Gary Rudoren
By Gary Rudoren
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Culture How the premiere of ‘Saturday Night Live’ was a great bar mitzvah present
For one self-professed comedy nerd, 'SNL' was its own rite of passage
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Theater A transparently Jewish musical is finally speaking its truth and singing its faith
Faith Soloway discusses the process of adapting the hit TV show 'Transparent' to the stage and putting it to music
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Culture How a Jewish quip got me banned from Facebook on Christmas
I spent Christmas in Facebook jail. It was lonely and I couldn’t talk to anyone except for my family who was sitting next to me on the couch. I spent most of this hard time in a reclining chair watching “WonderWoman84” (added punishment), “Top Chef” episodes, and other offerings, so perhaps it was not as…
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Culture We could stop the violence in America — if only Gregory Peck were president again
Maybe the Milwaukee Bucks were just following the lead of the Boston Celtics’ superstar Amazing Grace Smith when they decided to boycott their NBA playoff game against the Orlando Magic on August 28th. Back in 1987, when Amazing Grace, the league’s leading scorer, quit basketball, he himself was only following the mission of his new…
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Culture I speak for the tribe who followed Carl Reiner
When I was growing up on Long Island, our house had a living room with orange-fabric couches (it was the 70s after all) and an upright piano flanked by two dark brown wood cabinets. On one side was a bar where my dad would have a Gin & Tonic (with a Stella D’oro breadstick) every…
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