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They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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Books Publisher Drops ‘How They Rule The World’ Book After Being Told It Had Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
(JTA) — A major British publisher ceased producing copies of a Spanish author book, which critics said contains anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Penguin Random House UK on Thursday announced it would no longer print and ship Pedro Baños’ “How They Rule the World: The 22 Secret Strategies of Global Power,” which was published in English in…
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Happy 93rd Birthday, Mel Brooks!
At 93, Mel Brooks is a lot of things: A Kennedy Center award recipient, a titan of both stage and screen even a vampire grandfather in t “Hotel Transylvania 3,” but for all these distinctions he reduces himself to one thing. “I’m just a Jew comic,” he told David Denby in a profile published in…
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The Unbearable Happiness Of Natalia Ginzburg
The publication of a newly translated novel by the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg is a major literary event — as the blurbs from Italo Calvino, Rachel Cusk and Zadie Smith festooning “Happiness, As Such” attest. Ginzburg’s American admirers include Sigrid Nunez, author of “The Friend,” the National Book Award-winning novel which includes an epigraph from…
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Michael Chabon Named Showrunner For Patrick Stewart-Led ‘Star Trek: Picard’
Lifelong Trekkie and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has taken the captain’s chair on an upcoming “Star Trek” series for CBS All Access. Deadline reports that Chabon has been named the showrunner of “Star Trek: Picard,” which will follow the new journeys of the Shakespeare-quoting Starship Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard. Patrick Stewart, who rose to…
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Surprise: The Dutch Rapper Who Used ‘Anne Frank’ As Her Stage Name Is Anti-Semitic
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch rapper who went by the stage name ‘Anne Frank’ said Wednesday that she will change the name following an outcry and the revelation of past anti-Semitic statements. The 25-year-old performer, whose real name may be Anne van der Does, according to the GeenStijl website, said she was shortening her stage name…
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Gamers Rejoice: Bernie Sanders Now Has A Twitch Account
As any 2020 presidential contender might tell you, the youth vote is important. Which explains why Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, hot off announcing a plan to cancel $1.6 trillion of student debt, is planning a series of videos to be streamed on Twitch, a tremendously popular live-streaming platform that caters to gamers and is known…
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The Forward Racks Up 15 Awards At The Rockowers
The 38th Annual Simon Rockower Awards for excellence in Jewish journalism has announced its 2019 winners. The Forward walked away with 15 winners in 11 categories. Winners — which represented Division A, for publications with circulations of 15,000 or over — range in area from investigative reporting, cultural criticism, personal essays, feature writing and design….
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Spike Lee’s Wild, Wonderful World Of Jews
“It’s cheap, I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, ‘How I’m doing,’ chocolate-egg-cream-drinking, bagel and lox, B’nai B’rith asshole!” Not bad … but what about “neurotic,” “dreidel-spinning,” “self-hating,” and all the rest? Then again, the Korean grocer who hurls anti-Semitic slurs at the camera midway through Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” which…
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A New Novel Co-Authored By Stan Lee Is Coming This Fall
Stan Lee may have made his final film cameo in “Avengers: Endgame,” but we haven’t heard the last of him. The late Marvel publisher, who died last November at the age of 95, has a new book coming this fall — and it’s not a comic. “A Trick of the Light,” one of Lee’s final…
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The Berlin Jewish Museum’s Director Resigned Over A BDS Controversy. Scholars Are Rallying To Support Him.
Days after the resignation of Peter Schäfer from his role as director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, nearly 500 scholars from around the world voiced support of his leadership and admiration for his contributions to the field of Jewish studies. Schäfer resigned on June 14 following backlash over a tweet, sent from the Museum’s Twitter account,…
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Nintendo Opens Its Second Official Store In Tel Aviv
We hope Mario likes shawarma. On June 24, Nintendo opened its second ever brick-and-mortar store in Tel Aviv, Israel. The video game company, known for its stable of colorful characters and inventive hardware, launched its first official retail location in 2005 at Rockefeller Center. With the Tel Aviv location, its second ever, we sense a…
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