Lisa Keys
By Lisa Keys
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News From Start-Ups to Letdowns
Khaleil Isaza Tuzman races into his corner office, mid-conversation on his BlackBerry cell phone. An hour and a half late for a Forward interview, he mouths the words “I’m sorry” to a reporter as he takes off his jacket and glances at his computer screen. At first blush it could be 1999, when Tuzman was…
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News Repackaging the Old World as a Tourist Attraction
Imagine if you could cross a bridge and enter the world of our fathers. Literally. Imagine visiting a real-life shtetl, complete with a market, private homes, and a castle, as well as a cafe and a pharmacy. Imagine a place where children could play the games of their great-great-great-grandfathers and where adults might pray at…
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News A Cross-Cultural Trinity Brings Sephardic Art to the National Cathedral
At the outset, the trinity of groups coordinating a new exhibit seems unique to our multiethnic, globalized society; the embassy of Spain, in cooperation with the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, is presenting an exhibit on Sephardic Jewish culture at the Washington National Cathedral. And yet such cooperation is indicative of medieval Spain’s unique…
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Israel News Rabbi, Can You Spare a Dime? Coping With Hard Times in a Town That Was Just Getting By
LYNBROOK, N.Y. — Rabbi Howard Diamond is smoking a cigarette, standing outside his synagogue, Congregation Beth David. It’s just a few blocks from the Lynbrook stop on the Long Island Rail Road, within rattling distance of the overhead tracks. It’s late and he’s tired, but there is always, always work to be done in this…
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News No Simple Task: Breaking Television’s Jewish Barrier
Rabbi Irwin Kula is no stranger to public exposure. As president of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, he lectures constantly across the country. He’s written several books and has been a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Right now, though, Kula is adjusting to an entirely new order of notoriety. He’s…
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News Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, Still Matchmaking After All These Years
Someone who makes a successful shidduch, or marriage match, is called a matchmaker. Someone who makes more than a thousand such matches is called Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. Jungreis, who claims to have made an average of one shidduch a week for the past 30 years, shares her insights into marital bliss in her third book,…
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News Where Celebrity Meets the Mystical World
At the release party last month for the latest Kabbalah Centre tome, “The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul,” the talk was not of Jewish mystical practices, but of Madonna. Madonna, Madonna! The Material Mom lent her unparalleled star power to the affair, during which the media hordes waited hours behind velvet ropes…
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News ‘A Place… Close to Our Hearts’
TEREZIN, CZECH REPUBLIC — Theresienstadt, the Nazis’ “model” ghetto, whose remains were nearly washed away by the waters of the Elbe and Eger rivers in last August’s disastrous floods, is on its way back to model condition. Thanks to the generosity of Jews throughout the world who answered cries for help, the site through which…
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