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The Way She Was
Among those offended by Barbra Streisand’s use of a four-letter word during her October 9 comeback concert at Madison Square Garden was Rabbi Daniel Lapin, the head of the right-wing advocacy group Toward Tradition. Lapin, who tutored the superstar some two decades ago in preparation for her son’s bar mitzvah, fired off a column last…
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A Gift With Red String Attached
In what The Jerusalem Post called “an unlikely meeting of the minds,” Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres met up with the actor and Kabbalah follower Ashton Kutcher while the two happened to be in Berlin earlier this month — Kutcher, to promote his latest film, “The Guardian,” and Peres, on state business. When the “Punk’d”…
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A Passion For Fashion
The day Liz Goldwyn discovered two burlesque costumes at a New York flea market, a sequined light bulb went off above her head. Though still an undergraduate at the time, Goldwyn, granddaughter of legendary movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, knew a thing or two about dresses; she had helped establish the fashion department at the auction…
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The Scapegoat?
American Jewry looked on with some pleasure last week as ABC’s Diane Sawyer made Mel Gibson squirm with pointed questions about the actor/director’s drunken summertime antisemitic tirade. But just a short while later, it was the Jews’ turn to squirm. Okay, so we’ve established that Jews aren’t responsible for all the wars in the world,…
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Celebrating German Unification With Gusto
Among the 800 guests jammed into Central Park’s Boathouse for the October 3 celebration of the 16th year of German Unity were Christo and his flame-haired wife, Jeanne-Claude, whose February 2005 “The Gates” installation in Central Park split New Yorkers into pro and con factions. They told me that their latest “wrap” oevre is “The…
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Fun With George and Laura
Two years ago, authors Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman made a splash with their book “Yiddish With Dick and Jane,” a romp through the world of WASP propriety peppered with zesty Yiddishisms. Now, in “Yiddish With George and Laura,” Weiner and Davilman have upped the ante. Their subject is no longer the generic American everyman,…
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Actress for Hier
Earlier this year, while already at work on a documentary about Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, Marvin Hier got a call most filmmakers would give their right arms for: It was screen star Nicole Kidman asking if there’s room for her in his latest project. As The Jerusalem Post reported last week, Hier, founder and dean…
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Gentleman’s Agreement
Alongside revelations of sordid text messages to House pages, followers of the Mark Foley scandal learned last week of his longstanding but discreet relationship with dermatologist Layne Nisenbaum, the “Botox king” of Palm Beach, Fla. According to the Palm Beach Post, it was customary for Foley, who only now has come out as gay, to…
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Birthday Bash
“There was so much love in that room, it was overwhelming,” gushed Ruth Gruber, marveling at “all those people coming out at 8:30 in the morning to help celebrate my 95th birthday.” Held at My Most Favorite Dessert Company on West 45th Street, the September 29 simcha was hosted by Doris Schechter, Favorite Dessert founder…
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Four Up, Four Down
On October 3, at the start of the baseball playoffs, Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor of Mathematical Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, ran his mathematical model for baseball games and issued his predictions of the winners: the Yankees, Twins, Dodgers and Padres. By October 9, all four teams had lost. What are…
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Dinner Honors Doctor
Dr. Rania Ogby (a Bedouin beauty) and Avishay Braverman, Jewish history professor, past president of Ben-Gurion University in the Negev and now a member of Israel’s Knesset were both honored at the September 17 American Associates Ben-Gurion “One Vision” gala. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of David Ben-Gurion’s aliya to Israel, and the university’s…
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