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Old Wine, New… Martini Glass?
Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, a three-tiered restaurant, cocktail lounge and performance space that opened on New York’s Lower East Side earlier this month, is a peculiar mix of Jewish and Latin cultures — much like the neighborhood it calls home. And it’s in the spirit of pluralism that the club’s founders, brothers Phil and…
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Peres at NYU, Courtesy of MTV
Adozen men wearing black suits and secret service earpieces loitered next to the front door of a New York University lecture hall. A pack of gum with Hebrew lettering on it lay on a desktop next to a camcorder stand. Clearly there was something out of the ordinary going on in Professor Caroleen Marji’s International…
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Mixing Guilt and Pleasure
If you want to fall into a different sort of GAP, take a look at a new literary journal, Guilt & Pleasure. Soon to be published by Reboot — a New York City-based nonprofit that promotes discussion on issues of Jewish identity — the new quarterly will focus on “identity, community, and meaning” in America….
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Following in Dad’s Footsteps
When she was a child, Jennifer Miller often was late for school, but her excuse was about as good as they come: Her ride was involved in high-level diplomatic talks. Miller, 25, is the daughter of Aaron Miller, longtime adviser to the State Department on Arab-Israeli affairs. She grew up in a hothouse of Middle…
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News-hungry Inmate Takes Prison to Court
In the world of news, last week’s headlines are old hat — as anyone who has received a late paper can attest. But some can handle the aggravation better than others. One newspaper reader, a former inmate of the federal prison at Fort Dix, N.J., was so frustrated by his papers’ consistent lateness, he was…
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SHORTCUTS
Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, who died in 1994, used to give his followers coins. Some thought that these coins were imbued with mystical power. Apparently, those who’ve treasured them stretch far beyond the Lubavitch community. Curtis Sliwa, a New York radio personality best known as the founder of the Guardian Angels vigilante group, has been…
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Fading Rock Landmark Faces Last Hurrah
The stage lights are in danger of going black at the legendary New York rock club where The Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads got their start. Widely held to be the birthplace of punk, CBGB occupies the ground floor and basement of a homeless shelter on the Bowery. But now, the Bowery Residents’ Committee…
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Jewish mothers can be meddlers, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t have good taste. Jeremy Piven, who plays the devilish but lovable Ari Gold on the hit HBO series “Entourage,” appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on June 16. His mother tuned in and liked what she saw. “Who was that attractive…
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New York Pol’s Ad Is Too Sly for Fox
Brian Ellner, an openly gay candidate for a top New York City office, made news twice in one week: first, when his provocative new advertisement made it on the air, and then when it didn’t. The 30-second ad, first released August 29, features Ellner, a candidate for Manhattan borough president, posed with his partner, Simon…
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The natives often get testy when a movie set rolls into town, but the residents of Budapest seem to have grown unusually so, according to a recent item in the New York Post. Never mind the random car towings and traffic jams, said residents of the Hungarian capital, where Steven Spielberg is filming scenes for…
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Celebrity Stylist Goes National
A-list celebrities are among the regulars at Yuki Sharoni’s Beverly Hills salon. But well before the likes of Jessica Alba and Demi Moore found their way into his chair, Sharoni attended to a very different sort of hot shot. As a young soldier in the Israeli army, Sharoni would secretly coif his commanding officer’s curly…
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