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Theater Producer Brings ‘Tradition’ Back to Broadway
“This is a shande,” said veteran producer Stewart Lane when he realized his oldest daughter had never seen a live production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” The classic tale of a Ukrainian Jewish shtetl battered by revolution and modernity, “Fiddler” is a musical theater icon — and so is Lane. For the past 25 years…
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A Box Full of Bad Luck: Haunted Wine Cabinet Goes to Highest Bidder
The Internet auction house eBay recently added a new item among the steak knives and vacuum cleaners normally up for sale: a dybbuk-haunted wine cabinet. Earlier this week, a small wooden wine cabinet with the Shema, the Hebrew prayer, carved on the inside was auctioned off on eBay. The cabinet might have looked like hundreds…
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Playwright Examines Mae West’s Legal Dramas
She was the queen of innuendo. With her slinky walk, hourglass figure and sassy turn of phrase, Mae West was once Broadway’s and Hollywood’s grandest sex icon. She was also among the most persecuted. The New York police department raided the platinum blonde’s shows, threw her in jail and leveled tremendous fines against her. Why?…
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Returning to the Scene of the Crime, Camera in Hand
Gleefully puffing on a cigarette while telling Jewish jokes, Marceline Loridan-Ivens radiates a vivacious, youthful presence. But she did not come to New York simply to crack jokes. This 75-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, with a will as fiery as her red hair, came to the city recently from her home in Paris to introduce the…
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New Play About Crown Heights Blames Jews for Deadly Riots
A play blaming Jews for the Crown Heights riots of 1991 has opened at a new theater on West 42nd Street that was built in part with a tax-exempt, multimillion-dollar city bond. The play, called “Crown Heights,” portrays the murder of chasidic scholar Yankel Rosenbaum as a tragic accident in a fight in which Jews…
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Party Faithful Raise Their Glasses for Bush’s State of the Union
Marc Melzer, a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, was in his apartment with a few friends last Tuesday night, watching President Bush’s State of the Union address. The president inveighed against rogue states that harbored terrorists. These states, the president said, could supply terrorists with “nukular weapons.” Suddenly the room went wild. More…
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Radio Rabbi Creates Community Over the Airwaves
LONDON — Rabbi Lionel Blue is arguably the most popular Jew in the United Kingdom. He is funny and irreverent and considered by some to be an iconoclast. Cherub-faced rabbis who share recipes, pen travel books and yuk it up onstage in stand-up routines, after all, are few and far between. But mainly, Blue owes…
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Bringing Spanish Literature to Life — in English
Edith Grossman has long played Sancho Panza to Gabriel García Márquez’s Don Quixote. For the past 15 years or so, Grossman has been Márquez’s translator — turning his magical-realist Colombian novels into straightforward, lyrical English. Now Grossman is also Sancho Panza to the original Don Quixote. Anyone who has browsed through their local Barnes &…
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Family Recipes Get Put to the Test in the Chicken Soup Challenge
Think that the golden chicken broth that your mother fed you when you were sick is the greatest panacea in the world? The most delicious? The most salubrious? Prove it. On January 8 the National Jewish Outreach Program announced its Chicken Soup Challenge, a national contest to find the best chicken soup in America (beside…
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Transforming Tragedies Into Memorable Memorials
One of the defining characteristics of Michael Arad’s winning design for the World Trade Center memorial is the empty space in the concave footprints of the twin towers, symbols used to conjure up memories of what was destroyed and cannot be replaced. The 34-year-old Israeli’s concept is reminiscent of two other recent memorials, both designed…
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Nazi Leader’s Boat for Sale in Egypt
The yacht that formerly belonged to Nazi Hermann Goering is up for sale in Egypt. German boat dealer Christopher Brunner-Schwer told Der Spiegel magazine that he hopes to make a fortune selling the boat, posted for sale by the American widow of an Egyptian oil agent. “Arabs like the boat’s history,” he said, “and that…
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