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‘Wedding’ Test: Pass or Fail
From Jacob passing as Esau in order to steal Isaac’s blessing to Moses’ (unwitting) passing as an Egyptian in order to set the Exodus into motion, Jews have long been forced to pass as members of the dominant culture to succeed — or, even, to survive. History, from the Inquisition’s Conversos to the serial de-Judaizing…
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Funny, He Doesn’t Look Amish
Team Madison lost the scavenger hunt on the July 5 episode of the NBC reality show “I Want To Be a Hilton” — but not before encountering what they mistakenly thought to be an Amish man in a mobile home. “We walked up to these two ‘Amish men’ and asked if they could help us…
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Sinatra Bio Explores Icon’s Jewish Connections
Frank Sinatra may have been one of America’s most famous Italian Catholics, but he kept the Jewish people close to his heart. For years, the Hollywood icon wore a small mezuzah — the encased prayer scroll traditionally hung on the doorposts of Jewish homes — around his neck. The pendant was a gift from Mrs….
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Spielberg Shooting Mossad Film, Media Smells Blood
Audiences have been flocking to Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds” since last month, but some media eyes are already trained on his next film — and the possibility that it could anger Jewish and Israeli audiences. The still untitled film will tell the story of a squad of Mossad hit men ordered to hunt…
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The Thing: Back in the Closet?
Three years ago, “The Thing” — Marvel Comics’s orange-hued, stony-skinned, 500-pound member of the Fantastic Four — revealed that before mutating into a superhero, he was Benjamin Jacob Grimm, a Jew from the Lower East Side (Fantastic Four, Number 56, “Remembrance of Things Past”). But if you were expecting The Thing to revel in his…
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LET ’EM ROCK
Though it had to wait a bit before going live, a Web site devoted to the intersection of Jewish culture and rock ’n’ roll has arrived. Originally called “The Jewish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” until a lawsuit from the “real” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located in Cleveland, prompted reconsideration, Jewsrock.org is…
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On Broadway, Bearing Witness to a Survivor’s Story
“To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as creating one,” reflects actor Sir Antony Sher, in his latest role as renowned 20th-century writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. A scientist as well as a writer, Levi lived out his post-Auschwitz life as a head chemist at a paint factory in Turin, Italy, while…
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Giving Back
When Lenny Krayzelburg first arrived in the United States, he was a teenager with an imperfect command of English. Though already a serious swimmer — he was first spotted by coaches in his native Odessa at the age of 9 — he was, by his own estimation, “only average.” Los Angeles’s Westside JCC helped change…
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Gottesman Wins NEA Fellowship
Beyle Schaechter Gottesman, a Yiddish singer, songwriter and poet, received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. This is the first time that a Yiddish writer or singer has received this honor. The fellowship includes an award of $20,000, a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and a performance.
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To Fight Hunger, Musician Starts Hunger Strike
A New York-based musician who played at the dedication of the Children’s Memorial Garden at the Museum of Jewish Heritage started a hunger strike at midnight on June 27, vowing not to eat until a major record label signs him. Rocco, whose “Gardens of Imagination” piece from his debut album, “A Walk With Rocco,” played…
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Forward Picks Up Seven Journalism Awards
The Forward won seven 2004 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish journalism. The awards were announced June 23 in Boston, at the annual meeting of the American Jewish Press Association. Editor J.J. Goldberg took top honors in editorial writing, with his December 10, 2004, piece, “Hanukkah, Forever New.” The Forward’s annual Genetics supplement snagged…
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