Catie Lazarus
By Catie Lazarus
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News Paying Homage to Comedy’s Matriarchs
‘Did you know that when you go out with a gentile he never tells you how much the meal costs?” comedian Cory Kahaney jokes in her stand-up act. “If I don’t know how much the meal costs, I don’t know how much to put out! At least with Jews you know where you stand.” The…
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News A Fair and Balanced Look At Al Franken
As political satirists go, Al Franken is in a league of his own. Five Emmy Awards reveal his sublime impact on “Saturday Night Live” as one of its original writers and later as a producer and performer. His books, including “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot” and “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell…
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Opinion Bathsheba Bloomingdales Shmutz, Baron Ezekiel Gideon Rothschild
Bathsheba Bloomingdales Shmutz, 29, and Baron Ezekiel Gideon Rothschild, 69, were married today at the home of Queen Noor in St. Lucia. Rabbi Moishe Gawlshplatz officiated. Mr. Rothschild’s father, Baron Judah Jonah Rothschild, a cantor, participated. The bridegroom is known as Pish and invented the zipper. He served as the Senior Undersecretary to Presidents Gerald…
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