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It’s All in the Cards: Poker Ace Plays a Winning Hand
At first blush, Eric Froehlich seems like a Jewish parent’s worst nightmare: Earlier this year, he dropped out of a top university to become a professional poker player. But Froehlich is no ordinary poker player. In June, just a few months after turning 21 and leaving the University of Virginia, Froehlich became the youngest player…
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Jewish Group Honors Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox News, was the guest of honor last week at a gala dinner of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, held at The Plaza Hotel. The council is an umbrella body that coordinates some 60 local New York Jewish organizations and represents them to the…
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Tempest in a Coffee Cup: Rabbi Wins Legal Battle
When Rabbi Israel Steinberg went to New York City’s Nations Café in November 1992, all he wanted was some coffee. Instead he got a 12 1/2-year legal battle. Last week the battle ended when the New York State Division of Human Rights ordered the Nations Café to pay Steinberg $500 compensation for the mental anguish…
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Playwright Hits the ‘Heights’ When Hollywood Calls
Stories of promising writers plucked from obscurity by big-time producers may be the stuff Hollywood fantasy is made of, but — for the fortunate few — life sometimes imitates art. Five years ago, Amy Fox was a 24-year-old playwright with a one-act play being performed off-Broadway. As luck would have it, a favorable New York…
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Fight Film Sucker-punches Max Baer, Jewish Boxing Icon
It’s been a bruising week for “Cinderella Man,” the new Ron Howard boxing drama. First came the disappointing box office showing — a distant fourth in first-weekend revenues. Then, the film’s star, Russell Crowe, allegedly flung a telephone at a New York hotel concierge. All the while, Jewish boxing fans have taken aim at what…
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Broadway Star Mandy Patinkin Finds His Forte: Yiddish
The person responsible for Mandy Patinkin’s Yiddish education was neither a relative nor a Hebrew school teacher. It was legendary theater producer Joseph Papp. In the early 1990s, Papp approached Patinkin — already an acclaimed singer and stage performer — and asked him to sing in Yiddish at a benefit concert for the YIVO Institute…
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Yiddish Journalist Gershon Jacobson, 71
Veteran Yiddish journalist Gershon Jacobson died of heart failure in New York on May 29. He was 71. Jacobson served as the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Algemeiner Journal since its inception in 1972. It is the country’s largest-circulation Yiddish weekly, catering primarily to the Orthodox community. Born in Moscow in 1933, Jacobson began his…
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Murray Friedman, Philly AJCommittee Official
Murray Friedman, one of the Jewish community’s greatest intellectual historians and the longtime regional director of the Philadelphia branch of the American Jewish Committee, died May 20 of amyloydosis at the age of 78. He remained a registered Democrat to the end. Unfortunately for Democratic lawmakers like myself, this fact was merely a deferential nod…
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Putting National Security on the Democratic Agenda
During the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, Rachel Kleinfeld grew furious with the candidates’ rhetoric on national security. Kleinfeld, a scholar of international relations and a Democratic activist, heard some contenders “talking strong security,” she told the Forward, but they “weren’t connecting [those policies] to Democratic values” such as human rights or “equality of opportunity.” Disturbed…
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Draft of Balfour Declaration Up for Bids
The eight men who gathered in July 1917 to draft the Balfour Declaration, making clear the British government’s intention to create a Jewish state in Palestine, reached agreement on the brief document’s wording. But as they were writing out the text, they decided to change one word. While the wording had originally stated that the…
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Star Wars Saga Unfolds on Small Screen — As a Cartoon
About a month ago, Genndy Tartakovsky and his wife strolled past the line that already had formed outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.” As the Tartakovskys got closer to the intergalactic faithful, several faces lit up. Pens were out, and Tartakovsky was asked for his autograph. “I…
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