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Never Again, Again
A new book by former attorney general John Ashcroft is raising some eyebrows — not for its content, which details Ashcroft’s career in the years before, during and after the attacks of September 11, 2001, but for its title, “Never Again,” which, to the Jewish ear, sounds more than a little familiar. While the phrase…
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Green Egged On by Ham?
It’s bad enough that a nice Jewish boy like New York Mets outfielder Shawn Green has to measure up against artificially pumped-up steroid-using sluggers. But the Shmooze’s biggest fear is that, with the playoffs under way this week, Green — who sits out games on Yom Kippur regularly — will succumb to the most unkosher…
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Taking New York By Storm, In Song
As the world reeled under the Nazi boot, few knew that such American icons as Superman and Captain America, who were zapping evil Axis powers and spies on comic-book page battlefields, had been created and drawn by Jewish artists. In Kobe, Japan, in 1941, before English had become my new language of speech and dreams,…
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Restaurateur: Logo a No-go
In a corner of Manhattan’s East Village there sits an unassuming little Chinese dumpling restaurant that has had a short but lively two-year existence. In addition to receiving a slew of favorable reviews, the eatery, known as Dumpling Man, has been at the center of not one but two trademark infringement cases. The first was…
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Move Over, Charlton Heston
A musical version of the Moses story enjoyed a brief run at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles during the winter of 2004-2005. But for those who missed it, there is still hope. A DVD version of the show, which is called “The Ten Commandments: The Musical” and stars screen idol Val Kilmer (right), is…
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Mourning In America
In the season premiere of the hit ABC hospital drama “Grey’s Anatomy,” one of the main characters, Cristina, a Jewish-Japanese doctor played by Sandra Oh (left), extols the virtues of sitting shiva in an effort to help one of her fellow surgeons get over the death of her patient-turned-fiancée. Mourning may have been the theme,…
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Jews’ Cruise
Last week, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey released “The Confession,” a memoir of his life in politics and of the romantic relationship he had with Golan Cipel, his Israeli-born homeland security adviser. Cipel, however, has maintained that he himself is straight, that McGreevey sexually harassed him and that the new book is a “pack…
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New York Celebrates the Pickle
An old joke from New York City’s Lower East Side: A woman asks a street-side vendor how much for one of his pickles. A nickel, he replies. “And for this pikele?” she asks hopefully. “This pikele,” he says, “will cost you a nikele.” Both the past and present of the New York pickle were on…
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Shortcuts: Borat’s Hebrew, Mel’s Latest Problem, Rabbi Guns for Rosie
Rumor has it that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat is quite the polyglot. According to an item posted on The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz blog, throughout Cohen’s soon-to-be-released film ‘Borat,’ the character speaks not Kazakh, as one might expect, but Hebrew — even when engaging in antisemitic tirades. Speaking of antisemitic tirades, it’s been nearly two…
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A Blessing for John Paul II
The September 6 opening of “A Blessing to One Another/Pope John Paul II & The Jewish People,” the inspiring exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage/A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, was a remarkable happening for me as a survivor who experienced Poland’s pre-war antisemitism. “If Jewish museums had patron saints,” said museum director David…
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Stars of Yore Face Off in L.A. Feud
The selection of a Muslim activist as the recipient of a Los Angeles human rights award has spurred a war of words between two aging entertainers on the radio waves of L.A. The verbal volley began earlier this month when actor Mike Farrell, B.J. Hunnicut of “M*A*S*H” fame, appeared on behalf of an activist, Dr….
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