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Food Jewish Mothers Who Can Cook — in Six Words
For many of us, Jewish mothers are synonymous with home cooking. In advance of Mother’s Day, we asked you, our readers, to describe your Jewish mothers in just six words. Not surprisingly, sprinkled throughout the submissions were many entries dedicated to moms as the ultimate cooks. Sure, there was the requisite Jewish mom joke: “Sad?…
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Fast Forward American Stabbed in Cairo Identified as Director of Arabic Program
The American director of an overseas study program was stabbed outside the gates of the United States embassy in Cairo on Thursday. Chris Stone, head of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, was set upon by an attacker and seriously wounded. The injuries were later said to be not life-threatening. “We are all devastated by…
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Fast Forward John Galliano Denied Teaching Job at Fashion School
John Galliano, the superstar fashion designer who has faced allegations of anti-Semitism, has been dumped from a planned teaching job at a New York fashion school after a protest spearheaded by Jewish students. Jen Kaplan, a representative of the Jewish Students Union at Parsons The New School For Design, said an anti-Galliano petition that drew…
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The Schmooze Ephron and Greenberg Pick Up Tony Nominations
It’s that time of year again. Tony Award nominations were announced this morning, with Best Play nods going to “The Assembled Parties” by Richard Greenberg, and “Lucky Guy,” the last play by the late Nora Ephron. Although Greenberg’s play is set on Christmas Day — two Christmas Days, actually — it’s about the Bascovs, a…
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Life The Salon: Kotel’s Egalitarian Future
Is an egalitarian section the best solution for the Kotel? That’s one of many questions that editor-in-chief Jane Eisner and Change the Ratio founder Rachel Sklar discuss on the latest episode of The Salon on the Jewish Channel. Watch it below, and click here for more discussions about the morning after pill, Margaret Thatcher’s legacy…
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The Schmooze Cornell Aquires Leopold Zunz Collection
The Cornell University Library has acquired a collection of works by the 19th-century German-Jewish scholar Leopold Zunz for its Rare and Manuscript Collections, according to a recent press release. More than 100 works by Zunz, in German and English translation, were donated by Rabbi Steven M. Glazer, a longtime Zunz scholar and enthusiast. In addition…
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Books Gary Shteyngart Wrote a Memoir
The next work from Gary Shteyngart, the novelist known for books such as “Absurdistan” and “Super Sad True Love Story,” will be a memoir, The New York Times reports. The book will be titled “Little Failure” and will be released in January 2014 by Random House. According to Shteyngart’s editor, David Ebershoff, the book will…
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The Schmooze New Ari Folman Film Will Screen at Cannes After All
Although Ari Folman’s “The Congress” didn’t make the main competition at the upcoming Cannes International Film Festival, it will open the Director’s Fortnight sidebar, the festival announced yesterday. The film is reported to be part-animated and part-live action, and stars Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti, Jon Hamm and Harvey Keitel, among others. Folman, an Israeli filmmaker,…
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