Robert Strauss
By Robert Strauss
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News Reflections of a ‘Pussycat Dad’
When my elder daughter, Ella, was about 11, she worked up the courage to join our summer swimming pool’s diving team, despite being a carrier of the family gene for aquaphobia. The first dive meet of the year was at another pool, to which most of Ella’s friends belonged. They were all veritable flying fish…
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News The Sultan of Stats
Harvey Pollack was home from the service for only a few months when Bob Geasey, the public and sports information director at Temple University, from which Harvey had graduated with a degree in journalism, asked for some help keeping statistics for a few college basketball games at Philadelphia’s old Convention Hall. It was 1946, and…
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News By the Ocean, as a Famous Name Returns, Mostly Memories Remain
In mid-20th-century Atlantic City, there was nothing like Teplitzky’s for the Jewish tourist. Mostly, those tourists came from Philadelphia, Baltimore or New York, maybe for a week, maybe for a weekend, maybe only for Cousin Sammy’s wedding. “Teplitzky’s started as nothing but a little guest house at Pacific and Chelsea Avenues, but then they made…
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Fast Forward ‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks George Santos’ Jewish claims
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Yiddish ירושלימער אויסשטעלונג: סאָוועטיש־ייִדישער קינסטלער תּנחום קאַפּלאַנס רושמדיקע בילדער פֿון ייִדישן לעבןJerusalem exhibit: Soviet-Jewish artist Anatoli Kaplan’s striking depictions of Jewish life
קאַפּלאַנס בילדער באַגלייטן די גרויסע ייִדישע ראָמאַנען „פֿישקע דער קרומער“, „סטעמפּעניו“ און „דער פֿאַרכּישופֿטער שנײַדער“.
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Opinion Former Israeli cop on ‘former officers’ in Memphis and the failure of police reform
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News In Jerusalem neighborhoods bound together by terror, anger and trepidation about what comes next
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Fast Forward Pop artist paints ‘Simpsons’ characters as Holocaust victims outside Milan Holocaust memorial