Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze Jackie Mason Will Likely Skip His Daughter’s New Play
In 1987, comedian Jackie Mason anticipated the title of his 1996 Broadway show, “Love Thy Neighbor,” by fathering a child with playwright Ginger Reiter (best known, according to TheaterOnline, for the play “Pickles,” based on their 10-year affair). The product of that union is about to tell her own side of the story, The New…
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Food Oy Vey: A D.C. Restaurant Serves Up Jewish-Irish Fusion
“Others have a nationality,” the writer Brendan Behan famously noted. “The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.” We also share a love of corned beef and raucous fiddle music — think folk and klezmer. Still, an Irish-Jewish fusion restaurant seems like a stretch. Enter the Star and Shamrock, a “modern-day neighborhood melting pot” on…
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Food Jewish-Style Deli Not So Jewish
David’s Brisket House in Brooklyn sounds like your archetypal New York Jewish deli. Its website features a nearly pornographic shot of luscious pastrami on rye with sliced pickles. It’s got a Crown Heights address for serious street cred. And it even closes Friday for religious observances. Except the observances are Muslim prayers. And the owners…
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Culture Modernism 2.0 in a Post-Holocaust Novel
In a Dark Wood: A Novel By Marcel Möring***| Translated by Shaun Whiteside HarperCollins, 464 pages, $24.99 With sly perversity, Marcel Möring declares on the overleaf of “In a Dark Wood,” his surreal, sprawling post-Holocaust epic: “This is a novel. Nothing in this book is true.” While that statement might be factually accurate — Möring’s…
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Israel News Of Religion and Rubbers
‘It keeps adults safe.” That’s the explanation Rabbi Melissa Simon hears parents give kids about the bowl of colorful condoms in the front office of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, the West Village gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender shul where she’s a rabbinical intern. And at “Faith in Latex,” a panel on religion and rubbers hosted…
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The Schmooze Marijuana Kingpin Lived With His Orthodox Parents
Looks like we’ve got true-life sequel material for “Holy Rollers,” the just-released film in which a young Orthodox Jew gets lured into drug running. Bail was denied Thursday for Jonathan Braun, the 27-year-old Staten Island boychik accused of smuggling more than 100,000 kilos of marijuana from Canada into the U.S. — all while living with…
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Culture Springing From The Tar Heels
The long history and deep roots of Jews in the Tar Heel state are coming to life in an ambitious new multimedia project that kicks off June 14 with an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. “Down Home,” which encompasses a slickly produced documentary film and handsomely illustrated coffee-table book, celebrates…
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The Schmooze Israeli Apartheid Group Banned From Toronto Gay Pride Parade
The decision today to ban a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from Toronto’s Gay Pride parade is drawing fire from some gay activists for “censorship” – but has earned praise for “censoring a hateful message” from the Canadian B’nai Brith. At a raucous press conference earlier — interrupted by cries of “Shame!” and “Resign!”…
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