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At 90, the Man Behind Mr. Magoo Serves Up Irreverent Debut Novel
Bowl of Cherries By Millard Kaufman McSweeney’s, 326 pages, $22. It’s hard to imagine a better poster-boy for a bumbling foreign policy that leaves copious wreckage in its wake than good ol’ Mr. Magoo. In recent years, an editorial in The New Yorker used the myopic cartoon character as a stand-in for President Bush, and…
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The Military in Flux
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground By Robert D. Kaplan Random House, 448 pages, $27.95. Soon after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Robert D. Kaplan, a travel writer who had long been attracted to the more volatile corners of the world, packed his…
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Tracing Galicia: A Talk With Omer Bartov
The great and yet never autonomous province of Galicia was a bridge to the East from Europe. Today, Galicia is centered in Ukraine, with a significant portion partitioned into neighboring Poland. The proper name of this phantom land was once “The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,” named after its principal Ukrainian, or Ruthenian, cities. At…
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Hora – A History Of The Most Famous Jewish Dance
‘If you have ever been to a Jewish wedding,” New York Times science writer Natalie Angier wrote two weeks ago, “you know that sooner or later the ominous notes of ‘Hava Nagila’ will sound, and you will be expected to dance the hora. And if you don’t really know how to dance the hora, you…
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Seventh Night Yid Vid: We Are All Jelly Donuts
Israeli machismo died in Ramat Poleg.
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Sixth Night Yid Vid: Yidcore Channels Adam Sandler
For more on Australia’s greatest Jewish punk band, read this and this.
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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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