Ariella Cohen
By Ariella Cohen
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News In Big Easy, ‘White Boy’ Stern Makes Brass History
New Orleans – Even while fanning himself with two enormous ostrich feathers, Joe “White Boy” Stern, the small, milky-skinned man at the head of the jazz parade, sweated underneath his blue linen suit. “Hey, Joe, ya’ll right?” one man shouted from behind the thin rope separating the traditional New Orleans street procession from the crowd…
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Culture A Family Snapshot, in Black and White
Off-White: A Memoir By Laurie Gunst Soho Press, 288 pages, $25. * * *| Rhoda Cobin Lloyd died in October 1986. Her funeral was a small, open-casket affair that ended with a eulogy by Laurie Gunst, Southern Jew and historian. The eulogy was short: All Gunst could say was that Lloyd’s parents, Sam and Julie,…
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Israel News Peres at NYU, Courtesy of MTV
Adozen men wearing black suits and secret service earpieces loitered next to the front door of a New York University lecture hall. A pack of gum with Hebrew lettering on it lay on a desktop next to a camcorder stand. Clearly there was something out of the ordinary going on in Professor Caroleen Marji’s International…
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News Female Athletes Give New Year Some Muscle
These are calendar girls you don’t want to mess with. In previous years>
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Culture Imagining Life as A Black Woman –– In the Bible
In a recent meeting with the Forward at the Hotel Plaza Athenee on Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side, French novelist Marek Halter sketched one stone tablet, then its twin. He fashioned an ark around them and announced, “The Ten Commandments came from Moses.” He paused, popped a wasabi pea in his mouth and set his…
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Israel News Fading Rock Landmark Faces Last Hurrah
The stage lights are in danger of going black at the legendary New York rock club where The Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads got their start. Widely held to be the birthplace of punk, CBGB occupies the ground floor and basement of a homeless shelter on the Bowery. But now, the Bowery Residents’ Committee…
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Culture Individuality, Indelibly Expressed
The Tattoo Artist By Jill Ciment Pantheon Books, 224 pages, $23. * * *| The earliest recorded use of the word “tattoo” is found in descriptions of a Tahitian ritual, written by British explorer Captain James Cook during a 1769 voyage through the South Pacific. Imported into English vocabularies to describe the indelible body art…
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Culture Day School Innovates Curriculum With Help From Corporate Donor
As Jewish day schools strive to attract a new generation of computer-savvy students and their very discriminating parents, private funding from secular sources may be the key to the future. This fall, South Area Solomon Schechter Day School, located in Stoughton, Mass., will launch an integrated math and science program with a cutting-edge curriculum designed…
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