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Keeping Alive a Philanthropic Family Tradition
Even at age 42, Adam Bronfman has the air of perpetual youth to him: He wears a gold hoop earring, and his shock of red hair frequently has a pair of Oakley sunglasses perched on top — even in the dreariest of hotel conference rooms. So it did not feel inconsistent when the last two…
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Saul Bellow: Remembering a Literary Pioneer
I became friends with Saul Bellow in 1960 when I was teaching at Bard College in upstate New York. He lived nearby in a house in Tivoli that became part of the setting of “Herzog,” which he was writing during my time at the college. He would visit my then-wife and me on occasion and…
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Back From Iraq, Marine Aims for Laughs as a Comic
If the young Woody Allen had been a tough guy, he might have been something like David Rosner. A study in seeming contradictions, Rosner is a stand-up comic and a reserve Marine Corps major — a self-described “recovered hypochondriac” who served in the first Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. For the latter, he was…
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Young Jazz Singer Soars by Creating ‘Food for the Soul’
The photograph that adorns the cover of Canadian jazz singer Sophie Milman’s debut album is classic cabaret-glamour fare. In it, the very young, very blonde Milman poses in jazz uniform: the obligatory black dress and copious long-stranded pearls, a sultry lock of hair draped over one eye, her Slavic-model looks tastefully deployed to help album…
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A Mystery: How Can You Write What You Cannot Read?
TORONTO — When Toronto-based mystery writer Howard Engel won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s lifetime achievement award earlier this month, few people were surprised. The 74-year-old Canadian author has an impressive history: He’s been published in 13 languages, and has broken down cultural and literary barriers with his 11 popular novels about private eye Benny…
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Trying To Craft a Winning Message for Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON — These days Senator Hillary Clinton has been sounding more like a Bush administration hawk than like the first lady who drew flak for kissing Yasser Arafat’s wife and endorsing a Palestinian state before the White House did. The Palestinian Authority must “act with dispatch to dismantle the terror operations,” Clinton declared in a…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Chairmen’s Corner: Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean plied their trade with pro-Israel activists this week, speaking for 20 minutes apiece March 14 in Washington at a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s leadership network, a group of heavy hitters. The event wasn’t open to the…
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Countercultural Cabal Lends a Hand to Radio Legend
For more than 40 years, Bob Fass has presided over a program called “Radio Unnameable” on listener-sponsored WBAI-FM in New York. It’s an apt name for the show, which features a genre-defying mix of talk, recorded music, live performance and just about anything else that Fass can patch into a mixing console. Asked to describe…
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Florida Democrat Blazing Her Own Trail on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON —Just two months into her freshman term in Congress, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz already is distinguishing herself from her predecessor and mentor, Peter Deutsch, a former representative. While Deutsch was among the most hawkish congressional Democrats on Middle East issues, Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida’s 20th district, a heavily Jewish swath of Broward County,…
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Monopoly Reborn in Telecom Business
In 1984, the courts made a historic decision in America’s longtime battle to “bust the trusts.” The American Telephone and Telegraph Company was ordered to break up into many small pieces to restore competition in our “free enterprise” society. Now it appears that the monopoly once held by AT&T is being restored — albeit under…
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Groups Indulge in Name-calling
Jewish organizations were guilty of submitting false IRS filings, misusing funds, doling out “outlandish benefits packages” and lying to the government. Herbits, a longtime top aide to WJC president and former beverage baron Edgar Bronfman, was responding to criticisms from unnamed officials at other Jewish organizations. “There are no illegalities in Israel Singer’s behavior, and…
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