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1-2-3 Jews At the Ballgame
In what may have been a baseball first, the Boston Red Sox had no fewer than three Jewish players on the field at once in their August 8 victory over the Texas Rangers. At the top of the game’s ninth inning, Gabe Kapler was in left field, Adam Stern in right and Kevin Youkilis at…
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Wendy Kaufman, Snapple’s pitchwoman, found herself in a tussle with actor-comedian Gary Busey on a recent episode of VH1’s reality show “Celebrity Fit Club.” The flap erupted when Busey, after being knocked out in a boxing workout, gathered his team of famous fatties together for a prayer, which he concluded with the words: “through our…
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Coach Picked, Stereotypes Roll
It was all hugs and smiles last week at the press conference where New York Knicks General Manager Isiah Thomas introduced the team’s new $10 million per year head coach, Larry Brown. Generally the media joined in the fun, hailing the return of Brown, a Brooklyn native who grew up on Long Island idolizing the…
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Rock critic Al Aronowitz, who passed away this week at the age of 77, may not have been a household name, but his mark on the course of music history was nevertheless an indelible one. On August 28, 1964, Aronowitz, the child of an Orthodox butcher from New Jersey, brought together two of the era’s…
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Singer Memoir on CD
The Forward Association (publisher of the Forward) recently released a two-disc recording of Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1966 memoir, “In My Father’s Court” — in Yiddish. Originally serialized in the Yiddish Forward over the course of seven months in 1955, Singer’s reminiscences were published under the pseudonym “Isaac Warshawsky.” The simply told story, the…
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Coach Picked, Stereotypes Roll
It was all hugs and smiles last week at the press conference where New York Knicks General Manager Isiah Thomas introduced the team’s new $10 million per year head coach, Larry Brown. Generally the media joined in the fun, hailing the return of Brown, a Brooklyn native who grew up on Long Island idolizing the…
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Full-bodied Models Firm Up Support for Ad Campaign
Women of the world, unite — and have a bite! A new advertising campaign from the makers of Dove beauty products features women — real women, curvy women, women in all their un-airbrushed, everyday underwear glory — in the name of celebrating a more rounded version of beauty (and selling firming cream). Dubbed the “campaign…
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Columnist: No ‘Easy’ Answer
This week Randy Cohen, known as “The Ethicist” in the pages of The New York Times Magazine, showed that when it comes to Jewish sensibilities, he is an equal opportunity offender. First, in October 2002, Cohen upset Orthodox readers when he advised a letter writer to tear up a contract with an Orthodox male real…
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For Yiddishists, Summer Is A Picnic — At the Cemetery
For most people, a hot weekend in July is best spent on the beach. For Yiddish lovers, it seems, it’s best spent at the cemetery. On a recent Sunday, more than 30 people gathered at the Old Mount Carmel Cemetery in the Glendale section of Queens, where — loaded with sandwiches, sunscreen and “The Penguin…
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Ms. Ali G. Mulls Tribal Rite
Sacha Baron Cohen’s knack for reinvention may be contagious. Earlier this month, Isla Fisher, the Ali G. creator’s actress fiancée, announced that she’s considering converting to Judaism. The sexy redhead, who was born in Oman to Scottish parents who later relocated to Australia, told Britain’s “This Morning” television show that, not having grown up with…
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John King, a generally solid political reporter on CNN, goofed during a July 14 broadcast when joked about the facial hair recently being sported by Senator Joseph Lieberman. Speaking on air to fellow CNN reporter Ed Henry, King quipped, “Maybe tomorrow you could follow an investigative report on that new Joe Lieberman look.” It turns…
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