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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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A New Take on ‘Old Days’
Retirees like to go to the movies, but you wouldn’t know it from the offerings at the local Cineplex. Hollywood continues to aim hits like “The Dark Knight” and “Iron Man” at the desirable 15 to 35 age group, without giving much thought to mature audiences. While older moviegoers still may enjoy an action flick…
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When Jews Go Bad
The Jews of Sing Sing: Gotham Gangsters and Gonuvim By Ron Arons Barricade Books, 350 pages, $22.95. Sometimes it’s the little, everyday things that help you understand the big picture. You want to know what life was like as a Jewish gangster in 20th-century America? Ron Arons’s disjointed yet informative book, “The Jews of Sing…
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A Toast a Tish and a Tu B’Shvat
Now that elections have been held in America, we have them to look forward to in Israel. They will take place February 10, despite the attempt of Knesset member Ya’akov Litzman, the parliamentary head of the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Yisra’el party, to postpone them. Why? Because this year, the 10th of February comes out on the…
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November 14, 2008
100 Years Ago in the Forward In response to a query about the religious views of president-in-waiting William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, the outgoing president, has declared that a president’s religious orientation should not play a role in his ability to perform his duties. The query noted that Taft is a Unitarian and alleged that…
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The Goldblum Variations: Star Turn Charts a Troubled Survivor’s Journey From Hell to Health
Nearly 15 years after the release of “Schindler’s List” the Holocaust continues to figure prominently as a subject for the movies. The latest one, which had its official premiere at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, after a sneak peek at the prestigious Telluride film festival, is “Adam Resurrected.” The film, a drama set in…
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When Pushke Came To Shove
Let’s give credit where credit is due. American Jews happen to be an unusually inventive lot, especially when it comes to thinking up new forms of charitable giving. From the Kol Nidre appeal to UJA’s Super Sunday and from bingo nights at the local temple to online auctions, they have managed to redefine and contemporize…
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Hiding from Helsinki: An Action Thriller About a Writer of Thrillers
Captives by Todd Hasak-Lowy New York, Spiegel & Grau, 381pp, $24.95 Daniel Bloom, the protagonist of Todd Hasak-Lowy’s first novel, “Captives,” is a screenwriter who helps create specimens of an enjoyable, but frustrating genre of movie: the big-budget somewhat-better-than-average action thriller. Exhibit A, for Bloom: His most ambitious screenplay to date — also called “Captives”…
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Seeking Pizzazz in the Talmud
Mrs. C. Fletcher wastes no words. She writes, in an e-mail entitled “Pizzazz”: “My husband mentioned a passage from the Talmud, now forgotten, that included a similar word with a similar meaning. And dictionaries cite a (Jewish?) fashion designer of the 1930s as its inventor. What do you say?”I say, firstly, that if Mr. Fletcher…
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November 7, 2008
100 Years Ago in the foward In the wake of the horrific murder-suicide of wealthy Jewish banker Julius Nelson White and his mother, questions have arisen as to who will take possession of White’s half-million dollar estate. Will it be his Christian widow or his family? The exact reason that White stabbed his mother to…
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Rally!
Compiled by actual interviews with real live participants. Protesting Ahmadinejad: The United Nations, September 22, 2008. Click thumbnail for a full-size cartoon Eli Valley is finishing his first novel. His comics, which are frequently published in Jewcy, can be seen at his Web site at www.evcomics.com.
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Bargaining With the Devil: Documentary Focuses on Rudolf Kasztner, Shoa Traitor — Or Hero
It’s the controversy that won’t go away. Toward the end of World War II, the Nazi killing machine turned its attention to the Jews of Hungary, Europe’s largest surviving Jewish community. Journalist Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, a member of the community’s Aid and Rescue Committee, opened negotiations with Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer in charge of…
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