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‘Friends,’ Tel Aviv-style
The quickest way to summarize Eytan Fox’s new film, “The Bubble,” is to describe it as an Israeli version of “Friends.” But unlike the characters in the American television show, these 20-somethings collide with reality in a dramatic fashion. Also, it’s not exactly a comedy. Noam, Yali and Lulu live and work on Sheinkin Street,…
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As the New Year Approaches, a Doctor Reflects on Body and Soul
As the Days of Awe approach, their themes — introspection, forgiveness and, of course, mortality — have undoubtedly started to swirl in many of our minds. But some of us, according to physician and author Sherwin B. Nuland, may have it a bit easier than others. Nuland says that the obligations of the High Holidays…
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Forverts and I
My relationship with the Forverts started in adolescence, when I first heard of it from one of my teachers at the Yidishe Schule in Mexico. He was a refugee from the war and an old-fashioned intellectual with a Sisyphus complex: His fanciful, lifelong mission was to introduce Mexican Jewish youngsters to Yiddish. In class, we…
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One Tale, Many Ways To Tell It
“A Historical Chronicle: The Life of the European Jew in the 20th Century,” an exhibit that runs until September 18 at the Krasdale Gallery in White Plains, N.Y., depicts the rocky journey of Eastern European Jews from the shtetl to the concentration camps to modern-day Israel. The show consists of drawings, collages, photography and sketches,…
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Picking @ Shtrudel
In his August 19 column, The New York Times’s venerable language commentator William Safire cites a few examples, taken from a Web site, of words used in different languages to denote the e-mail sign @ that is known in English as “at.” In Czech, writes Mr. Safire, @ is zavinac, meaning “a herring wrapped around…
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From Freeing Tibet to Rebooting Judaism
Erin Potts got her start in activism at a very young age — and on a very big stage. When Potts was only 21, she co-founded the Milarepa Fund with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. The fund used music to raise awareness about the plight of Chinese-occupied Tibet, organizing a series of star-studded Tibetan…
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Music Northern State’s Rap Against J.A.P.
Young Jeezy may prefer Cristal and Northern State may “enjoy a lemonade spritzer with Eliot Spitzer,” but outside of alcohol choices, stereotypes concerning hip-hop stars and J.A.P.’s are surprisingly similar. That theme is one that concerns Northern State, a trio of female rappers from Long Island (two of whom are Jewish). Instead of dwelling on…
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Film & TV Scarlett on Woody: ‘We Have a Lot in Common’
She’s a sultry starlet. He’s a neurotic nebbish. But really Scarlett Johansson and Woody Allen are just two peas in a pod, the actress tells USA Today: “I just adore Woody,” she says. “We have a lot in common. We’re New Yorkers, Jewish. We have a very easygoing relationship. “I’ve seen things like, ‘Are you…
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August 24, 2007
100 Years Ago In the Forward Solomon Teitler and his wife, Celeste, were recently arrived immigrants from Vienna. Because the Teitlers were people of means, they were able to find a good home quickly. Shortly thereafter, while enjoying themselves in a Hungarian café on Manhattan’s Second Avenue, they made the acquaintance of one Arthur Levy,…
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Books Goodbye, Grace
Writer Grace Paley died yesterday. A New York Times obit says that, “In a sense, her work was about what happened to the women that Roth and Bellow and Malamud’s men had loved and left behind.” Paley was 84.
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A Theater of War
Shloyme Zynstein was a powerful force in the rebirth of Jewish culture in the displaced persons camps of postwar Germany. Zynstein, his wife, Rachel, and their two young children lived at the Bamberg DP Camp in the American section of occupied Germany from 1945 to 1947, and it was there that he founded the Bamberg…
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