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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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Exhibit On Nazi Design Sparks Concern And Protests
A Netherlands museum’s multimedia exhibit on design in Nazi Germany has drawn protests and condemnation over fears that the show does not do enough to contextualize its provocative content. “Design of the Third Reich,” now running at the Design Museum Den Bosch in the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, features the propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl…
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Brian Epstein: A Timeline Of The Jewish Beatle
On this day in 1934, Brian Epstein — future manager of The Beatles — was born. In celebration of what would have been Epstein’s 85th birthday, here’s a look at some of the highlights of the life of “The Fifth Beatle.” 1934 Born on Yom Kippur to Jewish parents who lived on Rodney Street in Liverpool…
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Jonathan Safran Foer Is ‘Extremely And Very Cautiously Hopeful’ On Climate Change
On page 64 of Jonathan Safran Foer’s latest book, “We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast,” he admits he’s been burying the lede. “This is a book about the impacts of animal agriculture on the environment,” Foer writes, owning that he evaded the issue for 63 pages because he feared readers would…
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How Judaism Helped Me Find Meaning In Washington, D.C.
Sarah Hurwitz, who worked in the White House from 2009 to 2017, served as First Lady Michelle Obama’s head speechwriter. Her book, “Here All Along,” from which the following essay has been excerpted, describes the author’s spiritual journey as she rediscovers and re-embraces her Judaism. I know I disappoint people when I give them honest…
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Netflix’s ‘The Spy’ Raises The Bar For Mossad Thrillers – But It Doesn’t Break New Ground
In July of 2018, the Mossad recovered a battered Eterna-Matic Centenaire 61 wristwatch from Syria. The timepiece belonged to Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who, over several years in the 1960s, gained the confidence of Syrian generals and politicos before they publicly hanged him for conspiracy in 1965. The watch was returned to his widow….
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November 13: Baltimore: Reflections Of An Orthodox Journalist
Join Forward Life editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt.” Avital, who also teaches journalism at Yeshiva University’s Stern College, will explain the challenges of speaking truth to power, reporting on her own community, and navigating modernity and tradition at Beth Tfiloh Congregation on November 13 at 7 p.m. After her talk, there will be a Q&A led by…
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How Michael Bloomberg Keeps Reinventing Himself
Michael Bloomberg might be a more compelling figure on paper than he ever was in person. Coming from a family of humble means in Medford, MA, and betraying no great promise as a student, Bloomberg managed to make his way into Johns Hopkins’ prestigious engineering program and, from there, Harvard Business School. He got a…
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Lauren Bacall’s 6 Greatest Moments
Born Betty Joan Perske, the daughter of Jewish parents in the Bronx, Lauren Bacall would soon became the epitome of New York cool. She was the slim, caustic partner of Humphrey Bogart, whom she married at the age of twenty and starred with in such films as “To Have and Have Not,” “Dark Passage,” “Key…
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Pregnant At 57, A Woman Finds Tragedy And Reconciliation
On Division: A Novel By Goldie Goldbloom Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 271 pages; $26 The world conjured by Goldie Goldbloom’s “On Division” lies somewhere between realism and magical realism, at once vaguely possible and highly improbable. That liminal space seems just right for this elegant novel about a Hasidic woman cocooned by her close-knit faith…
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Yes, Really: There’s A Sculpture Of Hitler Praying At Winston Churchill’s Birthplace
Update, September 14, 10:40 a.m.: This article has been updated subsequent to the September 14 theft of Catellan’s “America,” a 19-karat gold toilet. Winston Churchill’s birthplace has just received an unlikely visitor: One Adolf Hitler. The Italian artist and provocateur Maurizio Cattelan’s sculpture “Him,” which depicts a kneeling, child-sized Führer, has been placed before a…
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Acclaimed British Novelist Howard Jacobson: ‘It’s An Anxious Time For Jews’
JTA — Howard Jacobson is a funny writer. He has penned several comedic novels, and many commentators said his 2010 Man Booker prize-winning work “The Finkler Question” was the first humorous book to win the prestigious award in decades. But Jacobson, one of the most celebrated authors in the United Kingdom and an outspoken liberal…
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