Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze Malcolm McLaren, Former Sex Pistols Manager, Dies
The message on Malcolm McLaren’s Web site today is “Malcolm will return shortly”. That’s not likely, since the legendary punk impresario – he thrust the Sex Pistols, which he managed, on an unsuspecting public – died yesterday in Switzerland of cancer at the age of 64. But the impish humor behind the posting sounds a…
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Israel News Israel’s Competing Gay Tours
Tel Aviv has become the destination du jour for gay and lesbian travelers. So hot has the White City become that, as The New York Observer reported on March 26, rival gay tour promoters are fighting it out with competing spring trips. In one corner: Michael Lucas, the world’s leading Zionist gay pornographer, whose groundbreaking…
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News When in Toronto…
The Toronto Jewish Film Festival began in 1993 with 30 films and one screen, and has mushroomed into the world’s largest Semitic cinema event, with 100 programs unspooling at four venues. The festival is notable for its fearless programming choices; executive director Helen Zukerman and her crew have consistently opted for provocative content over political…
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Israel News Report: Landlords Behaving Badly
After a five-year absence, the Village Voice’s list of “New York’s Ten Worst Landlords” has made a comeback. And, as it has been every year that the list has run — for the quarter-century I’ve lived in New York — my first reaction was to scan the roster for Jewish names. Think of it as…
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Culture Hot Lands of Clay
Considering how often the word “fragile” is used to describe Israel — its politics, peace, peoplehood — it makes perfect sense that a new exhibit at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum uses ceramic art to explore modern life there. “From the Melting Pot Into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel,” organized with the Ceramic Artists Association of…
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Israel News An Unorthodox (Orthodox) Production
You won’t find Congregation Me’Ever Lechomos in a directory of Toronto’s Orthodox synagogues. That’s because the name’s an alias for downtown’s Theatre Passe Muraille, now convincingly dressed up as a synagogue for its latest production. “Yichud” — the title refers to the room where Orthodox newlyweds enjoy their first private moments — depicts familial dramas…
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Life New Haimish Brooklyn Deli Imports Canadian Bagels
The news that Boerum Hill’s nouveau deli Mile End finally opened Monday warmed the hearts of Montreal expats — like me — across the tri-state area. Founded by a pair of 20-something Montreal transplants, Mile End will serve haimish old country food like smoked meat (house-cured here), karnatzel (thin Romanian sausage sticks) and Montreal-style sour…
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News From Jewish Exiles to Sexual Exiles
A former executive of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is about to shake up the world of refugee aid. Longtime refugee advocate, Neil Grungras, founded the Organization for Refuge, Asylum, & Migration last January and it is on the verge of launching a historic global survey about prevailing attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
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