Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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News Tipplers in Exile After Refusenik’s Synagogue Visit
In a story bringing together dissidents of all stripes — rabbinic, refusenik and sybaritic — a spirited band of synagogue-goers finds itself out of favor, following a recent visit by Natan Sharansky. A onetime Soviet dissident and the current Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Sharansky spent the Sabbath beginning December 3 at the Hebrew Institute…
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News Preschool Teachers Unionize
A group of early childhood educators at the Cherry Hill, N.J., Katz JCC voted on December 17 to ratify a union-organized contract, making them the first employees of a Jewish preschool in the state to secure a labor agreement through collective bargaining. The product of nearly two years of negotiation, the newly formed shop, the…
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Culture Folksbiene’s ‘Romance’ Sings in the New Year
Every Jewish girl has a list of criteria that her ideal man must meet. But Khane, the bookish heroine of Abraham Goldfaden’s “A Novel Romance,” which is playing — in Yiddish — at the Manhattan JCC until January 2, 2005, has a list longer than most. He must be romantic, of course. And passionate, too….
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Israel News Author Tells the Tale of Her Grandmothers’ Survival
For followers of the émigré writers spawned by the Soviet Union in its waning days — writers like Lara Vapnyar, Gary Shteyngart and David Bezmozgis — the bare outlines of Masha Gessen’s biography should be familiar. Born in 1967 to a computer scientist father and a translator mother, she spent her early years, precocious yet…
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News O.U. Reverses Stance on Slaughterhouse
In a significant shift, the Orthodox Union has moved from supporting the controversial practices employed by a kosher slaughterhouse under its supervision to requesting that certain of these practices be changed. The move came amid a furious publicity blitz conducted by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Armed with a…
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News Animal-rights Activists Take Aim at Glatt Kosher Meat Plant
Armed with a stomach-turning, clandestinely made videotape and statements from two foreign rabbis, a leading animal-rights organization is accusing the world’s largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse of violating both American and Jewish laws mandating the humane slaughter of animals. The allegations are being leveled by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against AgriProcessors, an Iowa-based…
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Culture Hanukkah
Trim the Tree, Spin the Dreidel, It’s Chrismukkah! Last December, the Fox network’s hit teen drama “The O.C.,” which is short for Orange County, Calif., featured an episode in which nerd-heartthrob Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) introduced his foster brother, Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie), to the ecumenical ways of his half-Jewish, half-Protestant family. “Don’t worry about it,…
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News From Port to Starboard, Magazines Take to High Seas Towing the Party Line
The elections might have shown the country bitterly divided between red states and blue, but while riding the ocean’s waves it seems the only color that matters to the nation’s electorate is the Caribbean’s opalescent turquoise. With a contingent of more than 600 left-leaning souls, The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine, is set to launch…
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