Royal Young
By Royal Young
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News Reclaiming My Lower East Side Roots
The upcoming expansion of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to include a kitchen where visitors can try immigrant fare is a welcome reminder of a lost neighborhood. My lost neighborhood. An infamous Ellis Island destination for generations of my Jewish ancestors, the Lower East Side was where my hippie parents chose to raise me…
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The Schmooze RIP Israeli Burger King
Israelis have been shunning Whoppers, causing Burger King to shut down all of its 55 locations over there, according to an article on JTA’s website. I never thought my health-conscious American Jewish parents’ refusal to let me eat any fast food growing up, echoed the sentiments of our homeland. Though unlike my folks, instead of…
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The Schmooze Britain’s NHS: Compare Your Boss to Hitler
Shocked health workers in the United Kingdom were asked recently to compare their bosses to Adolf Hitler. According to the Times Online, the survey demanded that staffers rate Hitler’s “coolness” on a scale of 1 to 5, as part of a ridiculously misguided training program for Britain’s National Health Service’s West Midlands Strategic Health Authority….
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