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Weekly Learning

It's nearly the weekend after "Rosh Hashana":http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/351 and if our unanswered emails are any indication, most people have pretty much checked out already. But whether you're entertain...
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Happy Birthday, Amy!

Our beloved ragamuffin Amy Winehouse "turns 24 today":http://dlisted.com/node/15122. Twenty four? Really? Drugs/anorexia/insanity isn't so good for the looks, I suppose. Anyway, happy birthday, Amy! May the nex...
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Justify This List

This week, _Rolling Stone_ spewed out another one of its hyperbolic and dubious round-ups, namely "The 25 Most Outrageous Music Videos":http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/16339647/twentyfive_most_outrageous...
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Purchase in Advance

It was reported "yesterday":http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070911/od_afp/netherlandsdrugslaws_070911180903;_ylt=Aqw4RBCWcKr6BgXMz_BabEqs0NUE that Mayor Job Cohen of Amsterdam is pushing for a three-day wait peri...
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Heeeeeeerrrrre’s Jonny!

The _Daily Show_'s Jon Stewart will "return as host for the 2008 Oscar telecast":http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=11763. The switch back to Stewart (who hosted the 2006 Awards) was a decision made by ...
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It’s All in the Dyes

Consider this the obligatory 9/11 post. While "some":http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/11/mueller.bin.laden/ publications are debating the implications of Bin Laden's speech in his recent video tape, "others":htt...
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Ask A Black Man

Richard Pryor didn't come up with all of those wildly provocative punch lines by himself. A large amount of his scathing onstage material and Grammy-winning LPs are credited to _The Richard Pryor Show_ head wri...
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Jewdar

*Fall Of Hope* We are rapidly approaching that special time of redemption and renewal—we speak, of course, of the new fall television season. Once again, the network execs have somehow forgotten to solicit Jew...

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