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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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In Utah, The Spooky Tale Of A Haunted Jewish Mausoleum
On the surface, there’s nothing remarkable about the Moritz mausoleum. On the grounds of the B’Nai Israel Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah, the simple stone vault is cut with its occupant’s last name on the lintel, and its metal door is bordered with floral motifs. It doesn’t appear to be worth a second look….
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Film & TV The Robert Moses Fetish Of Edward Norton
“Motherless Brooklyn” is the “La La Land” of noir, a work of exacting, exhausting competence that tries to summon the spirit of midcentury Hollywood films by recreating them shot for shot and trope for trope. Some things you’ll find in it: raincoated sleuths silhouetted by streetlights; garish neon mirrored in murky puddles; a pinstriped powerbroker…
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Robert Evans, Who Changed Movies And Saved Paramount, Dies At 89
The kid has left the picture. Robert Evans, the flamboyant movie mogul whose connoisseurship shaped the late 1960s and 1970s cinema landscape, died Saturday at the age of 89. Evans was both a new kind of movie producer and a throwback. He was not a dynastic studio head; he was Robert Shapera, the son of…
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How Soccer Explains Israel And Palestine (Mostly)
More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine By Nicholas Blincoe Bold Type Books, 304pp, $16.99 With its tag line of “two great tastes that taste great together,” Reese’s Pieces is actually an outlier as a successful combination product. More often, when you take two previously proven ingredients and combine them, your audience is…
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Is It Kosher To Boo The President?
President Donald Trump had a busy Sunday. He began it with a 9 AM press conference announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and ended the evening at Nationals Park, where he was booed by a crowd of baseball fans. Probably not how he thought the day would go. The jeering — courtesy…
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Music The Secret Jewish History Of Judy Garland
Fifty years after her passing, Judy Garland is having a moment. Renee Zellweger portrays her in the new feature film “Judy.” A new Showtime documentary, “Sid & Judy,” examines her life and career, focusing on her relationship with Sidney Luft, who served as her husband for 13 years and her manager for even longer. And…
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Kanye Features Kenny G, Name-Drops Barry Manilow ‘Jesus Is King’
Kanye West’s long-awaited ninth studio album, “Jesus Is King,” dropped Friday, breaking the internet in a manner only he and his wife, Kim Kardashian, know how to do. An extension of West’s Sunday Service gospel-rap group, it is Yeezy’s most explicitly religious record to date, nodding to old gospel standards and quoting scripture in between…
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The Real Mark Zuckerberg Is A Lot Less Impressive Than The Movie Version
Screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin has written for politicians, presidents, news anchors, colonels — all, for the most part, fictional. But Sorkin did have a rare real subject in his 2010 film “The Social Network,” gifting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with some of the most sardonic and arch lines in the entire Sorkin-verse. Lately, some…
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Without His Secret Identity, Will Superman Still Be Jewish?
The medium of comic books is a fundamentally American art form — and an overwhelmingly Jewish one. Superman, Batman, Captain America and the Fantastic Four all came from the minds and Bristol boards of Jewish-Americans, most of whom were first-generation. How these heroes spread from a New York nucleus of insular, and often nepotistic, artists’…
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In Asia, A Mania For Kafka
On October 26, an “Unfolding Kafka Festival” featuring art installations, dance performances and film screenings, will open in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is the third such biennial festival organized and directed by the Thai choreographer Jitti Chompee, marking a further advance of the Prague-born Jewish writer in Asia. Among its offerings is a…
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Behold The Treasures Of Our Print Archives
Jackie Kennedy holding up a copy of The Forward; animation characters created by the Fleischer studios; Lower East Side residents in a matza riot; everyday life in Algeria, Mandate Palestine, the Upper West Side of New York and the ball fields and boxing rings of America. All of these images were created by press plates,…
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