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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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How To Celebrate Passover On a $30,000 Budget
This Passover season, an increasing number of Jews will not be gathered around Bubbe’s dining room table for the first Seder. Instead, they will be at luxurious resorts, from Aruba to the Austrian Alps; some may even be going on an African safari. The rest of the travel industry may be flat, but Passover packages…
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LISTEN: A Beautiful Long Lost Work By Igor Stravinsky
Starting today, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will begin a five day performance run one of the all time great “lost works” of music – Igor Stravinsky’s “Chant Funebre” (Funeral Song). The piece, a short orchestral work, was written in 1908 on the occasion of the death of Stravinsky’s mentor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. As the story goes,…
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Remember Don Rickles With 7 Of His Greatest Screen Appearances
Don Rickles, famous insult comic, passed away on April 6 from kidney failure. He was 90 years old. Mourning is a serious business, so it likely wouldn’t have been Rickles’s favorite activity. In honor of his almost-relentless preference for humor, remember his life through seven of his greatest comedic moments, below. 1) Surprising Frank Sinatra…
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’S-Town,’ New Podcast From Makers Of ‘Serial,’ Demolishes Download Records
“S-Town,” the newly released podcast from Serial Productions, an outfit led by the creators of “Serial” and “This American Life,” has shattered previous podcast download records. As The New York Times reported, “S-Town” was downloaded 16 million times in its first week of release. The first season of “Serial” reached 16 million downloads after eight…
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Why That Catastrophic Pepsi Ad Was Actually A Resounding Success
Pepsi recently announced that it has pulled their Kendall Jenner advertisement (it was just as much an advertisement for her as it was for Pepsi) and have issued an apology, stating “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize. We did not…
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The Secret Jewish History Of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers
The Smithsonian-displayed pair of Dorothy’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” — the most magical, powerful, and fashion-forward footwear in film history — is about to retreat behind the wizard’s curtain (sorry) through 2018. There, they will undergo a comprehensive, largely crowd-funded restoration, after which they’ll return to the National Museum of American History….
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Jared Kushner Hires Chief ‘Get Out’ Publicist
Jared Kushner, in his ever-expanding White House role, has recently been charged with leading the newly-created Office of American Innovation, intended to develop and implement a plan for overhauling the structure of the federal government. Now, he’s hired the top public relations executive from the low-budget horror film producers Blumhouse, who produced the recent success…
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Meet The Holocaust Survivor Who Lives With 7,000 Pieces Of Anti-Semitic Propaganda
Arthur Langerman was born in Antwerp in 1942. His childhood, like that of every European Jew born in that period, was defined by the bloody reverberations of that continent’s anti-Semitism. Two years after his birth, his parents were deported to Auschwitz, and he was placed in an orphanage. His father died in the camp, but…
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Beyond Grief, Ariel Levy Faces The Future
It was a snowmelt day in downtown Manhattan. Water dripped from the tops of buildings, accompanied by the occasional falling block of ice, and yelps arose from the hatless dripped-upon. Yet Ariel Levy, sitting in an airy Chelsea cafe, wearing a gray sweater dotted with bright winks of watermelon — a seasonable garment with unseasonable…
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Julie Roginsky’s Lawyers Ask New York Human Rights Commission To Investigate Fox News
Lawyers for Julie Roginsky, the Russian-Jewish Fox News contributor who yesterday filed a sexual harassment suit against the network,its former Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes and current co-president Bill Shine, have filed letters with the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the New York City Corporation Counsel requesting the two city government entities…
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Is Poetry After Idlib Barbaric?
On December 19th, during the final death throes of the city of Aleppo, I wrote the following words, “What do we mean when we say “never again?” These days, do we mean anything at all? Perhaps when the phrase was coined in 1961 by filmmaker Erwin Leiser in his Holocaust documentary, “Mein Kampf,” we might…
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