Allison Gaudet Yarrow
By Allison Gaudet Yarrow
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Life Newspapers Doctor Photos of Israel’s Female Politicians
Two Orthodox newspapers ran doctored photos of Israel’s new cabinet. Missing in the altered photos are the cabinet’s female members. Ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver posed for the official cabinet photo, but the BBC reports that Yated Neeman newspaper added two men to the photo in place of the women, while Shaa Tova simply…
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Life ‘Seven Jewish Children’ — Provocative Playlet or Agitprop?
Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza” is inciting more controversy stateside since it jumped the pond. Last week, Washington’s Theater J, staged two free readings of the 10-minute playlet that the The Washington Post called “a beautifully crafted cheap shot” and “an effort to compress to black-and-white a question of conscience of…
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Life Yarmulkes on the Basketball Court
College basketball may madden March, but high school players are making some news of their own — pioneering the latest craze in Jewish headgear. The Boca Raton-based Weinbaum Yeshiva High School Storm are wearing Klipped Kippahs at a Jewish basketball tournament in New York this week. Invented by their coach, Jon Kaweblum, the Klipped Kippah uses…
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Life Controversy Surrounds ‘Seven Jewish Children’
The New York Theatre Workshop will stage three readings of the British playwright Caryl Churchill’s 10-minute play, “Seven Jewish Children” — a quickly written response to the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza. When the play debuted in February at London’s famous Royal Court Theatre, it had some critics swooning; it has others up in arms….
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Life Inside Madoff’s ‘Penthouse Prison’
On Friday, the ABC News show “20/20,” aired videos of a polo shirt-clad Bernard Madoff, holed up in his Upper East Side “penthouse prison” — using his MacBook laptop computer, a bottle of sparkling water at his side. In the segment, former Madoff employee Nader Ibrahim said Madoff’s sons and brother ran the business while…
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