Sarah Kricheff
By Sarah Kricheff
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Israel News Letter to Israel
The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet will be getting a lot of attention this year. The samech, which represents the number 60, has taken form in California as an 8-feet tall, 400-pound sculpture. Created by the artist Kingsley, the piece — an interactive musical work of art— was commissioned to commemorate Israel’s 60th anniversary….
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Israel News Yeshiva Boy’s ‘Fantasy’ Becomes Real
In the early 1960s, a nice Jewish boy from New York’s Long Island sat in a yeshiva day school and wrote his first Tony acceptance speech, while his teachers droned on in the background. That daydreamer, Neil Goldberg, has not yet had the chance to proclaim those words to the world, but his lifelong fantasy…
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Israel News Fran Drescher’s Musical Debut
The diva of Queens is crossing the East River once again. Fran Drescher, star of the hit 1990s TV show “The Nanny,” is making her debut with the New York Philharmonic next month. Drescher will play Morgen le Fey in a semi-staged production of “Camelot,” Lerner and Loewe’s 1960 musical. “I love the idea that…
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Israel News Forward Building Returns to Its Roots
For more than six decades, the Forward building — home to this newspaper from 1912 to 1974 — was an epicenter of Jewish intellectual life and Yiddish culture. Today, the Lower East Side landmark and erstwhile socialist stronghold is better known for its multi-million dollar condos and celebrity buyers such as Spike Jonze and Tatum…
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Life Quantum Coincidence? Einstein Born on Pi Day
Some very clever people decided that today, March 14 (or 3.14), should be officially known to all as Pi Day, a celebration of that fascinating and maddening number that seemingly continues on randomly without end. Today is also the birthday of Albert Einstein, who was born in 1879. Random coincidence — or not? The BBC…
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Israel News Many Matzo Balls: Eating Contest Heads to Lone Star State
Has the world of competitive matzo ball eating moved south? The popular contest that was held for seven years straight at Ben’s deli in New York City came to an end in 2004, when Eric “Badlands” Booker claimed a victory. But now it seems that some people in Texas are ready to revive the tradition….
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Israel News Yiddish Sound Effects
The Shmooze is always struck when Yiddish words come up in unlikely places, but we were particularly surprised by this latest discovery: the word “hazarai” attached to a new sound-effects box that has become a top-seller in the world of rock music. The Stereo Memory Man With Hazarai is a guitar-effects pedal made by Electro-Harmonix,…
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Israel News Dems Name Mordecai Their Donkey
Just in time for Purim, the Democratic National Convention Committee this week announced the official mascot for the 2008 convention: a donkey named Mordecai. The mascot was chosen by a panel of judges at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. Mordecai and his handler, 12-year-old Sophie Herzog of Fairplay, Colo., will take part in…
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