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Man Who Saved a Million Books Writes One of His Own
Aaron Lansky has spent his 20s, 30s and 40s saving Yiddish books. Now, at 49, he’s written a book of his own. Chockfull of his adventures saving great works of literature from Dumpsters, clueless grandchildren, collapsing buildings and widespread ignorance, “Outwitting History: How One Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Civilization” relates stories…
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Columnist Puts Kosher Cooking on the Front Burner
When Lisa Huriash decided at age 6 that she wanted to become a journalist, she never dreamed that she’d be reporting about cherry kugel. Nonetheless, Huriash’s “Kosher Connection” column, a regular feature in the Food section of South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel, is now a local favorite and is frequently picked up by other newspapers through the…
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Piano Prodigy Realizes Her American Dream at Age 7
By any standard, Alice Burla is an accomplished musician. The pianist, a student at the Juilliard School of Music, has mastered difficult pieces by Beethoven and Chopin, won a national competition in Canada and performed at Carnegie Hall. But if such accomplishments would be a fitting reward for a decade or more of intensive study,…
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Jewish Athletes Put Their Nations on the Map at the Olympics
One of the most indelible images of the Athens Olympics was the Israeli flag being raised for the first time to the strains of “HaTikva,” a song that has been as haunting and evocative of sadness as it has been reminiscent of moments of happiness. On August 25, it was raised for Gal Fridman, a…
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Preparing To Protest As the Republicans Come to Town
Leslie Cagan learned to challenge authority when she was just 5 or 6 years old, as she and her mother joined other fed-up residents of their South Bronx, N.Y., neighborhood in blocking traffic at a dangerous intersection to demand a stoplight. More than five decades later, Cagan, 57, is still challenging authority. This week, the…
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Fiddler on the Hot Seat: Molina & Co. Chat
To the delight of the overflowing audience at the August 15 American Jewish Historical Society-sponsored Dialogue Forum Series at the Center for Jewish History, Alfred Molina, Broadway’s current Tevye, shared Rabbi William Berkowitz’s “hot seat” with “Fiddler on the Roof” composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. Asked how he dealt with playing a role…
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A Novelist Who Wrote His Way Into Peacemaking
For months, Marek Halter, the Polish-born best-selling author and longtime peace activist, has been trying to convince Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat to meet. Though, predictably, the two refused to meet face to face, they both agreed to do something else: Surprisingly, both leaders met with Halter. The son of a printer and a Yiddish…
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Rethinking Wagner in the Operatic Heart of ‘Germania’
In presenting the Cultural Prize, Munich’s highest honor, to Sir Peter Jonas in January, the city’s mayor praised the general director of the 351-year-old Bavarian State Opera for “treating the arts not as an incidental but as a central concern of an enlightened modern society… not only to preserve tradition, but also to locate it…
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Defense Lawyer Helps Hip-Hop Artists Beat Their Raps
When Orthodox philanthropist Charles Kushner was arrested last month in connection with his political fund raising, he quickly retained a lawyer from within his own world of high-powered Orthodox philanthropists: Ben Brafman. Brafman has become well known in the Jewish community for his yearly stint emceeing a New York fund-raising event benefiting settlers in Hebron…
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Kerry or Bush: Who’s the Flip-Flopper?
President Bush has charged his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, with being one great big flip-flopper who cannot make up his mind. He points to two cases. As a U.S. Senator, Kerry voted to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. Now he declares that the war was a great mistake. He also…
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Shul Artifacts Grace Christie’s
actor Edward G. Robinson and artist Ben Shahn gracing its pews, according to Roberta Brandes Gratz, a writer on historic preservation who founded the Eldridge Street Project. Eddie Cantor lived across the street, and the Gershwin family lived at the end of the block. “[People think] the Lower East Side is just something from a…
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