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Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You'
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Fifth Night Yid Vid: Al Qaeda Hanukkah
Maybe this guy was right after all.
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Lauren Redniss Draws Steven Heller
Lauren Redniss pays homage to design maven Steven Heller. Click here to view the larger image. The Masters Series: Steven Heller runs through December 8, 2007, at the Visual Arts Museum 209 East 23rd Street, New York, N.Y., 10010. Call 212-592-2145
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December 7, 2007
100 Years Ago in the forward Eight months ago, Mary Ershansky’s husband abandoned her. He left Ershansky, a young, penniless Jewish mother, and the couple’s two children with nothing. A neighbor, Mrs. Cohen, took them in after they were evicted, but Ershansky’s situation hasn’t improved. She has a 1-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy. The…
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Third Night Yid Vid: Hanukkah as an Excuse to Pester NBA Stars
It’s good to know that Hanukkah has the Ron Artest seal of approval. Here’s another video from the same guy from last year: Below is a video of a much funnier Jewish nudnik pestering NBA stars. Alas, it doesn’t have anything to do with Hanukkah:
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Spinning Into the Spotlight
Breaking news! The humble, unassuming dreidel, the four-sided top associated with Hanukkah, has finally come of age: It’s become a stamp. Now I don’t know about you, but the sight of an official American postal stamp that features a thimble-sized dreidel accompanied by bold lettering that spells out the word HAN-UK-KAH lifts my spirits. Hanukkah,…
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Rabbis and Chickens
Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930 By Ira Robinson University of Calgary Press, 200 pages, $34.95. On a wintry Friday afternoon, at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, I was taking leave of my father, who, in the last year of his life, was recovering from a severe bout…
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Where Once They Burned Books…
Most Jewish-related anniversaries in Germany are commemorations of tragedy. But this season marked 25 years since the establishment of a remarkable postwar creation — a feat of hope and foresight happily enjoying continued success. Located steps away from the shopping district on Kurfürstendamm, the Literaturhandlung is one of seven shops throughout Germany that make up…
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A Musical Midrashist
Composer Michael Isaacson has returned to his roots — and not quietly. In the 1960s, Isaacson helped instigate the American Jewish camp song movement before moving on to a career writing music for film and television — composing the themes for “Days of Our Lives,” “Hawaii Five-O” and “The Bionic Woman.” Eventually, Isaacson returned to…
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Star-Crossed Sabras
If You Awaken Love By Emuna Elon Translated by David Hazony The Toby Press, 229 pages, $14.95. Adolescence is the age of fanaticism. It is the age at which we first fall in love. It is the age at which our politics, and our tastes in God and in art, have often become the most…
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Even Zhlubs Can Turn Lemons Into Lemonade
The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories By Max Apple The Johns Hopkins University Press, 184 pages, $19.95. When it comes to Max Apple, what’s not to like? Over the past three decades, in six books and two screenplays, he has shown himself to be a funny guy. And he has always been —…
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A Bur in the Talmudist’s Side
Forward reader Kenny Steinman writes: “In a recent Talmud lesson, my friends and I came across the Hebrew term bur in the sense of an unlettered person or ignoramus. Might this be related to the biblical ba’ar, as in the verse in Psalms that begins, Ish ba’ar lo yeda, ‘The dull man does not know’?…
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