Devra Ferst
By Devra Ferst
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The Schmooze New York’s Best (Jewish) Sandwiches
Where would New York City be without its delicious and even outrageous sandwiches? Ranging from the fancy PB and J at Peanut Butter & Co to the iconic deli sandwich at Katz’s to haute cuisine at Bar Boulud, they are the city’s most iconic (and perhaps most consumed) portable food. This week, New York Magazine…
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The Schmooze Michael Oren and a Reverend Dance the Horah to Idan Raichel
Dinner before a pro-Israel event, $31. Subway uptown to mingle with Jews, $2.25. Watching Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren and a reverend dance the horah in a cathedral to the sounds of The Idan Raichel Project…priceless. Approximately 1,500 New Yorkers, Israelis and representatives from countries as obscure as Moldova showed up last night at New York’s…
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The Schmooze World’s Largest Falafel, But Who Cares?
Israel and Lebanon have waged a several year battle over who can produce the largest vat of hummus. The last record was set by Lebanon on May 12, with a 23,046 pound bowl of the chickpea dip. And now Israel is off to set the Guinness World Record for the largest falafel ball. An Israeli…
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The Schmooze Al Pacino’s Visit to Borough Park
Pacino talking in a husky smokers accent, Pacino accepting an Oscar… Pacino shuckling in the back of a Hasidic shul in Brooklyn? Definitely, not something you’d expect. But the actor was spotted in Brooklyn Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood davening and eating cheesecake early last week, according to a post on the Wall Street Journal’s blog….
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Life Why Women Must Stop Saying ‘I’m Sorry’
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon a blog post written by a woman who said that, at the all-girls Orthodox day school she had attended, she was taught to never ask a question or make a comment without preceding it with an apology. Regrettably, I can no longer find that particular post, but similar sentiments…
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The Schmooze I’d like to thank…The Genesis Prize?
The Grammy’s, the Nobel, the Oscar’s, the McArthur…The Genesis Prize? Soon a new award may be added to the list of the world’s most prestigious (and profitable) accolades. Natan Sharansky, the current Jewish Agency chairman, has supposedly proposed something called “The Genesis Prize,” a $1 Million award for Jewish contributions to humanity in areas including…
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Israel News Mulching Your Already Read Forward
Here at the Forward, we get some interesting e-mails and letters from readers. But in early May we had a first: A reader wrote in, asking how to repurpose old issues of the paper. Margaret from Seattle wrote: “I garden and would like to know whether the Forward is printed with soy-based ink. If so,…
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The Schmooze What To Do With Your Already-Read Forward
Here at The Forward, we get some interesting e-mails and letters. But last week we got our first question about repurposing old issues of the paper. Margaret from Seattle wrote: “I garden and would like to know whether the Forward is printed with soy-based ink. If so, I would be able to safely use the…
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