By Jon Kalish
‘The Astor Orphan’ tells the story of growing up on a grand estate. Unfortunately, all was not right behind the curtain of one of America’s most famed blueblood families.
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By Jon Kalish
Judith Malina will not go gentle into that good night. The fiery 86-year-old director of
the Living Theatre is losing both her apartment and the Lower East Side home of the world renowned theater troupe she co-founded 66 years ago. Later this week Malina will move into an elder care facility in New Jersey, but she’s vowing to commute into Manhattan a few times a week and work with the company that has championed her unapologetic anarchist-utopian vision.
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By Jon Kalish
Larry Selman died of heart failure at 70. The disabled man starred in the Oscar-nominated ‘The Collector of Bedford Street,’ a documentary about his efforts to collect charity donations.
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By Jon Kalish
A young Israeli grad student named Mishy holds up a cardboard sign that says “anywhere” as he hitchhikes out of Cambridge, England. He catches a ride with a Gypsy family bound for the ferry to France. In the vessel’s cafeteria Mishy meets a truck driver name Vladimir who agrees to take him to Spain. Only, when they start driving Vladimir neglects to make the turn into Belgium and informs Mishy, “No Spain, Ukraine.” At the Slovenian-Ukrainian border the two are arrested for smuggling counterfeit Barbie dolls. Sounds like it could be a story on the wildly popular public radio show
“This American Life,” doesn’t it?
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By Jon Kalish
You think your family has issues? Nechemya Weberman’s cousins include an anti-Zionist who’s chummy with Iran and a ‘garbologist’ who picked through Bob Dylan’s trash.
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Montreal's First Jewish Mayor Michael Applebaum Hit With Corruption Charges
Tapping Into Growing Lure of Hidden Jewish Heritage
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