Max Gross
By Max Gross
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Israel News Party Faithful Raise Their Glasses for Bush’s State of the Union
Marc Melzer, a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, was in his apartment with a few friends last Tuesday night, watching President Bush’s State of the Union address. The president inveighed against rogue states that harbored terrorists. These states, the president said, could supply terrorists with “nukular weapons.” Suddenly the room went wild. More…
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News Swinging With The First Amendment
‘I’m going to tell you the dirtiest word you’ve ever heard on stage,” comedian Lenny Bruce used to begin one of his nightclub routines. “It is just disgusting. … It’s a four-letter word, starts with an ‘s’ and ends with a ‘t.’” After begging the audience not to tell his mother that he would actually…
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Israel News Bringing Spanish Literature to Life — in English
Edith Grossman has long played Sancho Panza to Gabriel García Márquez’s Don Quixote. For the past 15 years or so, Grossman has been Márquez’s translator — turning his magical-realist Colombian novels into straightforward, lyrical English. Now Grossman is also Sancho Panza to the original Don Quixote. Anyone who has browsed through their local Barnes &…
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Culture Israel Advocacy Coalition Targeting High Schools
In response to what many are calling the sad state of Israel advocacy on college campuses, prominent Jewish communal officials and educators have settled on a new approach to teaching undergraduates how to defend the Jewish state: Start in high school. About 60 juniors and seniors from Jewish high schools in the New York metropolitan…
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Israel News Family Recipes Get Put to the Test in the Chicken Soup Challenge
Think that the golden chicken broth that your mother fed you when you were sick is the greatest panacea in the world? The most delicious? The most salubrious? Prove it. On January 8 the National Jewish Outreach Program announced its Chicken Soup Challenge, a national contest to find the best chicken soup in America (beside…
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News Jewish Paper Uses ‘Latin Flavor’ To Fill a Void
Jacqueline Donado, managing editor of the New York-based Spanish-language newspaper El Diario La Prensa, has seen many Spanish papers pop up in the city. “There are monthly, biweekly, weeklies, dailies,” Donado said. “There are Mom and Pop newspapers…. [There are] papers that are going by nationality; there is one for taxi drivers, one for elevator…
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News Activist Esther Leah Ritz, Champion of the Underdog, Dies at 85
Esther Leah Ritz, the first female president of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and a prominent figure in Jewish philanthropic and liberal causes for decades, died in a Milwaukee hospital last Friday at age 85. The cause of death was pneumonia. At various times Ritz was president of the Jewish Community Centers Association, chair of Friends…
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News Card-Carrying Members of the Tribe Enjoy ‘Kosher Advantage’
Do you know Teddy Kahn? Probably not. That’s why he carries the Kosher Advantage card. Kahn never leaves home without it. The Kosher Advantage card occupies its own special place in Kahn’s wallet, and it is always with him when he eats out. Now two months old, the Kosher Advantage card works a bit like…
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