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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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An Immigrant’s Life, Part 2
In 1906, Nasye Frug wrote to the Forverts about her life as a new wife and recent immigrant. Even before receiving unhelpful wedding gifts, she had realized that the Goldene Medina of the New World was not turning out to be quite the life she had imagined. Writing about her childhood in the Old Country…
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Haman, LDS Church in Rehab Shock
[ ![][2]][2] UPDATE The man whose three-cornered hat inspired millions of delicious cookies, is in rehab. Haman the Agagite was spotted Monday checking into the Betty Ford Center to be treated for his longstanding addiction to anti-Semitism. He traveled from Persia, and through millennia, to seek help at the famed addiction treatment center in Rancho…
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Weaponizing Lieberman; Keeping Up With the Shalits; Juicing Jews
<img src=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/forward-com/id351434716″ alt=””> In a special mid-week Backward podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Dan Friedman and Tony Weiss about Israel’s recent threat to launch Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman into Iranian airspace. Then, the group turns to reported familial strife in the Shalit household, just months after imprisoned IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was released by…
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Preemptive Lieberman Launch?
[ ![][2]][2] The threat of another Middle East conflagration reached new heights as Israel cranked up its rhetoric, threatening to send Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. “Israel does not seek war, but the security of our people is paramount,” said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel’s prime minister. “We will not…
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Meet the ‘Micro Mechitzah’
[ ![][2]][2] Driven by a rising number of complaints about immodesty in public spaces, a number of B’nai Brak firms have launched competing lines of mechitzahs. “People want to feel as safe from immodesty outside of shul as they do inside,” said Shalom Shalomov of SegReg8. “Our micro mechitzahs can be used at the beach,…
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Talking Comics With Diane Noomin
Pioneer of women’s comics Diane Noomin talks to Michael Kaminer about Wimmen’s Comix, Twisted Sister and her new book, “Glitz-2-Go.” The many and varied adventures of Didi Glitz — the book’s central character and Noomin’s comic alter ego of several decades — both delight and instruct. Noomin uses Didi to combine the personal and the…
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An Immigrant’s Life, Told Graphically
In 1906, Nasye Frug wrote to the Forverts about her life as a new wife and recent immigrant. Even before receiving unhelpful wedding gifts, she had realized that the Goldene Medina of the New World was not turning out to be quite the life she had imagined. Writing about her childhood in the Old Country…
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Nudge, Nudge. Wink, Wink.
Charles Krauthamer of Teaneck, N.J. (not to be confused with the Washington columnist of the same name), writes to ask: “A word used in Israel to mean ‘to pester’ is l’najez. I always assumed that it came from the Yiddish word ‘nudge’ until I was told that it came from Arabic. Can you help?” The…
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Books Author Blog: Finding My Religion
Earlier this week, Michelle Haimoff discussed her unlikely in-laws and having immigrant parents, baby boomers, and parental expectations. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: I went to a…
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How ‘Eichlers’ Brought Design to Suburbia
In the spring of 2011, Adam and Justine Amdur were heartbroken over having to give up their home in Marin County’s Terra Linda, just north of San Francisco. The sale had nothing to do with the sustained economic downturn or the depressed housing market plaguing the nation. In fact, as spring house sales get under…
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Books The Many Sides of Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman By Shulamit Volkov Yale University Press, 256 pages, $25.00 The German Jewish community of the late 19th century found itself in a curious situation. On the one hand, German unification in 1871 weakened opposition to Jewish emancipation, and Jews demonstrated their willingness to integrate into German society and culture. At…
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