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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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The Secret Jewish History Of Baseball’s Opening Day
Like a New Year celebration, Major League Baseball’s annual opening day brings with it an opportunity to start afresh: to leave the past behind and to begin anew with a clean slate. Every team begins the new season as a reborn entity: The reigning World Champions and last year’s losers are equal going into the…
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Music Judge Dismisses All But One Of James Levine’s Defamation Claims In Met Case
It’s been a year since the Metropolitan Opera fired conductor James Levine, its longtime music director, following allegations of sexual abuse. In short order, Levine sued the Met for breach of contract and defamation. On Tuesday, March 26, Justice Andrea Masley of the New York State Supreme Court moved to dismiss all but one of…
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‘WALL’ Falls Too Much To One Side
“A country has reached a point at which 84% of its people are in favor of a wall along its borders,” writer David Hare tells us in the opening minutes of the 2017 animated film, “WALL,” which begins a week-long run at New York’s Film Forum April 3-9 as part of the theater’s admission-free week….
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From Alex Weiser, A New Musical Home For Yiddish
Composer Alex Weiser’s debut album “and all the days were purple” will be released by Cantaloupe Music on April 12th, with a release concert at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on April 9th. The music, which finds inspiration from secular Jewish poetry in Yiddish and English, chronicles a search for the divine while reflecting…
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Who To Read for Women’s History Month, Part Seven: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
“If it hadn’t been for Yasi!” Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote in “The Judge’s Will,” a short story she published in The New Yorker shortly before her death in 2013. “He was born in Delhi and in this house — a gloomy, inward-looking family property, built in the nineteen-twenties and crowded with heavy Indo-Victorian furniture inherited…
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Art As Sacklers Settle Opioid Lawsuit, Museums Cut Philanthropic Ties
Last week, in a sea change for the world of art philanthropy, three major museums decided to reject donations from the Sackler family. The museums, which announced their decisions over the course of three days, are the London-based National Portrait Gallery and Tate galleries and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Yesterday, the…
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At Alabama’s Legacy Museum, Echoes Of Holocaust Remembrance
In Berlin, you literally stumble onto the history of the Holocaust. It’s paved into the sidewalks as golden Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, that gleam bright with that nation’s dark history, spelling out the names of Nazism’s victims. Stroll through the Tiergarten, and you’ll see the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism…
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Who To Read For Women’s History Month, Part Six: Grace Aguilar
During her short life in 19th-century Britain, around the same time the Brontë sisters found they could only publish their masterly novels under male pseudonyms, Grace Aguilar wrote books with unabashedly feminine titles under her own name. And she gained real literary recognition for them. There were novels, among them “Woman’s Friendship,” “Home Influence” and…
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B-Movie Auteur Larry Cohen Dies At 77
Larry Cohen’s script for “Phone Booth” was dreamed up in the 1960s, filmed in less than two weeks in 2000 on a budget of $13 million and released in 2003 just before its premise – about a guy trapped in a phone booth – collapsed into period conceit with the mass extinction of pay phones….
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Judaism In The Digital Age, By Way Of Nathan Englander
kaddish.com By Nathan Englander Alfred A. Knopf, 224 pages, $24.95 Religious rituals can seem cumbersome or constricting. It helps to believe that they matter — that they are, in fact, essential to righteousness or redemption. The possibilities of the digital world, by contrast, can seem liberating — a promise of entertainment, distraction, ease and convenience….
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Film & TV ‘Us’ Gives Viewers A Biblical Warning
Jordan Peele’s second film, “Us,” all but demands a second viewing. The box-office-breaking horror flick, while light on its feet, is packed with pop culture signposts, character pay-offs and a script-flipping twist that has audiences lining up for a later showing before the lights come up on the end credits. But one reference that may…
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