Eric Marx
By Eric Marx
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News The Great Shtibl Revival of Hungary
In a nondescript apartment building in Budapest’s Eighth District, Rabbi Sholom Hurwitz stands behind a wooden podium and claps out the beat to a raucous Sephardic melody. About 30 people, most of them men, pray together in the flat’s main sanctuary, a small living room that the congregants affectionately call their shtibl — from the…
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Culture A Ladino Singer Rebels –– With Flamenco
Yasmin Levy should be a very happy woman. The Jerusalem-born singer is perhaps the most visible and popular performer of contemporary Ladino music. Critics gushed over her 2001 debut album, “Romance & Yasmin,” and well-received performances at the World of Music, Arts & Dance festivals in Singapore and Madrid in 2004 and 2005 have garnered…
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News Anything Goes In Amsterdam
As Xaviera Hollander spoke to an admiring crowd of fans, friends and former lovers at New York’s Museum of Sex recently, it was clear she hadn’t lost her ardor for spinning titillating tales of sexual dalliance and decadence. These days, however, the former Penthouse columnist and author of the best-selling tell-all book about her life…
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News Anti-tax Activist Defends Holocaust Comparison
A top anti-tax activist and White House ally is standing by his comparison of proponents of the estate tax to the perpetrators of the Holocaust, while taking the analogy further and dismissing his critics as “socialists.” “The Nazis were for gun control, the Nazis were for high marginal tax rates,” said Grover Norquist in an…
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News Panelists Claim New Republic Cut Their Anti-Saudi Remarks
Participants in a panel discussion sponsored by The New Republic and Saudi Arabia are claiming that their most hard-hitting criticisms of the kingdom were edited out of a transcript that appeared in the magazine. Billed as an opportunity to talk about Islam and its contemporary relationship with the West, the November 13 panel discussion was…
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News Panelists Claim New Republic Cut Their Anti-Saudi Remarks
Participants in a panel discussion sponsored by The New Republic and Saudi Arabia are claiming that their most hard-hitting criticisms of the kingdom were edited out of a transcript that appeared in the magazine. Billed as an opportunity to talk about Islam and its contemporary relationship with the West, the November 13 panel discussion was…
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News Once Upon a Time — Once Again
Professional storyteller Roslyn Bresnick-Perry read a story about lighting Chanukah candles to 12 sets of eager ears several weeks before Chanukah. In her story, she and her mischievous cousin Zisel nearly burn down the family barn while conducting a menorah-lighting ceremony using a hollowed-out potato, a string smeared with chicken fat, three matches and a…
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News Real Estate Magnate Sees a Third Way Leading to Mideast Peace
As the recently unveiled Geneva Understandings pick up international support — and settler leaders push their own model for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — yet another Middle East peace plan is being put forward. Abe Hirschfeld, an eccentric real estate mogul and senatorial candidate from New York, has a binational plan that, he claims, can…
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