Lisa Keys
By Lisa Keys
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Culture On the Small Screen, Kitsch and a Witch
That pesky, mysterious Lilith. As the mythical first wife of Adam who, as his equal, refused to lie beneath him, she’s been a source of wonder and inspiration for thousands of years. Demonic references in the Talmud and Kabbalist texts have led many to fear her; more recently, she’s been worshipped as a goddess and…
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Culture The Making Of Martyrs
One day last spring was much like any other for Mohanned Abu Tayyun. He awoke early at his Nablus home, got dressed, washed his face and had his usual breakfast. Similarly, throughout Israel, most local families were occupied with workaday morning rituals: drinking coffee, reading the paper, doling goodbye pecks to loved ones. And yet…
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News ‘Metrosexy’ Son Takes the Helm of Condé Nast’s Cargo
As the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman has led a series of high-profile battles against antisemitism, Holocaust denial and, most recently, Mel Gibson and “The Passion of the Christ.” And now, his son Ariel Foxman, 30, is stepping into the limelight with what some might see as an equally challenging mission: enticing…
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News A Congregation Sings the Blues As Synagogue Goes on Market
CLARKSDALE, Miss. — This Delta town is perhaps most famous for its crossroads, the intersection of Highway 49 and Highway 61, where, according to legend, 1930s bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. Today, about a mile from that notorious site, a different kind of shocking transaction is underway: Like Johnson’s soul, Congregation…
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News Southern Teachers Hit the Road To Educate Rural Communities
GREENVILLE, Miss.—When Lauren Antler accepted a position with Teach for America, she knew that her two-year assignment would find her teaching in a public school classroom five days a week, likely in a rural location far from her home in New York City. But when Antler, 23, landed in the Mississippi Delta community of Greenville…
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News Double Trouble: The ‘Miss Adventure’ Sisters
You’re daydreaming while sitting in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway and you’re suddenly struck with (literally) a novel idea: What if you took the saucy, single-girl-on-the-prowl attitude of the HBO hit comedy “Sex and the City” and merged it with the 1980s children’s book fad, the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series? Seems like a…
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News Discovering Power Points
Thursday, like every day in New York City, was busy. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up; the Mets had won; nobody was watching “Gigli,” and everyone was still talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger running for governor of California. But seconds before 4:11 p.m., the lights went out — and everything stopped. The thrill of being in…
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News Dr. Laura Loses Her Religion
With 12 million Americans tuning in daily, controversial syndicated radio-show host Laura Schlessinger — known to all as “Dr. Laura” — is arguably the best-known Orthodox Jew in the United States. Rather, she was. In a shocking if little-noticed revelation, Schlessinger — who very publicly converted to Judaism five years ago — opened “The Dr….
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