Ron Dicker
By Ron Dicker
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News Chai Rollers Take Four Seats at the Table in Finals of World Series of Poker
In defiance of the odds on a scale of, say, holding a royal flush, four of the nine players who will be sitting at the final table at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas are Jewish. “It’s probably a fluke,” said Jeff Shulman, one of the competitors vying for the $8.6 million top…
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News Jews With Tattoos
Craig Dershowitz started with a Kabbalah Ladder on his back, then followed with the word ZION on his right forearm. His entire torso remains a mural in progress. Marisa Kakoulas considers herself a Grecian urn, ready to be decorated. The suit she wears as an attorney conceals her black-ink tapestry, making her feel like a…
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News Jews in Fantasy Baseball: The Chosen People Are Up at Bat
Matthew Soffer, a 29-year-old rabbinical student from Philadelphia, was the rookie manager of a weak fantasy league baseball team until he turned to his faith and traded for a player of Jewish heritage. His chosen one was Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers slugger whose Israeli-born father is Jewish (but whose mother isn’t). “His bat is…
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Israel News Cracking ‘The Da Vinci Code’
What’s a Jewish boy from Brooklyn doing provoking Christians worldwide? It’s a matter to which Akiva Goldsman didn’t give much thought while adapting “The Da Vinci Code” for the screen. “You sort of have to put your head down and do the work,” the writer told the Forward, “and politics has to come second to…
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Culture Walking a Fine Line at Sundance
Laughing in the face of tragedy is a time-honored theme in film. Yet joking about one of the ultimate tragedies of contemporary history, the Holocaust, is still a rare, potentially radioactive device (and, some would say, for good reason). Jerry Seinfeld made out with his girlfriend in a theater during “Schindler’s List,” and his friend…
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