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Moving Out
Guss’ Pickles is leaving the Lower East Side, but owner Pat Fairhurst is going home. High rent and a new city parking meter in front of her store is sending Fairhurst and her famous pickle shop — one of two left in the neighborhood, along with The Pickle Guys — to Brooklyn’s Boro Park, where…
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Argentina’s Angels Come to Tel Aviv
Young Israelis’ passion for soap operas is again winning them visitors from the Southern Hemisphere. For the third time since 2003, the cast of a South American telenovela is on its way to Israel to perform for the country’s preteens and teenagers. The stars of “Casi Angeles” (“Almost Angels”), an Argentinean soap opera about a…
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Quick Advice in a Shrink Rap
Godfather Freud aside, the advent of psychotherapy has many Jews to thank. The invention of the therapy party (think speed dating, but with advice-giving gurus) also finds a Jew at the helm. “I always say my shrink is my rabbi,” said author and teacher Susan Shapiro, who, when throwing a party for her debut novel,…
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Cha-cha: From Oy Vey to Olé
The scene is early 1950s New York: Many European Jews were living on the Lower East Side, spending most of their time raising families, creating businesses and dancing to Latin music. Wait, what? That’s right; Jews were some of the earliest supporters of the Latin music craze that swept the country in the late ’40s…
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Happy Days Are Here Again
An Israeli “happiness” expert is bringing his popular Harvard University course to American TV audiences. Starting August 3, Public Broadcasting Service stations across the nation will broadcast “Happiness 101 With Tal Ben-Shahar,” a 90-minute special featuring the Israeli author and Ivy League lecturer as he advises viewers on how to make their lives more pleasurable…
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Holy Tweet: Oh, the Possibilities!
For centuries, visitors to the Old City of Jerusalem have made their way to the Western Wall to offer up their prayers. Recently, performing this sacred Jewish rite has become as easy as downloading an iPhone application, now that the Western Wall has its very own page on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Started by 25-year-old…
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Gone in 60 Seconds…
The case involving one of Israel’s most notorious heists has finally been cracked, and the looted goods, worth millions, are on display for all to see. What was stolen? More than 100 watches and clocks from the collection of Sir David Salomons were taken while on display in Jerusalem at the L.A. Mayer Museum for…
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Jewtoons Take San Francisco
Remember the days of cartoon movies? A time when classics like “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin” ruled the big screen, and before Buzz Lightyear and his “Toy Story” pals came in and crashed the party? While CGI (computer-generated imagery) movies like “Toy Story” paved the way for a new generation of…
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Esti Ginzburg: Model Soldier
One of Israel’s top models is moving from photo shoots to the shooting range. Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Esti Ginzburg was expected to join the Israeli army July 22. The 19-year-old will perform two years of service, spending her first weeks in basic training before transitioning to a specialty. Under a headline reading “Private Esti,”…
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Davis Cup: Advantage, Israel
The Israeli tennis team has advanced to the Davis Cup semifinals for the first time, defeating the Russians at Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv. Harel Levy and Dudi Sela gave Israel a surprising 2-0 lead by winning their respective singles matches. Levi defeated Igor Andreev 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, while Sela, after losing the first…
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Low-Lying, Salt-Heavy Wonder of the World
In the fifth-century BCE, scholars Herodotus and Callimachus created a list of the Seven Wonders of the World. Since then, lists of the seven wonders of the medieval, industrial and even underwater world have popped up, luring tourists around the globe. Hoping to draw attention to the natural world, the New7Wonders Foundation, based in Zurich,…
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