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Bolton Talks Tough At Rabin Center Gala
BOLTON A HIT AT AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER FUNDRAISER “Why are we Americans so disliked in the world?” Larry King queried John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and keynote speaker at the November 5 gala of the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center at Cipriani 42nd Street. “Because they don’t like…
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On Making Nice
TO ‘AFLAC’ CREATOR LINDA KAPLAN THALER, “NICE” IS A FOUR LETTER WORD “There’s enough estrogen at our place to make even Arnold Schwarzenegger ovulate,” said Linda Kaplan Thaler, CEO and chief creative officer of The Kaplan Thaler Group, Ltd. She was the featured speaker at The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York October 30 symposium,…
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Bond’s Semitic Villains
Much of the publicity surrounding the recently released film “Casino Royale,” the 21st in the 007 franchise, has dwelt on the new, blond-haired James Bond, Daniel Craig. The actor is no stranger to the spy world; he played a Mossad agent in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich.” The notion of a Jew with a license to kill,…
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A Diva’s Life: Of High Notes And Low
At 77, opera legend Beverly Sills (née Bubbles Silverman) is still a dynamo with enormous energy. Her famous voice may not be heard much publicly anymore, but her legacy as both singer and opera house administrator (she has headed both the New York City Opera and the Met) is enormous. This week, she is the…
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Publisher’s Credo: Heads Will Roll
Last Monday, News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch announced that he was pulling the plug on O.J. Simpson’s hypothetical murder tale, “If I Did It,” and on the television interview that was to accompany it. Though many both inside and outside the company breathed a sigh of relief, some were left wondering how the misbegotten project…
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Top Kazakh Rabbi: In My Country There’s No Problem
In the fictional version of Kazakhstan in the hit movie “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the only Jews in the country are larger-than-life caricatures that get trotted out for a ceremonial “Running of the Jew.” In the real Kazakhstan, the top rabbi, Menachem Mendel Gershowitz, has never been…
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Brandeis Gets Fifteen More Minutes
Tuesday marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Louis Brandeis, and so in honor of the milestone, the university that bears his name was gifted a most unusual portrait of the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice. Andy Warhol’s “Louis Brandeis,” which the artist created as part of a series called “Ten Portraits of Jews…
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Rival Rabbi Remembers Red
Rabbi Jonathan Maltzman has been an unabashed Philadelphia 76ers fan for more than four decades, ever since his father, Rabbi Marshall Maltzman, brought home the team’s coach — and one of the greatest Jewish basketball players of all time — Dolph Schayes, for a Passover Seder. At the time, Sixers-Celtics was one of the fiercest…
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Falafel Ball
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, dreamed of building a Jewish state in Palestine. Larry Baras, the owner of a specialty baking company in Boston, dreams of building a baseball league in Israel. Come next summer, Baras’s dream may become just as real as Herzl’s. The Israel Baseball League is slated to be a…
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Spring Line For Hitler
A couple of British fashion designers have discovered a new muse: Adolf Hitler. At Alexander McQueen’s latest show, his McQ line featured leather jackets and vests adorned with Nazi eagles and the Iron Cross. Voyage, another London-based label, took matters a step further: The dresses in its new line, Year 0, featured foot-high swastikas. Neither…
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Trumped
A GRACIOUS DONALD “TRUMPS” AT ARMORY SHOW A meticulously groomed with not-a-hair-out-of-place mega-buck mogul Donald Trump — sporting a shimmering gold tie and with stunning wife Melania by his side — willingly posed for photographers and guests at the October 19 party for the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering preview of the Haughton International Fine Art…
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