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Fast Forward Ryan Braun Wins Appeal of Drug Ban
National League Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun won his appeal of a suspension imposed after he allegedly failed a test for performance-enhancing drugs, the baseball players union announced Thursday. The Milwaukee Brewers slugger, the first Jewish MVP in a half-century, became the first baseball player ever to successfully appeal a positive drug test. “I am…
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Fast Forward Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria
Two Western journalists were killed Wednesday, amid a deadly government crackdown in the Syrian city of Homs. The victims were identified as American Marie Colvin, a reporter for The Sunday Times of London, and Rémi Ochlik, a French photographer. Colvin, 55, was a veteran war correspondent, who had reported from conflict zones around the world….
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Fast Forward Chavez Rival Called a Zionist, Neo-Nazi
Venezuela state media is accusing the man who will challenge Hugo Chavez in October’s presidential election of everything from backing “international Zionism which threatens to destroy the planet” to being a being a member of a neo-Nazi sect. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has asked Chavez to ensure that state institutions don’t incite anti-Semitic attacks on…
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Fast Forward Oliver Stone’s Son: Dad Welcomes Islam Conversion
The filmmaker son of director Oliver Stone says he is facing “the reverse of anti-Semitism,” after converting to Islam in Iran last week. Sean Stone — since his conversion, he goes by the name Sean Christopher Ali Stone — told The New York Post’s Page Six: “I’ve already experienced the reverse of anti-Semitism, having people within…
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The Schmooze Out and About
The Guardian looks into the influence of Yiddish on British theater. Will Hollywood success affect Michael Chabon’s fiction? The latest issue of the LABA Journal is out, featuring essays by Elissa Strauss, Stephen Hazan Arnoff and Karen Loew. J. Hoberman wonders whether we are beginning to see an Obama-inflected cinema. Israeli author Alex Epstein is…
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Fast Forward Suspected Iranian National Maimed by Own Bomb in Bangkok
A man thought to be an Iranian national was maimed in Bangkok Tuesday, when a bomb he was carrying exploded. Thai police believe the incident was a botched terror attack. According to reports, the suspect threw a grenade at a taxi after its driver refused to pick him up. When police swooped in to arrest…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Adele swept the Grammy Awards, winning six different categories. According to a new book, Shakespeare had a Jewish grandfather from Bohemia. Jenna Weissman Joselit writes about the meaning of a Jewish home at the Yiddish Book Center. Alex Ross writes about Philip Glass. Enough said. David Meir Grossman writes for Tablet about the feminist rock…
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The Schmooze Nazis, Gay Sex and Esperanto
It seems hardly credible that New York urban planning, entomology, Nazi memorabilia, boxing, Esperanto and the lifeless English city of Milton Keynes could combine — with a myriad of other obscurities, both historical and fictitious — into a coherent 200 page novel. That they do — and to the extent of winning the prestigious Goldberg…
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