Ariella Cohen
By Ariella Cohen
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Israel News Singer Memoir on CD
The Forward Association (publisher of the Forward) recently released a two-disc recording of Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1966 memoir, “In My Father’s Court” — in Yiddish. Originally serialized in the Yiddish Forward over the course of seven months in 1955, Singer’s reminiscences were published under the pseudonym “Isaac Warshawsky.” The simply told story, the…
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Culture ‘Neverland’ Producer Searches for a Cure to Son’s Bloom’s Syndrome
In the press notes to the 2004 movie “Finding Neverland,” director Mark Forster ruminates on the “deep human need for illusions and dreams” and “belief in the face of tragedy.” Producer Richard Gladstein does not offer anything quite so sentimental when I ask him, about one year after the film’s blockbuster success, to muse on…
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News Folk Tales Beyond Chelm
A Jew brought the first umbrella to Latin America. With all the attention paid to the hardy entrepreneurs who 350 years ago settled on the New World’s northern Atlantic coast, i.e., North America, it has been all too easy to overlook those Jews who instead schlepped their goods (including families and traditions) south — that…
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News MACCABIAH GAMES
BASKETBALL Herb Brown Herb Brown exemplifies a long and distinguished basketball tradition: the Jewish coach. Joining the ranks of such legends as Arnold “Red” Auerbach, longtime coach of the Boston Celtics, and William “Red” Holzman, onetime coach of the New York Knicks, Brown has kept the tradition alive by teaching the X’s and O’s of…
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News Lillian Lux Burstein, 86, Yiddish Theater Giant
Lillian Lux Burstein, an internationally acclaimed doyenne of the Yiddish theater, died in New York last week of natural causes. She was 86. Burstein is best known for the musical acts she produced and staged as the matriarch of The Four Bursteins, a troupe composed of herself, her husband — famed actor Pesach’ke (Paul) Burstein…
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Israel News Draft of Balfour Declaration Up for Bids
The eight men who gathered in July 1917 to draft the Balfour Declaration, making clear the British government’s intention to create a Jewish state in Palestine, reached agreement on the brief document’s wording. But as they were writing out the text, they decided to change one word. While the wording had originally stated that the…
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News Whose Independence Are We Celebrating, Anyway?
Israel turns 57 this week, and in Jewish kitchens all across America the cakes are getting iced blue and white to mark the occasion. But not in the kitchen at Hoomoos Asli, an Israeli restaurant in Lower Manhattan, or in the kitchen at Pianos, an East Village bar that is popular with the neighborhood’s sizable…
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News Jewish World Domination: What If It Were True?
Like a trompe l’oeil painting or the lectures of a well-read but deranged academic, each chapter of “The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies,” the first full-length work of, um, scholarship by Heeb magazine editors David Deutsch and Joshua Neuman, operates on a premise that is in equal parts absurd and bizarrely accurate. Recounting tales from…
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