuesday–have you gotten your fix yet? Well have no fear if you haven’t, I’m sure tomorrow will be filled with delightful commentary. We know this is a big day for Jews, since almost two-thirds of Jews in the U.S. will be voting tomorrow.
Reading through the Jewish papers Presidential Primary commentary on the Democratic front [...]

This is just the first of a number of stories that JVoices helped break into the media that will be coming out in the next few days about the Yeshivah of Flatbush Reunions, and the call for an open door policy by Yeshivah Alumni. We’ll keep you posted as they come!
Gay Alumni of Brooklyn Yeshiva [...]

A few highlights from our friends in the Jewish Blogosphere:
Jspot tips us off to JCPA’s blog, and Jewish voter disfranchisement in Nevada.
Over at Jewlicious, Y-Love tackles incendiary comments found on the NY Daily News website after they published an article about New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s (D-Brooklyn) inauguration of the “Blacks & Jews Together” [...]

Guest blog post from Erez Lieberman (Flatbush H.S. ‘97), Open Flatbush Reunions creator and Nachshon Rothstein (Flatbush H.S. ‘98)
The petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openreunions/
The Yeshivah of Flatbush High School Class of 1997 reunion was held on December 22nd, 2007. Although the vast majority of students were invited to bring guests to the reunion, some students — including an [...]

Recently, my wife Lauren and I vacationed in an up-and-coming, mid-sized city in the Deep South. Traveling from Wilmington, NC and having heard of employment opportunities there, we decided to visit the area and “scope things out.” When we arrived on that warm, sunny day, my [...]

Check it out: a “Work-in-Progress Documentary” called Outside the Box by Lacey A. Schwartz, exploring her mixed-race identity–being Black and Jewish in the U.S. (Presented by Gold Glass Productions)