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Yiddish Sound Effects
The Shmooze is always struck when Yiddish words come up in unlikely places, but we were particularly surprised by this latest discovery: the word “hazarai” attached to a new sound-effects box that has become a top-seller in the world of rock music. The Stereo Memory Man With Hazarai is a guitar-effects pedal made by Electro-Harmonix,…
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Young Israeli Windsurfer Sails to Olympics
Israel’s only Olympic gold medalist, Gal Fridman, will not go to Beijing this summer to defend his 2004 windsurfing title. Instead, the country’s lone male sailboarder will be 21-year-old Shahar Zubari of Eilat, who secured the right to represent Israel by capturing a bronze medal in January in this year’s World Championships in New Zealand….
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Passover Cracker Crisis Looms
Tam Tam lovers will be sorely disappointed when they hit the grocery stores to stock up on their favorite kosher-for-Passover crackers. Manischewitz will not be producing the hexagon-shaped matzo snacks this year, due to construction delays at its new digs in Newark, N.J., the New Jersey Jewish News reported. At first, The Shmooze was skeptical…
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Oscar Winners Tell Their Story
And the Oscar goes to… “The Counterfeiters.” This Austrian Holocaust tale beat out the Israeli entry “Beaufort” and three other movies on February 24 for the Academy Award in the best foreign language film category. “The Counterfeiters” is based on the published memoir of 90-year-old survivor Adolph Burger, who consulted on the script and is…
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Coach Makes Slam Dunk
Wunderkind Bruce Pearl, the second-fastest National Collegiate Athletic Association coach in history to win 300 games, is also college basketball’s court jester and most boisterous booster. A grandson of Jewish immigrants from Sharon, Mass., Pearl, 47, has been bringing to bear his own combination of free-spirited offense and suffocating defense wherever he goes, most recently…
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Showdown in the Kitchen
There is such a thing as a free lunch. At least there was at the Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off. On Wednesday, February 27, at the Financial District Hilton in Manhattan, six finalists vied for the coveted title of 2008 National Champion, an honor that comes along with a $25,000 kitchen makeover — and the far more…
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‘Top Chef’ Takes On Kosher Kitchen
Kosher-keeping fans of “Top Chef” will be able to savor first-hand the culinary creations of one of the TV show’s recent stars. Hung Huynh, who won season three of the Bravo reality-show competition, has been named executive chef of Solo, a Mediterranean-Asian fusion kosher restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. Huynh was born in Vietnam and studied…
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Origami in Israel
Origami, the ancient Japanese art of folding paper, is no longer confined to the borders of Japan. Today, it is practiced by children and adults around the world. In Israel, this delicate art form has become popular thanks in part to Miri Golan, the founder of the Israeli Origami Center. Along with her partner and…
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2nd Ave Deli Cooks Up Controversy
An enthusiastic review by New York Times food critic Frank Bruni of the newly reopened 2nd Ave Deli last week no doubt triggered hunger pangs, but it also set into motion something more unexpected: a spirited discussion about whether a restaurant open on the Sabbath can still be considered kosher. After a correspondent posed the…
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Dems Name Mordecai Their Donkey
Just in time for Purim, the Democratic National Convention Committee this week announced the official mascot for the 2008 convention: a donkey named Mordecai. The mascot was chosen by a panel of judges at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. Mordecai and his handler, 12-year-old Sophie Herzog of Fairplay, Colo., will take part in…
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Final Frontier Calls to Nimoy
The new “Star Trek” film’s trailer shows a vast shipyard where the U.S.S. Enterprise is under construction, as a voice intones that famous phrase, “Space, the final frontier….” Ah, that deep, rich voice. It’s unmistakable. Spock is back. In 2002, Leonard Nimoy, now 76, said he was retiring from acting to focus on photography. But…
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