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Lego rabbis, Hasidic coloring books: How toy makers and publishers created an alternative Jewish universe
A new book explores the toys, music and kids’ books found in strictly Orthodox homes.
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Film & TV In ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Jimmy cries antisemitism at a country club
It was an angle he never worked - cause only Saul Goodman could.
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Grocery store displays are full of matzo — but none of it is kosher for Passover. Why?
It begs the question: Why does non kosher-for-Pesach matzo even exist?
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Iris Apfel’s bold new H&M fashion launch is perfect for Passover
Iris Apfel is living proof that it’s never too late to follow your dreams. Today, at age 100, she’s launching a fashion collection with retail giant H&M. Yet until she was 84, she’d never worked professionally in fashion as a designer or model; her career was in interior decorating. Her brightly patterned, brazenly clashing outfits…
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At 90, Elaine May remains a deceptively and defiantly Jewish artist
The Jewish quotient in the creative works of director, screenwriter and actress Elaine May, whose 90th birthday will be feted April 21, remains oddly misunderstood. Yet May, as recent recipient of a Tony award, honorary Oscar, and National Medal for the Arts, is widely esteemed in the showbiz community. The Academy Award is a trifle…
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Barry Manilow gives us harmony and Hebrew in a sometimes hammy musical
If “Memory” wasn’t already a marquee name in showtunes, Barry Manilow probably would have used the title for a song in his new musical. Now playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of German singer-comedians, is also all about memory – both history’s short recall for a popular…
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Emerging from a ‘twilight world,’ Delia Ephron offers a harrowing story of loss and survival
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life By Delia Ephron Little, Brown and Company, 304 pages, $29 If you’re expecting a light, frothy read, Delia Ephron’s “Left on Tenth” isn’t your book. You’ll need to brace for (emotional) impact if you pick up this memoir of late-life love and life-threatening illness. Ephron was the…
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Gilbert Gottfried, an iconic and inimitable comedic voice, dies at 67
Gilbert Gottfried, the onetime voice of the Aflac duck, the “Aladdin” parrot Iago and the filthiest roaster on any dais, has died at the age of 67. On the comedian’s Twitter page, Gottfried’s family announced that he had passed after a long illness. pic.twitter.com/STHhfpVSKU — Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) April 12, 2022 Known for his adenoidal…
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Is Neil Simon still funny? (Hint: This may be a trick question.)
Feeling cheerfully kvetchy about Neil Simon is a very Neil Simon way to feel
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Can four stylish yeshiva lads find love and karmic bliss amid the temptations of ‘New Hebron?’
At the start of the second season of the Israeli hit comedy, “Shababnikim,” or “The New Black,” as it’s called in English, our four favorite TV yeshiva bochers — Avinoam, Gedalia, Dov Lazer, and Meir — have landed in the neighborhood of Rehavia, on what residents call the last secular street in Jerusalem. Kicked out…
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‘Tokyo Vice’ is a portrait of the reporter as a terrible coworker
It’s Jake Adelstein’s first week as a reporter at The Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Tokyo’s biggest newspapers, and the protagonist of “Tokyo Vice,” a new crime miniseries from HBO, is already questioning how things are done. Jake (Ansel Elgort) is covering a stabbing, and he writes that the victim was murdered — as he certainly…
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