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Libya Invites the Jews Who Fled To Come Home
“Saturday Night Live” recently had some fun with the news that Libya is inviting Jews to return to the country where they were persecuted and killed before being forced to flee more than 30 years ago. SNL Weekend Update anchor Jimmy Fallon — doing his best Woody Allen impression, calling himself a “spokesman for Jews”…
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Making the Very Model of a Modern Yiddish Musical
At some point, most readers have probably met a “Savoyard,” one of the ardent admirers of William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan who nickname themselves after the famous Savoy theater in London where the dynamic duo staged their famous comic operettas, “The Mikado,” “H.M.S. Pinafore” and many others. But, undoubtedly, no reader has ever met…
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Boys May Be Boys, But Boys’ Town Makes Men
Brother Anthony D’Amato, executive vice president of Boys’ Town of Italy, jokingly told the multinational, multiethnic black-tie crowd at the April 2 “Ball of the Year” at the Waldorf-Astoria: “If you have qualms about eating meat on Friday… [rest assured] we were given special dispensation by the archdiocese.” Founded in 1945, the Rome-based Boys’ Town…
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Taking a Step Ahead for Labor in Union-made Shoes
Two decades after a brush with prison turned his loud life into a quiet suburban existence, a former political crusader is suddenly muscling his way back into activism, albeit in a new arena: the sneaker business. On May 1, “May Day,” Adam C. Neiman, 47, plans to strike a blow for union labor in the…
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From Under the Chupah to Over the Ark, and Other Ottoman Tales
Ömer Öhnon, Turkey’s consul general in New York, was the keynote speaker at the March 31 launch of the “Jewish Costumes in the Ottoman Empire” exhibit at the Center for Jewish History. Curated by Sylvio Ovadya, the exhibit has been sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation, the Sephardic House with the Jewish Community of Turkey…
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Motorcycle Minyan Seeks a Rabbi Who Was Born To Be Wild
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A newly formed minyan in this South Florida community is looking for a rabbi. Applicants must be enthusiastic about working outside a traditional synagogue setting — way outside. On the open road. The King David Bikers, a motorcycle minyan formed just six weeks ago, has already attracted more than a dozen…
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Turning Gags Into a Gig: The White House Funny Man
When Mark Katz graduated from Cornell University in 1986, he made a narrow escape from law school—“the Vietnam of my generation, a quagmire where promising young lives were needlessly wasted”—and instead decided to pursue a risky and circuitous career as a writer and humorist. It was a decision that finally paid off in the spring…
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The Boomerang Effects of Acts of Kindness
The spectacular Park Avenue apartment of Island Def Jam Music Group chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid and his wife, Erica Reid, was the setting on March 18 for The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s spring benefit. The event raised $250,000 to support such projects as its new Ethnic Congressional Caucus in Washington, D.C., and the Shared Dreams…
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Where the Power Elite Eat, a Hostess With Chutzpah
On Passover a number of years ago, a regular diner at Elaine’s restaurant in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side popped his head into the famous eatery, surprised to find it open on the Jewish holiday. The regular asked the owner, Elaine Kaufman, why her restaurant wasn’t closed. “Why is this night different…
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‘The Passion of the Christ’ Fuels Antisemitism — on ‘South Park’
The Mel Gibson Fan Club’s president recently fielded a call from an irate viewer of “The Passion of the Christ” who disliked the movie. “Sir,” the indignant fan club president said, “apparently you don’t understand what Mel Gibson was trying to do. He was trying to express — through cinema — the horror and filthiness…
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Lost in Translation: ‘The Ghost Is Eager, But the Meat Is Tender’
The March 15 reception for the Institute of International Education’s launch of its Ruth Gruber Chair of the Scholar Rescue Fund was hosted by Patti Kenner at her Park Avenue home. Recapping the institute’s rescue work in the 1930s, Scholar Fund chairman Henry Jarecki said that out of 8,000 applicants, they were only able to…
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