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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Israel’s Freedom Fries Moment
It was, I suppose, predictable. In Israel there is now a movement to change the name of Turkish coffee, or kafey turki, as it is known in Hebrew. Bad enough, the movement’s proponents say, to be insulted by the Turkish government, denounced by its prime minister and have one’s flag burned by Turkish demonstrators without…
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Shakespeare in the Shtibl
In 2006, film director Eve Annenberg stumbled onto Chulent, a weekly gathering of young, alienated Orthodox and formerly Orthodox Jews in Manhattan. She had no idea that she was about to embark on one of the most improbable movies of her career. Four years later she is sending DVDs of her feature-length motion picture “Romeo…
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Communication Breakdown
For The Soul Of France: Culture Wars In The Age Of Dreyfus By Frederick Brown Knopf, 336 pages, $28.95 The Dreyfus case has never been out of season. A century and more has passed since the conviction by court-martial for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the subsequent legal campaign on his behalf, the ultimate reversal…
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Minority Man
‘The Monayer Family: Three Videos by Dor Guez,” on exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York until September 7, presents a series of short films that offer an intimate, subtly critical assessment of contemporary multicultural Israel. Guez’s films consider the Christian Arab population — a minority within a minority — whose social identity is…
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Where God Meets Green
For kids, summer days at Eden Village Camp, some 50 miles north of New York City in Putnam Valley, N.Y., will be different from days at other Jewish overnight camps. Oh, there will be swimming in the camp’s lake and plenty of hiking. But instead of games of tennis there will be pickling and permaculture….
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Enter The Green Zionists
The Green Zionist Alliance is an unlikely force in Jewish environmental politics. Run by volunteers and largely unknown, the New York-based group heads into the 2010 World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem in June armed with seven resolutions, touching on topics from Israeli farming and sustainable business to renewable energy and climate change. At the previous…
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At 79, a Grad Student Who Is Tackling Transit Problems
In most ways, Ralph Montview is a typical graduate student. On a recent weekday, he looked tired after a late night of proofing his master’s thesis, “Elements for Design of a Public Transit System.” His apartment in Anaheim, Calif., was messy, with books and papers piled on every available surface. He even jokingly insinuated that…
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Eco-Friendly Nuptials
Kate Harrison and Barry Muchnick knew that when they got married, their wedding ceremony would need to reflect their environmentalism. After all, they had met at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. “We really tried to green everything,” said Harrison of her 2007 outdoor wedding in Garrison, N.Y., “and we tried to…
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A Tree Evangelist Who Connects Heaven and Earth
During a Sabbath evening service one Friday in February, Seth Goldstein and his 9-year-old son, Ozi, sat with their eyes closed in the synagogue in Olympia, Wash., where Goldstein is the rabbi. From the bimah, Nalini Nadkarni asked congregants to imagine a tree that was important to them. She described the maple trees that had…
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June 25, 2010
100 Years Ago in the Forward Last week, 29-year-old East Third Street resident Dvoyre Ortshent abandoned her husband and five children and fled to Philadelphia with her lover, Julius Hillesberg, who had lived with the couple as a boarder. This week, the two were arrested as they were discovered buying foodstuffs in a Locust Street…
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Synagogues in the Garden
In the early 13th century, Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna wrote, “…whoever pays attention to a beautiful tree doesn’t concentrate on his study and interrupts it. All the more so in prayer, which needs greater concentration; one cannot concentrate as required when looking at trees drawn on the wall.” Today, with the “greening” of…
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